Ralph Bell (Actor)

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(11-27-1915 - 08-02-1998) Age 83

Bell played Lt Travis Roberts on NBC Radio's Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator.

 

He appeared in the following 123 episodes of Radio Mystery Theater
Date Episode Title Plot
01/08/1974 0003 The Bullet An accident kills a man but he is made to return to Earth to trade places with the fated victim.
01/20/1974 0015 The Chinaman Button A perfectly anonymous murder offers the opportunity to earn a fortune for a man in dire financial straits.
01/23/1974 0018 And Nothing but the Truth A young investigator guesses at the facts of a hit-and-run case and believes the convict to be a willing victim in lieu of his son. But he cannot prove it to his superior.
01/31/1974 0026 The Man Who Asked for Yesterday A man is murdered by his wife. After death, he wishes to be granted the chance to live the finale of his life over again
02/02/1974 0028 A Ghostly Game of Death A prospective buyer for an ancient dwelling recruits the services of a ghost hunter to get rid of the spirit of the wife of a sea captain.
02/13/1974 0037 Dig Me Deadly Archaeology students dig out an ancient decomposed corpse of a woman attached to a skeleton and a female detective is recruited to reveal the mystery behind it.
02/14/1974 0038 Under Grave Suspicion A bitter fight between a couple. A sea side cottage. And turbulent weather that threatens to turn into a hurricane.
02/21/1974 0043 The Walls of Jericho A modest attender at a men's club discovers his extraordinary gift of bringing characters to life from his imagination - literally. But they do exhibit a tendency of being out of control.
02/28/1974 0047 A Choice of Witnesses The tables are turned on a seasoned blackmailer as his past victims team up to create a deadly plan to ensnare him.
03/12/1974 0055 A Sacrifice in Blood An archaeologist might come to regret their decision when they adopt a boy found in an ancient, infamous Aztec place of worship.
03/19/1974 0059 Frankenstein Revisited The 400th anniversary coverage of Baron Von Frankenstein might just be a bad idea for a news item. Especially since the good doctor and his creation are eager to attend.
04/04/1974 0069 The Thing Inside A couple buy a curious paper weight made from glass in a curio store. The artist husband soon gets obsessed with it and the wife suspects his involvement in the death of an avaricious developer. She also thinks he is being controlled by an evil spirit.
04/10/1974 0072 Out of Focus An advertising professional makes futile attempts to take the pictures of a beautiful model as all her photos turn out blank. In the process, he falls hopelessly in love with her until her real nature is revealed.
04/29/1974 0082 All Living Things Must Die A lonely woman is left with just the houseplants for her company under the rules of her tyrannic husband. But he goes too far in trying to take even the plants away from her and the vegetation isn't willing to comply.
05/14/1974 0091 Voices of Death The apparition of a dead producer Peter Truro returns to haunt the actor Jason Phillips through his television set. The ghost repeatedly asks him to murder his wife Claire. The irate Jason is forced to consult a medium and a psychiatrist but soon gives way to believing the apparition. He must utilize all his resources to save Claire every time Truro aggressively frames the circumstances.
06/12/1974 0104 The Rat Enraged by the faithlessness of his wife, a genius scientist creates a highly-evolved rodent and sends it to attack his wife's lover.
07/22/1974 0121 The Deadly Process In order to save his job and further his career, an unskilled engineer pilfers the secret to a revolutionary process from an old friend. Now he must lie, cheat and bribe his way through life in a desperate bid to keep his new-found status.
08/21/1974 0137 Having a Horrible Time Amy Hastings is a brave woman. She testified against one of New York's most infamous drug lords. But his goons pursue her to a secluded resort where Amy and her friend are holidaying.
08/26/1974 0139 The Deadliest Favor A guy is running away from the police and takes shelter in a friend's house. The friend is a novelist and lives with his wife. But from the moment the fugitive appears, problems creep up between the couple.
