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Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones. Peter O'Toole. Sir Cedric Charles Willingham. John Hurt. Lord Percival Graves. Camille Coduri. Miranda Green. Richard Griffiths. Duncan Phipps.
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Ralph Jones is the titular main protagonist of the 1991 American comedy film King Ralph.
He was played by John Goodman, who also portrayed James P. Sullivan, Pacha, Hound, and Walter Sobchak.
In a freak accident all the members of the House of Wyndham were killed except for two men. The first was Sir Cedric Willingham and the second was the American Ralph Jones. Both were descendents of Wyndham men who had gotten commoners pregnant. In the case of Ralph it was his grandfather who is the second duke of warren and met Ralph’s grandmother Constance who is waitress in the hotel where the duke is staying and got pregnant when visiting the US. Since Ralph’s father and grandmother are dead, Ralph is the sole heir to throne of England. Willingham refused to allow himself to be named King, and even though he was horrified over Ralph getting the position he allowed Ralph to be named the next King.
By then both Constance and his father were dead, and his mother was in prison for robbery. Ralph was living in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he was working as a lounge singer in a Las Vegas casino. Fired by the casino just as Duncan Phipps located him Duncan revealed his royal origins, and presented him with his grandfather's ring. They left for London, where Ralph was taken to Buckingham Palace and introduced to Willingham, who proceeded to teach Jones how to be a proper English monarch.
Going to a strip club the second night in town, Ralph meets Miranda Greene, a salesgirl who took a job as a stripper as she needed the money. Ralph makes a deal that if he can prove that he is the King she would have to go out with him at least once. She accepts and a short time later learns Ralph was telling the truth when she sees him on television.
Willingham met with met with Prime Minister Jeffery Hale and Lord Percival Graves - a prominent member of the House of Lords. Against Ralph from the start because of his common American background, Graves outlined his objections to Jones becoming the King. At that meeting he suggested that Parliament declare the Wyndham line to be at an end, and declare the House of Stuart to be the royal line once again. Since that is his line, Graves would be next in line for the throne. Hale decides that Ralph has the right to the throne since he has royal blood and that the country would have to live with him. Graves says that he supposes so, and begins scheming over how he can embarrass Jones out of the position.
Graves soon learns that Ralph is infatuated with one Miranda Greene - a salesgirl who took a job as a stripper to help make ends meet. He goes to Miranda with an offer to get photographs of the two in a compromising position in exchange for a large amount of money. At first she accepts, but soon she and Jones fall in love. She returns the money, but is unaware that Graves already has photographs.
Meanwhile the British government begins arranging for Princess Anna of Finland and Ralph to get to know each other better, in the hopes that it will lead them getting married and producing an heir to the throne. Even though Ralph and Anna are not In love and both of them are forced into a loveless marriage just to get drilling rights to save England’s economy. Ralph realizes how important it is to the future of the country and agrees to end his relationship with Miranda and pursue a relationship with Princess Anna. Ralph was about to call Miranda to end the relationship, however Miranda had already decided to end the relationship, hoping to keep Jones from being hurt.
Ralph Hampton Gainesworth Jones. Peter O'Toole. Sir Cedric Charles Willingham. John Hurt. Lord Percival Graves. Camille Coduri. Miranda Green. Richard Griffiths. Duncan Phipps.
After the entire royal family is killed in a freak accident, they begin to look for the closest living heir to the throne. Enter Ralph Jones (John Goodman), a loud Las Vegas entertainer who definitely doesn't look like part of the royal family. Sir Cedric Charles Willingham (Peter O'Toole), who makes it his job to transfer regular Ralph into ...
Some time later King Cedric named Ralph as Ralph Hampton Gainsworth Jones, the Third Duke of Warren. Ralph and Miranda resume their relationship and eventually marry, having a son whom they name Ralph, who would someday succeed the childless King Cedric I as Ralph II. Trivia [] Willingham was portrayed by the late British actor Peter O'Toole. O ...
King Ralph is a 1991 American comedy film written and directed by David S. Ward and starring John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, and John Hurt. [2] The film is about an American who becomes the unlikely King of the United Kingdom after an electrical accident wipes out the British Royal Family. The story is loosely based on the 1980 novel Headlong by ...
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Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. When the royal family is accidentally killed, the heir to the throne proves to be a loutish American named Ralph Jones (John Goodman). Overnight, Ralph goes from ...
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