Actor. He will be best remembered for his role as the 'District Attorney' in the crime drama film, "Bitter Sweet" (1928). He was born one of twelve children as Richard Wize Belfield in the Chestnut Hill area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Thomas Broom Belfield (1838-1931), and his wife Elizabeth Russell Long Belfield (1841-1897), on July 23, 1873. He also had three half-siblings. He was educated locally and eventually attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, married, and continued to live and work for a time in Pennsylvania. He was drafted into the United States Army while working as a District Sales Manager for the A.M. Byers Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He eventually moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue an acting career. He made his actual film debut playing the role of 'Banker Brown' in the action-adventure western romance film, "Galloping On" (1925). The film which was directed by Richard Thorpe, and which also starred Hal Taliaferro, Jessie Cruzon, Louis Lester, and Slim Whitaker, tells the story of Wally who returns from prison having been framed by outlaw Bowers and Banker Brown. When Wally and Bowers fight, Wally is jailed. Getting the Sheriff and posse out of town, Bowers robs Brown's bank to get the note implicating him in Wally's crime. Helen seeing the robbery frees Wally who starts out single-handed after the gang. During his relativity short acting career, he was also known as Richard Belfield or Richard Wise Belfield and he played a banker, a police officer, and a district attorney, in only four films, Besides, "Galloping On" (1925), and "Bitter Sweets" (1928), his other two films include, "Jazzland" (1928, as 'Mr. Baggott'), and "Angora Love" (1929, in the uncredited role of a 'Policeman'). He retired from acting shortly thereafter. He was married three times, first to Millicent Eliza Spiece Belfield (1873-1921), on April 19, 1899, at Ardmore, Pennsylvania, until her death on January 2, 1931, secondly to Adrienne Grace Belfield, date unknown, in Los Angeles, California, and thirdly to Bertha Blake Wedscheider Kelly Belfield on August 9, 1934, in Charlevoix, Michigan, until his death on January 2, 1940. She survived her husband and passed away on November 24, 1959, at the age of 82.