11/20/1974 0176 Tattooed for Murder In order to escape their father's tyrannical ways, a pair of sisters join a circus as tattooed girls. On the surface, their actions are meant to insult and humiliate their father, but one sibling has grander scheme in mind.
11/25/1974 0178 The Sighting A couple encounters a UFO landing on Earth. Though the husband insists on denying what he saw, his wife starts to get neighbourly visits from aliens.
12/05/1974 0183 The Body Snatchers A doctor meets a drunkard friend in a bar. They reminisce the times they defiled graves in order to sell the corpses to a medical school.
12/30/1974 0193 The Golem A man tries to aid an elderly Jew and his granddaughter evade the Nazis tailing them. The old man begins to resurrect a mythical being from old Hebrew legend to save them.
01/20/1975 0208 The Precious Killer A prominent figure in a European faction is charged with sedition and soon comes to realize that the cause he championed only brought about oppression. His desire to step aside to make way for change is thwarted by all around treachery.
02/03/1975 0217 Death On Skis Every year, at similar time periods and during a full moon, blonde women are brutally murdered at a famous ski resort. When a renowned author takes his blonde wife to that dangerous slope to complete his book, she starts to suspect him.
02/26/1975 0229 The Strange Case of Lucas Lauder A man sentenced to death informs a prison guard that he was Jack the Ripper in a previous life and that after his death, Ripper's soul will possess him and he will murder his wife.
03/07/1975 0235 The Eye of Death A young photographer is convinced that her stepfather killed her mother and tries to prove it. She becomes frantic and begins to stalk him when he gets ready to marry again.
04/14/1975 0256 The Intermediary Childhood cruelty unhinges a man named Frank Ellington as he gets possession of the house where his stepmother tortured him. But he is convinced to relocate there by his wife whom he soon suspects to be an agent of his dead stepmother.
05/12/1975 0272 For Tomorrow We Die Harry Taylor gets out after three decades in prison for murdering his wife and goes to find an old flame Jesse Craig. Her son-in-law tries to find out whether his love is sincere, or motivated by revenge for Jesse deserting him years ago.
06/09/1975 0288 Fallen Angel A manic-depressive artist is blessed with an angelic muse that inspires him to greatness. However, he falls into alcoholism in the wake of her absence. When he gets into a fight during one of his episodes, he is confined in a sanatorium and unwittingly discovers that his angel has been replaced by another.
07/14/1975 0308 Snake in the Grass After discovering a new kind of clover, a female scientist magnanimously allows her colleague to take credit for the find. When he turns up dead, all evidence point to her. When she is accused of his murder, a smitten detective works to prove her innocence.
08/27/1975 0333 The Eavesdropper A renowned scientist spends time with his wife in their estate in the Poconos of Pennsylvania. Unknown to them, they are watched by hired spies.
09/08/1975 0340 The Other Life A neglected housewife finds herself deep in debt when she turns to racehorse gambling to stave off her loneliness. At the same time, her husband manages to further his political career at the expense of his wife's happiness.
09/18/1975 0346 The Coffin with the Golden Nails Determined to start anew, the secret police chief of a Third World country undergoes cosmetic surgery to alter his visage. When he unwittingly falls for a woman he previously tortured, the peaceful life he built for himself is threatened.
11/14/1975 0379 The Money Makers When a couple of counterfeiters set up their operation in an abandoned house, they are unaware that a spirit haunts the place. The wife of one of the criminals is placed in a bind when she learns of their illegal activities from the ghost.
12/11/1975 0394 You Can Change Your Life A former game show contestant obsessively stalks the three women who served as judges during his stint as a participant in a media program.
