Ralph Clemente
Ralph is fourth generation European show business. His great grandfather was a theatrical architect and his grandfather was the head of AAFA Studios in Berlin. His mother was granted the first license for theater in the American Zone after World War II. Clemente's first professional appearance in show business was at age two where his first theatrical performance was as the son of renowned German actor Curt Jurgens. At 14, Clemente, his mother, sister and brother, moved to the U.S. He couldn't speak any English, and learned by watching a lot of TV. His mother opened the Laura Tolins School of Acting in Sarasota where he took acting lessons. Laura was a graduate of the State Theater in Berlin and a first generation student of Stanislavsky. Clemente says his mother could get a performance out of a kitchen sink. She was still teaching and directing plays until a few months before her death in 2006 at the age of 86. After his discharge, Clemente joined his family in Miami, got his SAG card and started working both there and in New York City. He eventually performed in 70 national TV commercials. In the summer of 1965 he went back to Germany, his first visit since he left as a young boy. He got an agent in Munich and started to act on TV and in films. His mother predicted he was going to be a director. While in Germany, Clemente started writing his first screenplay and soon, his mother's prediction started to come true. Clemente says, " I wanted to be able to tell stories, not just be part of them, take the audience on a journey, make statements and get people to laugh and to get them to think about things." Clemente's first theatrical short The Inning of the Week won seven international film festival awards. This led to co-directing his first feature film, The Cayman Triangle. Clemente and his longtime girlfriend Emily decided to get married and start a family. He got a job teaching film production at the University of Miami. During his 10 years at the University he produced Cease Fire, starring Don Johnson which brought a lot of attention to himself and the UM film program. Valencia College in Orlando was looking for someone to head a new film program and made an offer that Clemente couldn't refuse. Classes began in 1988 at Disney MGM Studios, then Universal Studios before becoming two year AS degree program. His students get hands-on experience working on feature films. He picks the films that he would be interested in seeing and scripts that benefit and challenge his students. Since Valencia started to participate in feature film productions the students have had the opportunity to work with artists Robert Wise, George Romero, Reza Badiyi, Jonathan Krane, Julie Harris, Ruby Dee, Sally Kellerman, Joe DiMaggio, Ed Begley, Jr., Tyne Daly, Mickey Rooney, Talia Shire and Peter Spirer among many others. Ralph says, "Every film is different. You are constantly learning, you never know it all and hopefully you don't repeat the same mistakes. In teaching classes, I refer to filmmaking as team art. It takes a lot of people, artists and technicians to put something special on the screen." Clemente aspires to make his pictures with Florida settings, writers and actors. Florida City directed by Clemente was shot entirely in Florida with mostly Florida actors. It is available in over 40 countries under the title Small Town Conspiracy. "When you can have a positive effect on people's lives and help them reach their dreams, that are the best reward a teacher can have." Some of his students have gone on to direct or produce such films as The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, National Treasure, Band of Brothers, The X Files and numerous others. Appearing on The Today Show, Steven Spielberg mentioned that Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida had one of the best film schools in the country. Clemente's son Parker continues the family tradition. He graduated from Valencia and the University of Miami and is fifth generation show business. His brother, Randolph, graduated from the University of Florida and St. Thomas University, school of law. He practices law in South Florida. Among the many awards and recognitions Clemente has received over the years, the Miami Herald in one of their annual Arts Preview Magazine praised Clemente as the "Filmmaker to Watch". In 2008 Ralph became Film Florida Legends Award winner.
Ralph Cole Jr.
