Introduction
Ralph Kellard (June 16, 1884 - 1955) was an actor in the U.S. who appeared in theatrical productions and films. His film work included leading roles in several films such as The Shielding Shadow (1916), The Restless Sex (1920) and The Cost (film). His son Robert Kellard also became an actor.
He was born Thomas J. J. Kelly in New York City.
He was referred to as a popular local matinee idol of the Auditorium Stock Company in Kansas when he returned on screen in a showing of The Cost (film) in 1920. He was voted the second most handsome film star and shown in a photograph of "this month's prominent film stars" in a 1915 edition of Motion Picture Classic.
He appeared in the French language publication Mon Ciné June 28, 1923.posted here GettyImages has a photograph of him. The Wisconsin Historical.Society has a movie still with him in it from the Pearl of the Army (1916) serial. The Silent Film Still Archive has a still of him from Veiled Marriage (1920)
Kellard ate a mostly fruit diet and caused slip and fall problems leaving fruit peels and other bits of fruit waste around studio sets.
Theater
- The Warrens of Virginia (play) (1907), as Gen. Carr
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (play) (1907)
- The Second Tanqueray starring Tallulah Bankhead at the Amerhurst Drama Festival in 1940.
- The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)