12/29/1975 0404 The Memory Killers In order for the company to survive, an advertising executive works hard to land a major account. However, he is haunted by ghosts from the past who revealed a disturbing tale-- that the head of their corporation is the same Nazi prison guard that tortured them to death.
01/09/1976 0412 The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg A small town news man tells the story of how an enigmatic stranger seduced the town's incorruptible officials with the false glitter of easy cash.
02/19/1976 0434 Goodbye, Benjamin Flack Up to his eye-balls in debt, a brilliant businessman hatches the perfect scheme- to get rid of his look-alike cousin and take over his life.
03/01/1976 0440 The Death Trail In the late 1860's, Col. Chambers gives $200,000 to his former officer and current president of a small bank in Texas, Wayne Prescott with the order to invest the funds in cattle. Prescott who is about to marry the sheriff's daughter has no intention of investing the money as he guards a terrible secret. What the others don't know is that he is a member of a marauding and murderous posse, the Gunnysack Gang.
03/18/1976 0450 The Other Side of the Coin In a freak accident, Sgt. John McCaffrey wakes up from an alcohol-induced stupor in the body of Gino Carpacci, a professional con man who has stolen a million dollars from the mafia. While John looks for a way to regain his identity and avoid death, Gino plans the perfect crime-- to take his brand new body, the money and run.
03/31/1976 0459 The Spit and Image His luck takes a turn for the better when an ex-football player lands an unusual job-- to be the stand in for an eccentric billionaire.
04/01/1976 0460 The White Ghost With the accidental demise of his mistress, a successful entrepreneur's world slowly falls apart as her vengeful ghost refuses to give him peace.
04/22/1976 0473 The Green Eyed Monster In this tragic tale of jealousy and intrigue, a man commits the ultimate betrayal by murdering his beloved and innocent wife.
05/31/1976 0487 Ghost Town In the journey to find his family, a man carjacks a lonely traveler in Death Valley. Together they drive to a ghost town to find answers.
08/16/1976 0507 Your Grade Is A Molly Butler is found dead of Carbon Monoxide poisoning. The police think that it was either suicide or accidental. But Molly's best friend, Judith Kent, has other thoughts after she reads in Molly's diary that Silas Butler wrote a mystery story for his Creative Writing class about a murder using CO that was undetectable.
09/21/1976 0522 The Rainbow Man A con-artist snake oil salesman helps a young couple who want expose the corrupt police force and marry one another.
09/28/1976 0526 One Girl in a Million A celebrity business consultant of the future, who makes his living helping corporations make huge decisions, searches the galaxy for an exact duplicate of his long dead girlfriend. Meanwhile, he feels compelled to kill anybody with the same last name as the man who killed his girlfriend.
11/08/1976 0548 The Graveyard A man mourns for his lost love who died after riding out into a rain storm to buy a new dress. He learns the truth about her in a hard way.
11/25/1976 0554 M-U-R-D-E-R A couple spending an evening together decide to play with a Ouija board. When the planchette spells the word 'MURDER' over and over again, one of the men becomes extremely paranoid.
12/02/1976 0558 How to Kill Rudy A man discovers that his favorite detective novels predict true crimes. Then he finds a book about his future. The novel tells of how his boss and his wife plan to kill him so they can marry. He takes steps to pre-empt them.
12/16/1976 0566 The Doctor's Evidence A shallow man who is having an affair with his secretary catches a lucky break when his wife dies in an accidental fall. But her son suspects that his wife sent him a message by telepathy saying she was going to be murdered.
12/27/1976 0572 The Mark of Cain A rancher hires a gunslinger to enforce his will. The rancher's daughter falls in love with him, making her betrothed angry enough to challenge him to a gun battle.
01/10/1977 0580 Two Renegades
At the turn of the century, a case of mistaken identity lands a professional con man at the forefront of the Panamanian army.  His failure as a General becomes apparent with his lack of skills and Panama’s enemies learn to take advantage of his weakness.