Ralph Cole, Jr. is an award winning actor with phenomenal comic timing. The hilarity all started at Burbank Hospital in California where his intern father proudly assisted in the delivery. From that event on, equally encouraged by his school teacher mom, Ralph was destined to become an energetic crowd-pleaser on stage, film and television. Remaining an only child lent its way for Ralph's various characters and musical enthusiasm to emerge and flourish. During his youth, Ralph attended St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School. While enrolled, he was honored to tour England singing (soprano) in many historical cathedrals. Later as a teenager with a deeper voice, Ralph proudly marched with the Los Angeles Police Department's Jr. Band playing the flute and piccolo. With their extensive touring, Ralph was no stranger to strutting in parades, marching in competitions and performing in big venue extravaganzas like L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium and Houston's Astrodome. At Beverly Hills High School, Ralph again marched proudly in the band and led in the original oratory category on the Forensics team. Ralph began studying acting at Inner City Cultural Center. U.C.L.A. productions of Born Yesterday and Lock Up Your Daughters introduced Ralph to his first summer stock experience. And how important he felt when he was cast as Chinese in L.A.'s Young Actor's Theater production of Flower Drum Song performed at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. During his four years at Claremont's Pomona College, Ralph continued to pursue his theatrical delights and enthusiastically graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. Then, New York City! A perfect town for Ralph because their energies blended and soared. Word processing jobs were plentiful and Ralph balanced freelance work with classes and auditions. It was not long before Ralph landed his first children's theater show where he earned his Equity card. Off-Broadway and regional theaters enabled him to hone his crafts in such hits as The Torch-Bearers, La Cage Aux Folles, Dreamgirls, My Fair Lady, and Grand Hotel. Ralph performed stand up at local New York city venues as well as performing comedy improvisation with Shock of the Funny. Broadway welcomed him in Bigger Than Bubblegum, the musical story of The Emotions. And back in L.A., Ralph successfully dazzled numerous times on stage. The Pasadena Playhouse was home to Larry Hart's rousing musical Sisterella where Ralph's creation of the plum role "Babaloo" garnered him both the NAACP Theater Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Playhouse's Friend's Recognizing Entertaining Drama (FRED) Award for Most Entertaining Actor. German audiences subsequently applauded his portrayal. The musical was produced by Robert DeNiro and the late, great Michael Jackson. Ralph had the profound circle of life honor care giving for both his parents until their peaceful passing at bedside. And five days before his daddy died, Ralph booked a medical TV comedy called Scrubs. Since Daddy had been a prominent physician in Los Angeles still making house calls for nearly fifty years, he lit up like a Christmas tree when he heard the news! Fearlessly, Ralph has proceeded to guest star on NCIS, Mr. Mayor, Boy Culture, Snowfall, Mom, Coffee House Chronicles, The Real Bros of Simi Valley, Jane the Virgin, American Crime Story, To Tell the Truth, Harry's Law, The Whole Truth, Two and a Half Men, Desperate Housewives, Dexter, Cold Case and Twenty Good Years. And when you IMDb him, you will read where Ralph has graced the big screen in Never and Again, The Undertaker's Wife, K-11, Trick, Untogether, The Soloist, Dirty Talk, No Saints for Sinners, Kiss the Bride, Birthday Cake, This Train and Boomerang. Ralph lives in Los Angeles and is repped by Mark Scroggs at LB Talent Agency, and managed by Charles Newman at Newman-Thomas Management.
Ralph Collier
Ralph Collier is known for Shark Week (1987), Great White Open Ocean (2022) and Great White Serial Killer: Fatal Christmas (2022).
Ralph Collier
Ralph Collier is known for Great White Open Ocean (2022), MonsterQuest (2007) and MSNBC Live (1996).
Ralph Cooper
Ralph Cooper was called "The Dark Gable" after Clark Gable, of course, because of his handsome, rugged good looks and his charm and wit. Too talented and handsome for Hollywood and wouldn't accept stereotype roles Hollywood gave Blacks - so he went and made and starred in films for Blacks. While choreographing a Shirley Temple movie "Poor Little Rich Girl" he studied and watching the movie-making process and made some of the best Black-cast films of the time. On screen he usually played gangsters and bad men in the same acting styles of James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. His movies were smashes in the Black community. Cooper was also an emcee and helped create the famous Apollo Theater. He helped the Legends we know now to stardom. He was a very talented man a tap dancer, choreographer, wonderful actor, bandleader, singer and writer.
Ralph Cotterill
Ralph Cotterill was born in 1932 in Yorkshire, England. He is an actor, known for The Proposition (2005), Howling III (1987) and The Last Bastion (1984).
Ralph Dale
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Ralph Davis
Ralph Davis is an actor, known for Anatomy of a Scandal (2022), King Lear: Live from Shakespeare's Globe (2017) and Father Brown (2013).
Ralph DiFonzo
Ralph DiFonzo is known for LA Forensics (2006), Vanity Fair Confidential (2015) and Fugitive Son: The Hunt for Alex Kelly (1996).
Ralph Dumke
Ralph Dumke was born on July 25, 1899 in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for All the King's Men (1949), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and Mystery Street (1950). He was married to Greta Leona Edner. He died on January 4, 1964 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.