Ralph (often called by his nickname "Crazy Ralph") was a character in the films Friday the 13th and its sequel Friday the 13th Part 2. A long time resident of Crystal Lake, Ralph was well known for drunkenly wandering around the town on his bicycle rambling about the death curse on Camp Crystal Lake. He was portrayed by the late Walt Gorney.
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After the supposed drowning of Jason Voorhees at Camp Crystal Lake in 1957 and the murder of a pair of camp counselors named Barry Jackson and Claudette Hayes on the campground a year afterward, Ralph became convinced the camp was cursed and began to warn the townsfolk to stay away from it, claiming that the God told him to ward others away from the accursed area. Due to his alcoholism, Ralph was largely ignored by his neighbors. During one of his rants, Ralph would almost lose his life when he wandered onto the Flanagan farm in the middle of a stormy night, starling Jack Flanagan into almost blowing Ralph away with his shotgun. Before leaving Flanagan's farm, Ralph would claim to Jack that he alone knew what was going on under the lake.
In 1979, when Steve Christy began repairing the rundown Camp Crystal Lake in preparation of its reopening, Ralph confronted the recently hired camp cook named Annie Phillips and a truck driver named Enos outside of the town diner, correctly assuming the two were going to Camp Crystal Lake. Ominously warning the pair that going to the camp would send to their deaths, Ralph was shooed away by an annoyed Enos. When Enos and Annie drove off in Enos's truck, Ralph subsequently rode away on his bike to places unknown. Later, Ralph's wife, figuring he got lost, contacted Sgt. Tierney. Tierney ordered Officer Dorf to scout the area. Dorf went to Camp Crystal Lake where he was met by some counselors, and said that Ralph was wanted by police, saying that when he is away from home for extended periods of time, he gets drunk, proselytizes to people (often frightening them), gets arrested by police, and then sent before the judge, who usually sentences Ralph to a week's imprisonment for drunk and disorderly conduct.
Traveling to Camp Crystal Lake, Ralph snuck into the kitchen and hid in the pantry, startling three camp counselors named Alice Hardy, Ned Rubenstein and Marcie Stanler when she opened the pantry door and found him standing in the middle of the room. Giving his usual warning of the camp being cursed to Alice and her friends, Ralph took off on his bicycle.
In 1984, five years after Pamela Voorhees went on a murderous rampage at Camp Crystal Lake and killed Steve Christy and all his employees in cold blood without showing any remorse, except Alice Hardy, Ralph continued his doom saying, telling Jeff and Sandra Dier, a pair of teenagers traveling to the Packanack Lodge counselor training center near Camp Crystal Lake, to stay away from the lake, lest they be killed like the others from half a decade earlier. As always, Ralph's warnings fell on deaf ears. Ralph is then killed by Jason Voorhees in cold blood with a string of barbed wire, garroting him with it against a tree. He is the second victim of Jason Voorhees after Alice Hardy.