01/17/1977 0587 Son of Satan
A man and his wife come across an old friend in a stroke of luck. They soon discover that not only has he changed his name, but he actually joined a devil-worshipping cult as well. Despite his religious inclinations, they soon pick-up their old friendship to the extent of even trusting him to babysit their newborn child!

02/17/1977 0602 If Mischief Follow Just as she is ready to announce her engagement to another doctor, Marion's first husband, whom she thought was dead, returns and wants to resume the marriage. He needs an operation her fiance is best suited to provide.
03/15/1977 0617 The Shining Man A young couple purchase a haunted house in Scotland where he is to take a new job. The man's uncle is a parapsychologist and tries to help them solve the mystery of the mysterious glowing in the windows at night.
03/31/1977 0626 Death Is Blue After discovering that his unattractive sister has managed to snare a handsome man as her fiance, he hires a private detective to look into the man\'s background. He is firmly convinced that the scoundrel is merely after her money.
04/05/1977 0629 The Sensitive
A cynical and bitter skeptic attends a séance with his wife and his boss. Despite his aversion to things of the occult, he soon realizes that he is sensitive to the paranormal activities around him and actually has the power to manifest spirits into the physical plane. His so-called gift however comes with a terrible price.

04/25/1977 0640 Bound East for Haiti On a commercial voyage, a sailor attempts to curse his captain with black magic to steal the girlfriend for himself.
05/30/1977 0656 The Silent Witness A Hawaiian banker is haunted by a vision of an open grave in an American cemetary. His new assistant's wife brings back painful memories for him.
06/06/1977 0660 The Blood Red Wine A man wonders out of a storm into a couple's house and dies of a heart attack. He is carrying with him $250,000 stolen money. Do they keep it or give it back despite the fact that nobody knows they have it?
06/21/1977 0669 Tomorrow, Cloudy and Cold A scientist conducts experiments on a young drifter to allow him to be able to control the weather with his emotions. When his young subject escapes, the scientist must find his subject before he creates havoc.
07/08/1977 0679 The Gift Rita Holland and Walter Powers accomplish a murder they have been planning for some time. They go to Rita's apartment and after she turns up the hi-fi to its loudest pitch, Walter shoots her husband, Dennis. Their explanation to the police is that Dennis was killed by a burglar trying to steal his valuable coin collection. The police begin a routine investigation, so routine that Walter, subject to hallucinations, starts believing they know he's guilty.
07/18/1977 0684 The Bisara of Pooree A British soldier buys a small, mysterious jewelry box that brings him bad luck. His luck doesn't change when the box is stolen. To get the girl of his desire, he must steal it back.
08/19/1977 0697 The Instrument A writer keeps an incompetent agent because the agent had saved him from drowning years before. Just when he's getting ready to fire him, he finds himself in need of his agent's services again... and again....
09/02/1977 0703 Olive Darling and Morton Dear A stress-relieving journey into nature might prove fatal for a diffident accountant who ends up sharing a room with a self-proclaimed writer who can be a deadly robber in reality.
09/07/1977 0705 Silent Shock A female inmate of a mental asylum talks to invisible people and awaits the return of a beloved who might not exist. But the doubt lies in whether she is actually insane or made disturbed intentionally.
09/20/1977 0712 The Tunnel Man A deranged scientist invents a machine that can cut through elemental rock as easily as a ship cruising through the ocean. With the forecast of an approaching seismic disturbances in the town, he has the power to make it dance to his tunes and the mayor must decide on their course.
09/29/1977 0717 The Solitary The story of an unlikely friendship between a prisoner and the security officer. The prisoner is hated and tortured by another guard regularly and the warden tries to find a way to resolve the conflict.
10/14/1977 0724 The People of Sissora A man spots another at a restaurant dinner and pins him down as the ultimate threat to mankind. It transpires that they are both from a different planet!
11/04/1977 0735 The Final Judgement A classic tale from the legendary fables of King Solomon. Three merchants go to Solomon to get his counsel as to which of them is unscrupulous. Solomon uses his sagacity and devices a unique strategy to get at the truth.
11/08/1977 0737 The Haunted Mill A young voyager takes up a long journey lasting three years. His sweetheart back home falls for another man in his absence. But his subsequent return strokes her old passions much to the chagrin of her present beau who swears revenge. The traveller meanwhile is completely preoccupied with a decrepit, haunted mill.
11/15/1977 0741 A Point of Time Set in the future 2057, North America is controlled by a savage autocrat. A scientist brother and sister pair come up with a plan to alter his past and make him a little more compassionate. They decide to send an officer into his past in order to effect this.
11/28/1977 0747 The Man Is Missing A lady pesters investigators to find her missing husband. One of them decide to help her on his own as he falls for her. But his wife gets interested too and manages to unearth some astonishing facts.
12/02/1977 0749 Neatness Counts An investigator ends up with the unfortunate duty of solving the murder mystery about a man so universally panned that each and every person he knew in his lifetime could be a suspect.
12/19/1977 0756 Brothers of the Angle Mrs. Buttwheezer is the rich heroine of this tale of undying love. She believes her deceased husband will return from his grave to keep her company. A bunch of swindlers decide to take advantage of this using the old man's love for poetry and fishing and claim to get messages from him to win her trust.
01/20/1978 0768 The Enchanted Child A young boy has the strange gift of killing people at will with the force of his thoughts. When anyone speaks positively about dying when he is about, the person under discussion invariably ends up dead. His parents get curious after the second death and get afraid that they might be next in line.
