Donald Most (born August 8, 1953) is an American actor and singer,
best known for his role as Ralph Malph on the television series Happy
Days.Most was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City. He
lived in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Erasmus Hall
High School in 1970. He attended Lehigh University for three years
from 1970 to 1973, but did not graduate. Originally intending to study
engineering, he changed his major to business after his first
semester. He made plans during his junior year to spend the summer of
1973 in search of acting jobs in Hollywood before completing his
studies at Lehigh. Instead, he landed the Ralph Malph role on his
third audition and moved to California to pursue acting full-time.
Most appeared on the 113th and final filmed but never aired episode of
Room 222, entitled "Jason and Big Mo", in the role of Louie, the
red-headed class wisecracker. David Jolliffe had handled the role of
Bernie, the red-headed class wisecracker, for all prior appearances.
Room 222 aired for the last time in January 1974, just as Happy Days
began, and on the same network, ABC.Most played jokester Ralph on
Happy Days, appearing up until the eighth season and then in the final
season in a guest role. Most has appeared in other film and television
work. Film credits include Leo and Loree (1980), EDtv (1999), Planting
Melvin (2005) and The Great Buck Howard (2008). He also made the
regular round of guest appearances on TV shows like Emergency!, CHiPs,
Baywatch, The Love Boat, Sliders, Star Trek: Voyager, Diagnosis:
Murder and Glee. He also made an appearance on Charles in Charge,
alongside his former Happy Days co-star, Scott Baio. He plays a man
who has just won the lottery and, as part of the cameo joke, he runs
up to Baio and waving the winning ticket shouts, "It looks like happy
days are here again!" (He also receives several looks from Baio that
suggests familiarity throughout the episode.) He is sometimes credited
as "Donny Most."Most performed as a voice actor on several Saturday
morning cartoon series. Among these roles were: Ralph Malph on The
Fonz and the Happy Days Gang (1980); Eric the Cavalier in Dungeons &
Dragons (1983); and Stiles on Teen Wolf (1986â€"1989). Most had a
cameo as himself in the fifth season Family Guy episode "It Takes a
Village Idiot, and I Married One" in 2007.
best known for his role as Ralph Malph on the television series Happy
Days.Most was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City. He
lived in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Erasmus Hall
High School in 1970. He attended Lehigh University for three years
from 1970 to 1973, but did not graduate. Originally intending to study
engineering, he changed his major to business after his first
semester. He made plans during his junior year to spend the summer of
1973 in search of acting jobs in Hollywood before completing his
studies at Lehigh. Instead, he landed the Ralph Malph role on his
third audition and moved to California to pursue acting full-time.
Most appeared on the 113th and final filmed but never aired episode of
Room 222, entitled "Jason and Big Mo", in the role of Louie, the
red-headed class wisecracker. David Jolliffe had handled the role of
Bernie, the red-headed class wisecracker, for all prior appearances.
Room 222 aired for the last time in January 1974, just as Happy Days
began, and on the same network, ABC.Most played jokester Ralph on
Happy Days, appearing up until the eighth season and then in the final
season in a guest role. Most has appeared in other film and television
work. Film credits include Leo and Loree (1980), EDtv (1999), Planting
Melvin (2005) and The Great Buck Howard (2008). He also made the
regular round of guest appearances on TV shows like Emergency!, CHiPs,
Baywatch, The Love Boat, Sliders, Star Trek: Voyager, Diagnosis:
Murder and Glee. He also made an appearance on Charles in Charge,
alongside his former Happy Days co-star, Scott Baio. He plays a man
who has just won the lottery and, as part of the cameo joke, he runs
up to Baio and waving the winning ticket shouts, "It looks like happy
days are here again!" (He also receives several looks from Baio that
suggests familiarity throughout the episode.) He is sometimes credited
as "Donny Most."Most performed as a voice actor on several Saturday
morning cartoon series. Among these roles were: Ralph Malph on The
Fonz and the Happy Days Gang (1980); Eric the Cavalier in Dungeons &
Dragons (1983); and Stiles on Teen Wolf (1986â€"1989). Most had a
cameo as himself in the fifth season Family Guy episode "It Takes a
Village Idiot, and I Married One" in 2007.
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