Ralph Sanford
Date of birth: 1899-05-20
Place of birth: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ralph Dayton Sanford
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ralph Sanford (May 21, 1899 – June 20, 1963) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 200 films between 1930 and 1960, mostly bit parts or supporting roles. Sanford frequently appeared in Westerns and often portrayed "tough guys". He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and died in Los Angeles, California.
Movie Credits
Grounds for Murder
1930-09-11
A husband becomes infuriated when his wife and household staff abandon him as a result of their fixa
Rogue River
1951-02-15
The story of Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge. A $70,000 windf
Count the Hours!
1953-04-01
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
Who's a Dummy?
1941-11-28
Mrs. Errol, rehearsing for a play but keeping it a secret from Leon, forces him to take a taxi, as s
Union Station
1950-10-04
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station.
They Made Me a Killer
1946-05-03
A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder
Rancho Notorious
1952-04-10
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, A
Danger Zone
1951-04-20
A San Francisco man is paid to bid on a saxophone and escort a woman to a yacht party.
Missing Women
1951-02-23
A woman becomes desperate to find a pair of car thieves after her husband -- while on their honeymoo
Submarine Alert
1943-06-28
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an
Sioux City Sue
1946-11-21
A Hollywood scout averts disaster for a singing cowboy she has misled.
So You Want to Move
1950-08-19
Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.
Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
1945-03-15
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to
In the Dough
1933-11-15
A cafeteria owner has problems with gangsters and gets more trouble by hiring 'Fatty' Arbuckle and c
Wilson
1944-08-01
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post
Minesweeper
1943-11-10
A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II b
River of No Return
1954-04-30
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged hu
Hi-Jacked
1950-07-07
A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involveme
Men of the Timberland
1941-05-06
Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954-11-18
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
Springfield Rifle
1952-10-22
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go
Rhythm Inn
1951-02-11
A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an a
No Hands on the Clock
1941-12-01
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
Quiet, Please
1939-07-01
A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.
Kissing Time
1933-12-16
An American woman visits a small South American town where she quickly falls for a charming lieutena
It's a Joke, Son!
1947-01-15
Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
1945-01-19
A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
What Price Pants
1931-08-21
The vaudeville comedians Smith and Dale star in a clever satire on Prohibition and all its illegal s
Fort Defiance
1951-10-09
It's just after the Civil War and Ben Shelby arrives looking for Johnny Tallon whom he plans to kill
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946-12-25
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return
Undercover Agent
1939-04-19
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
Sea Racketeers
1937-08-20
J. Carrol Naish plays a slimy villain again; this time he's running a casino on a ship and smuggling
I Live on Danger
1942-06-16
A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
Wildcat
1942-09-03
Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person wh
The Patient in Room 18
1938-01-08
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warn
Kentucky Jubilee
1951-05-18
A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he
Aerial Gunner
1943-03-20
Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
A Night for Crime
1943-02-18
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fas
Smashing the Money Ring
1939-10-21
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in
Alaska Highway
1943-06-24
Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway
Girls on Probation
1938-10-22
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939-02-17
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from
Dodge City
1939-04-08
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a r
Kid Nightingale
1939-11-04
A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees t
High Powered
1945-02-27
Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in wh
Carolina Moon
1940-07-14
A singing cowboy and his sidekick encounter misunderstandings and rodeo havoc as they try and save a
That Brennan Girl
1946-12-23
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hus
In the Good Old Summertime
1949-07-29
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an
The Big Country
1958-09-30
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud
Linda, Be Good
1947-11-07
A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.
I Was a Burlesque Queen
1953-07-13
1947 film "Linda, Be Good" with added 3-D scenes with chorus girls.
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
1939-08-12
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
French Leave
1948-04-10
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles
There Goes Kelly
1945-02-16
Musical turned murder mystery set at a radio station.
While the Cat's Away
1936-01-04
Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home.
Gaucho Serenade
1940-05-09
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in
Torpedo Alley
1953-12-25
After carrier pilot Lt Bingham is rescued at sea by a submarine when he crashes, he applies for subm
Copacabana
1947-05-30
A talent agent sells his girlfriend to a nightclub – as two separate acts. The deception and constan
Friendly Persuasion
1956-10-30
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940-08-30
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash man
East of the River
1940-11-09
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing co
They Drive by Night
1940-07-26
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck b
The Heiress
1949-10-06
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end
Cross-Country Romance
1940-07-12
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940-08-16
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has s
Champion
1949-04-09
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who help
The Glass Menagerie
1950-09-28
An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of h
Let's Make It Legal
1951-10-31
A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.
The Damned Don't Cry
1950-05-13
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Never Say Goodbye
1946-11-09
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very un
Web of Danger
1947-06-10
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew work
Lucky Legs
1942-10-01
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Pro
Up In Smoke
1957-12-22
In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
1941-03-06
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.
My Pal Trigger
1946-07-10
Gabby doesn't want to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When Sovereign and Roy's hors
Four Mothers
1941-01-04
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
Down in San Diego
1941-08-01
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego,
Come on Danger
1942-06-05
When a woman turns outlaw, she is suspected of murder.
Beginning of the End
1957-06-28
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a
Mystery of the Riverboat
1944-10-24
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over
The Forty-Niners
1954-07-30
1849 California and the Gold Boom. Marshal Sam Nelson goes under cover to find out the identity of a
Shotgun
1955-04-23
Clay Hardin, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is about to turn in his badge and take the job as the territory'
The Oregon Trail
1959-08-31
In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He h
Blonde Inspiration
1941-02-07
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Lost in a Harem
1944-11-08
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic unc
Obliging Young Lady
1942-04-01
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divor
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
1944-03-07
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various way
Tear Gas Squad
1940-05-04
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Take It or Leave It
1944-07-17
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant
Salt Water Daffy
1933-09-16
In this comedic short, two screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.
Footsteps in the Night
1957-04-14
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
So You Think You're Not Guilty
1950-04-15
Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setba
Appointment with Danger
1950-04-07
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to ar
Blondes at Work
1938-02-05
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself a
No Place for a Lady
1943-02-11
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge,
Father's Wild Game
1950-12-03
The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
1948-09-19
Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
If I Were King
1938-09-28
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his
So You Want to Be in Pictures
1947-06-07
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand
High Explosive
1943-03-27
Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchell
Sea Tiger
1952-07-27
Murder ensues when owners and hired help contrive against each other to obtain diamonds and gold ing
Two Sisters from Boston
1946-06-06
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New
Rhubarb
1951-08-29
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. The
Blondie Goes Latin
1941-02-27
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the femal
The Policy Girl
1934-08-11
An insurance salesman persuades his sister to help him meet a radio star so he can sell the celebrit
Torpedo Boat
1942-01-24
Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a light
Maisie Goes to Reno
1944-08-15
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
Meet the Stewarts
1942-05-28
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
The Radio Murder Mystery
1933-03-06
This short, introduced and closed by Louis Sobol, features Richard Gordon as ‘Sherlock Holmes of the
Let's Live Again
1948-02-27
The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to pr
So You Want to Be an Actor
1949-12-03
Joe McDoakes, unemployed thespian, makes all the casting calls,reads all of the trade papers, sees a
Easter Parade
1948-07-08
On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affec
Give Me a Sailor
1938-08-19
Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they g
Nearly Naked
1933-01-18
Eddie is forced to join a nudist cult to win over the girl he loves, Vera Marshe. When Vera is near,
Melody for Three
1941-06-19
Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music t
The Turning Point
1952-07-12
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop fath