01/30/1978 0773 Yesterday's Giant After a nuclear exercise, two scientists discover a group of Neanderthals living in the strange jungles of Nevada desert. Each of them follow the remarkable discovery with their own means and goals.
02/13/1978 0781 Night Eyes A horse-tender winds up killed after he finds out that a slow horse has been replaced by a similar looking one. But miraculous coincidences reveal the plan and forces the owner's wife to search for the facts.
02/16/1978 0783 Something in the Air A father attempts to stop his young girl from consenting to what he deems to be a poor match with an older man with little financial standing. But a strange psychic link seems to bring the two together despite his best attempts, even with the couple helping!
03/02/1978 0791 You Tell Me Your Dream A professional attempt to help a rich man with his constant dreams about death turns unpleasant for a psychiatrist as she starts having them too. Her co-workers are not helping either.
03/07/1978 0794 The Red Scarf Trouble brews between an adulterous couple as the woman ditches her paramour for murdering her husband. But he isn't about to let her go scot-free.
03/09/1978 0795 The Instant Millionaires Moral qualms notwithstanding, three warehouse labourers decide to share a huge stash of three million dollars that find by accident. But it fails to bring them contentment. What's more, the real felon owner might be coming after them any time!
03/24/1978 0804 Wise Child A kindly couple come across an abandoned toddler at a hotel after a heavy storm and adopt it. But the baby never seems to grow older...
04/18/1978 0818 Uncle Louis A young police investigator attempts to gather proof against a known mobster and falls for a lady witness during it. The irate mobster discovers a secret from his past.
05/02/1978 0826 The Figure in the Moonlight A mysterious engraving of a residence shows a person re-enacting a crime of the past. The curious couple who inherit it decide to look for its portents, they stumble across an acquaintance's family secret.
06/08/1978 0847 Death Spell An unemployed couple of an artist and an actress are forced to move in with a rich friend who is convinced his wife is trying to murder him using black magic.
06/30/1978 0857 The Good Times Express A snow storm in the middle of June forces a tradesman to abandon his flight and catch a train. But he finds himself amid weird fellow travellers journeying to strange places.
07/17/1978 0865 The Tell-Tale Scar A crime journalist and a district attorney pair up to track down a gangster who is believed to be dead.
07/25/1978 0870 The Stranger Inside A blue-blooded lady is forced on a journey of self-discovery and culpability when her step-daughter ends up murdered. The police investigator helps her on her way.
08/23/1978 0883 The Eavesdropper Myrtle Chapman, married to a bookish man who neglected her for eight years, stealthily listens to his telephonic conversations about Hermes with another woman. She gets her answers finally in a small statuette at a bar.
09/06/1978 0889 Dead Wrong When a new appointee from Heaven gets the wrong man's soul, he attempts to fix things. But the correct person doesn't want to go with him.
09/29/1978 0899 A Thousand-Year-Old Story A tremendously wealthy man is killed aboard his own luxury yacht. The investigators believe the only possible culprit is his personal assistant. But the local physician who also happens to be the P.A.'s friend since childhood believes him innocent and tries to aid the unfortunate man.
10/20/1978 0908 The Outside Girl Living off his wealthy mother, a good for nothing alcoholic becomes unusually attached to his father's portrait which he painted years ago. Upon waking from an alcohol induced stupor, he awakens to find the portrait gone, together with the new cleaning lady.
11/06/1978 0914 Hit and Run When a professional accident victim unexpectedly perishes after jumping in front of an oncoming car, his hired witness adds extortion to his list of transgressions when he blackmails the senator involved in the crime.
01/26/1979 0950 The Dominant Personality After their wedding, a city waitress moves to the wilderness to live with her loner husband. A series of murders take place on the nearby property and all clues point to her man.
02/05/1979 0951 Love After Death For the past thirty years, a gifted but terminally ill concert pianist has searched for her lost husband, refusing to believe the reports that he had perished after returning to the Soviet Union. They are given a second chance at love when her manager finally tracks him down.
03/12/1979 0961 All the Time in the World A professional swindler experiencing a losing streak believes he has unraveled the mystery of immortality, he later comes to realize that it is not as wonderful as he imagined.
05/02/1979 0976 The Fabulous Pillow A man is revisited by a strange dream when he loses consciousness during a car crash. In the vision, he goes to seek help and finds himself in the company of a former coworker whom he defended against robbery charges at the cost of his own job. To make amends, the man hands over the stolen goods.
06/13/1979 0988 The Copenhagen Connection Hot on the trail of a fraudulent insurance claim to Mexico and Europe, a police investigator must face a painful betrayal.
07/25/1979 1000 Catch a Falling Star Out of charity, residents of a small town bring their needlework requirements to a crazed seamstress. Chaos and hilarity ensues when she insists on creating the gown of a young bride-to-be.
11/14/1979 1030 The Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand Dollar Error A bank president discovers that a glitch in their system erroneously transferred the sum of $999,000 into the account of a corrupt Manila lawyer. In order to retrieve the amount, he must call in a favor to get the greatest attorney in the world to represent his case.
12/17/1979 1039 Beyond Belief The owners of a small coffee shop take pity on an amnesiac young woman roaming the streets of New York City. As they get to know her better, they find that beneath her smiling countenance lies a terrible secret.
02/06/1980 1057 The Deserter A mountain man saves a couple and their infant who are stranded by a landslide in the Sierra mountains of California. While he is willing to help them survive, he refuses to guide them back to civilization.
03/19/1980 1069 The Death Wish While meditating, a highly stressed businessman has visions of his wife\'s infidelity. During these \"rhapsodic\" episodes, he is also hounded by an ethereal beauty that convinces him to step into another dimension to be with her.

