Ralph Morgan
2 credits on HibingeTV
American actor, brother of actor Frank Morgan. He played concert pianist Anthony Lawrence in The Monster Maker (1944), the victim injected with acromegaly by J. Carrol Naish's mad doctor. He had a long career in films, often in supporting roles as authority figures.
Acted In
Mystery, Crime
William Powell's fourth and final outing as S.S. Van Dine's dilettante detective Philo Vance. A Long Island dog-show society gathering ends in a locked-room murder when the universally disliked Archer Coe is found dead — apparently by suicide, except for the bullet in his head and the corpse of his dog found in a closet. Vance unpicks a tangle of rivalries, inheritances, and championship terriers. Directed at speed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Bros., it's widely considered the best of the Philo Vance pictures and one of the cleverest whodunits of the pre-Code era. The film is in the public domain.
Mystery · Crime
The Kennel Murder Case
1933 - as Raymond Wrede
Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist becomes obsessed with a concert pianist's daughter and, when she rejects him, injects the pianist with a serum that causes acromegaly, the glandular disease that hideously enlarges the face and extremities. He offers the cure only in exchange for the daughter's hand. J. Carrol Naish plays the villain with relish, and the film uses the real, disfiguring effects of the disease as its horror rather than a fictional monster. A cheap, brisk PRC production from the prolific director Sam Newfield, it is a solid example of 1940s Poverty Row horror. The film is in the public domain.
Horror · Sci-Fi
The Monster Maker
1944 - as Anthony Lawrence