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Ralph Bellamy's Birth Card: The King of Clubs
The Master Leader
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Tony Award.
In the record
Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991) was an American actor whose career spanned 65 years on stage, film, and television. The birth-card coordinate for June 17 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1958 Best Actor in a Play (Sunrise at Campobello) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1958 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — Sunrise at Campobello as Franklin D. Roosevelt
The King of Clubs coordinate
Ralph Bellamy's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Tony Award and not a verdict on Ralph Bellamy. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.
Ralph Bellamy in the public record
During his career, he played leading roles as well as supporting roles, garnering acclaim and awards, including a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Sunrise at Campobello as well as Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for The Awful Truth (1937). In 1986, Bellamy was awarded with an Academy Honorary Award. He gained prominence for his roles in Boy Meets Girl (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), Flight Angels (1940), The Wolf Man (1941), and Sunrise at Campobello (1960). He is also known for his later roles in Rosemary's Baby (1968), Oh, God! (1977), Trading Places (1983), and Pretty Woman (1990). Bellamy was born Ralph Rexford Bellamy on June 17, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Lilla Louise (née Smith), a native of Canada, and Charles Rexford Bellamy. He ran away from home when he was 15 and managed to gain employment in a road show. He toured with road shows before finally landing in New York City.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ralph Bellamy (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 8 of Spades
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Ralph Bellamy, and not a forecast of a Tony.
Cards in Ralph Bellamy's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♣ — Birth Card: The Master Leader
- 8♠ — Karma — Environment: The Powerful Mind
- 2♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Skeptical Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
You take the hard lead and you stay with the work after the call is made.
In 1931, he made his film debut and worked constantly throughout the decade both as a lead and as a capable supporting actor.
Paired on shared wording: lead, worked.
Also on the record
- He began acting on stage there and, by 1927, owned his own theater company.
- In 1931, he made his film debut and worked constantly throughout the decade both as a lead and as a capable supporting actor.
- He co-starred in five films with Fay Wray.
- His film career began with The Secret Six (1931), starring Wallace Beery and featuring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Alan Cumming — 1998 Best Actor in a Musical (Cabaret)
- Bert Lahr — 1964 Best Actor in a Musical (Foxy)
- Beryl Reid — 1967 Best Actress in a Play (The Killing of Sister George)
- Douglas Hodge — 2010 Best Actor in a Musical (La Cage aux Folles)
- Elaine May — 2019 Best Actress in a Play (The Waverly Gallery)
- Lindsay Duncan — 2002 Best Actress in a Play (Private Lives)
- Patti LuPone — 1980 Best Actress in a Musical (Evita); 2008 Best Actress in a Musical (Gypsy)
- Tony Shalhoub — 2018 Best Actor in a Musical (The Band's Visit)
FAQ
- What is Ralph Bellamy's birth card?
- The King of Clubs. June 17 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Ralph Bellamy's dates come from?
- Birth date 1904-06-17 is the day-precision date on Ralph Bellamy's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Tony Awards (tonyawards.com) + Wikipedia leading-acting lists + Wikidata CC0 (Q364135) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Ralph Bellamy). Birth date 1904-06-17 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).