06/23/1980 1096 Life Blood In this tale of revenge and deception, an embittered scientist creates a life-like robot whose sole purpose is to destroy the life of his old rival.
07/28/1980 1104 A Ton of Gold In an expedition to search for the lost Indian gold of an obscure tribe, an archaeologist and his team set off into the desert of New Mexico. Before long, they discover firsthand the horrors enveloping the cursed gold.
09/22/1980 1120 The Mysterious Rochdale Special Scotland Yard enlists the aid of a former scam artist to solve the mysterious disappearance of an entire train bound for London, along with its wealthy passenger.
01/08/1981 1144 In the Dark When a woman's husband goes missing, his wife seeks the help of friends who one by one begin to shun her. All proof point towards a kidnapping, however, she refuses to believe he was taken by the secret police.
02/16/1981 1160 Troubled Waters After his wife appeals to his old boss to give him another chance, an unemployed civil engineer gets a chance to redeem himself. However, he must take the boss's son along for the project as part of the deal. When the young man makes a play for the engineer's wife, trouble sets in.
02/25/1981 1164 A God Named Henry A huge storm causes Henry, a miserable salary man to get marooned on a remote island inhabited by a local tribe that teaches him how to be confident. Soon, the God-in-training returns to civilization as new and improved man.
03/30/1981 1178 The Dead Come Alive When the residents of a small Ohio town learn of the impending visit of a man who claims to have the power to raise the deceased, they are far from pleased as they believe that the secrets of the dead are better off buried.
05/04/1981 1193 Garden of the Moon After purchasing make-up at a new health store, a young executive develops a sudden taste for moon bathing. She is soon invited to a free convention for all the others that have fallen prey to their scam.
07/29/1981 1227 Postage Due 40 years later, a letter mailed in 1941 is discovered and a local postman is tasked to deliver it. The man becomes entangled in a ghostly affair.
10/23/1981 1253 The Most Necessary Evil Detective Lieutenant Crane investigates into the mysterious death of a man after his wife narrates the story of their suspicious rise in wealth and stature.
11/30/1981 1264 Vanity and Jane When a beautiful woman moves into the flat next to his, a beach resort resident falls for her. However, she soon proves that he is no match for her.
04/19/1982 1317 Shelter The threat of nuclear war forces a group of people to take refuge in the bomb shelter of their neighbor. As tension rises, the shelter's owner spreads ill will amongst the camp's members.
04/23/1982 1319 The Whimpering Pond While visiting old friends at remote country manor, a novelist chances upon a mysterious figure within the mists shrouding an old pond. He later learns of the strange disappearance of woman and realizes that her restless spirit is haunting the area.
05/07/1982 1325 The Wedding Present A duo of professional swindlers enlists the services of a hapless American painter in a plot to scam the king of a Balkan country. Determined to pull off the con of the century, the unlikely tag-team work together and in the process, learn that they share a great deal more in common than they realized.
05/12/1982 1327 The Wound That Would Not Heal After being charged with the murder of his mistress, a man adamantly denies his guilt. However, when the ghost of his dead lover begins to haunt his dreams, he becomes disoriented and begins to believe that the accusation must be true.
07/12/1982 1350 The Hand of Amnesia Despite his marriage to a wealthy widow, a young short-order cook refuses to break up with his former lover. When his wife discovers his infidelity, she throws him out in a fit of jealous rage. He is suspected of foul play when his wife mysteriously disappears.
08/26/1982 1364 Barn Burner Chaos ensues when a pair of racehorse owner's substitutes ringers for their steeds in order to pull-of the scam of the century.


35 Responses to Bell Ralph

From those Power and Troll Records LPs (Thrillers and Chillers, Great Ghost Stories) to the 100-plus episodes of cbsrmt in which he starred, my '70s childhood would never be the same -- or as entertaining -- without Ralph Bell!

James

Great voice for radio. Love his work on CBSRMT

JimmyP

Ralph sounded very much like Edward G. Robinson. His radio performances were always enjoyable.

Frank Berry

Ralph Bell had such a distinctive voice, you could always tell it was him. I like him a lot.

Liz B

He sounds very similar to Ralph Bellamy (Trading Places) also.

Marc

I recently heard an X-Minus One episode that starred two of my favorite CBSRMT actors...Larry Haines and Ralph Bell.

Brian

Ralph Bell is my favorite of the men on the show and Larry Haines is also a favorite. They are both great actors.

Amy

Ralph Bell is my favorite actor.

Brody

My favorite actor is Ralph Bell

Richard

Ralph Bell is my favorite of the men on CNSRMT! He is really a good actor! I especially love the way he plays the evil characters, lol! He is really good. Also, he was in some TV shows as well. Check out 'Suspense' episode 'The Suicide Club'. He plays the club president, who wears a patch over his eye. He was also a gifted comedian. He was in an Andy Griffith episode called 'The Cow Thief'. He was a guest on other TV shows as well.

LuAnne

Ralph Bell made "The Man who asked for yesterday" one of my all-time favorites. I saw some other favorites in there as well.

LuAnne

Ralph Bell is definitely one of my favorite CBSRMT actor.

Daniel

Agree with the praise above. Definitely my favorite actor. Such a distinctive voice which lends itself perfectly to radio. Who in the world would give him a thumbs down and why??

Anastasia

I know, Anastasia, I am not sure why anyone would give ANY of these hard-working, talented people a thumbs-down. Ralph Bell is definitely one of my very favorite actors. His voice is so distinctive and unique.

Pamela

Ralph Bell was born on November 27, 1915 in New York City, New York, USA as Ralph Scognamiglio. He was an actor, known for Guiding Light (1952), Zelig (1983) and Wolfen (1981). A very successful voice-over actor and announcer. He had a very quirky sing song style of delivery. Portrayed Lt. Travis Rogers on NBC Radio's "Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator He landed several roles on Broadway before turning to radio in the late 1940s, portraying characters on such shows as “This Is Nora Drake” (1947), “Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar” (1949) and “Dimension X” (1950). He appeared on many shows inluding the Patty Duke Show, The Jimmy Durante Show, The Edge of the City, Pueble, The Andy Griffith Show, later in his career, Bell acted on "Law & Order" (NBC, 1990-2010). Fans of the Andy Griffith Show know him as Special Investigator William UpChurch who came to Mayberry to help Andy and Barney solve the case of stolen cows.

Adam

CBSRMT spotted in the wild. I was watching the movie Super 8 which was made in 2011, but takes place in 1979. In the opening, about 10 minutes in, there is a scene where one of the kids at his desk in his bedroom and he's listening to CBS Radio Mystery Theater. It only lasts about 10 seconds but you can hear the distinctive voice of Ralph Bell, and you could tell from the ambient sound that it was an actual episode. Could be a fun project for a die-hard fan to try to identify the episode?

Sam

Interesting. I noticed when watching the Twilight Zone that the show used some of the same music as CBSRMT. I caught that when I saw it at the theater. My wife wasn't nearly as excited about it as I was

Ralph

I remember getting excited about it and paused to explain and my ex looked at me like, "who cares". I need to go watch that again ...wonder if they have it at the library (the New Blockbusters)

Vic

"Love After Death" episode 0951.

Jerry

I struck me today I've been listening to these shows just about every day for at least 10 years now. Working through them from top to bottom and back again. They're my go-to ear candy for sitting in traffic. I'm sure there are lots of you out there that share this sentiment.

Sam

One of the great voices of CBSRMT, among many greats. Somehow, no matter how far out the story, Mr. Bell could bring it to life and make it (almost) believable. Thank you, Sir!

Scott Boyd

My favorite OTR actor. “Wolfen’ is a good movie.

Bruce

Ralph Bell is one of my favorite radio actors and tonight I heard him in "Under Grave Suspicion" on CBS Radio Mystery Theater. What a tour de force! About 75% of the episode was him alone. He did a great job, very dramatic and almost heartbreaking, and carried the show. Robert Dryden and William Redfield (two other favorites) did swell jobs as well.

Maggie

For Sam, in regards to the movie Super 8. The episode in question was "Love After Death", episode 0951.

Jerry

Ralph Bell was one of the best actors, and he did so many great episodes. He was fantastic as the villain in the episode about rats. I guess that was his best performance because he was so terrifying. (If you were asking about Larry Haines, that would be much easier. I think his best performance was "The Black Room.") Another great episode was "The Man Who Asked for Yesterday" where Ralph Bell plays the Devil, who makes a deal with a man who wants to do the last part of his life over again and avoid the mistakes he made. I really enjoyed him in that role.

Anne

So I was watching some Perry Mason and suddenly THAT THEME. The episode: The Case of the Libelous Locket. IMDB notes: "The ominous music that plays in the background when Janice is being extorted was used as the theme music for the Radio Mystery Theater."

Jon

One of the best voices on CBSRMT - As a kid I pictured him totally differently and carry that image until this day.

Ali

Ralph Bell had a long career as a radio personality, voice actor, narrator and radio announcer on dozens of programs including The Cavalcade Of America, The Mysterious Traveler, The Lux Radio Theater, X-Minus One, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Theater Five and Suspense. He appeared in over a dozen Broadway productions and numerous film and television programs. His film credits include Edge Of The City, What's So Bad About Feeling Good?, Hail, Wolfen and Zelig. His television credits include Hawaiian Eye, Wanted: Dead Or Alive, The Andy Griffith Show, The Patty Duke Show, Kate & Allie, Law & Order and appearances on the daytime soap operas, Guiding Light and The Edge Of Night.

Charlie

I remember recognizing Ralph by his voice instantly as a kid when I saw him on The Andy Griffith show episode about the cow thief. He played the detective Barney was trying to impress. Excellent actor! My favorite CBSRMT episode was "A Choice of Witnesses", when Ralph played Mr. Kellerman.

David

I was visiting relatives a few years back and this episode was on in the background. I heard that voice and instantly said, “That’s Ralph Bell!” Everyone looked at me. Who? Then I filled them in. I had never seen him before; only heard him in radio performances and commercial VO. Nice little surprise in life.

Chas.

One of the best! I catch him on radio shows from the 40's onward. It's interesting that he did some work in Hollywood in the late 50's to early 60's. He was quite the NYC staple.

Daniel

Top 3 OTR, right up there with Gwynne and Kramer. Just amazing.

Ian Black

Ralph could play a very good evil-mysterious character, which fired my imagination many times. ;-)

Mel

Ralph was superb...great appearances on: 'Inner Sanctum'...'Mysterious Traveler'...'2000 Plus' etc. and also excellent years later on the 120+ CBSRMT' eps he was on. RIP Ralph

TD

I was listening to episodes in the upper 500's and realized the voice in the episode was the same as the commercial that came on during the break. He had a voice great for radio and great for selling cars! CBSRMT had a repertory of versatile actors and actresses who had wonderful opportunities to stretch the boundaries of their craft in ways that television and films ruled out. Actors were less likely to fall victim to type. Actors in their 60's could play characters in their 20's so long as they could sell it.

Dave


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