Ralph Dunn

Known for ActingBorn 1900-05-22Died 1968-02-19Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA

Ralph Dunn was an American film, television, and stage actor. Dunn was born in Titusville, Pennsylvania and spent early years living with relatives in Canton, Illinois. Dunn's father was a veterinarian for the U.S. Army during WWI, and his mother was an actress. Dunn was enrolled briefly at the University of Pennsylvania, but left after one day to join a Vaudeville troupe. Ralph Dunn used his burly body and rich, theatrical voice to good effect in hundreds of minor feature-film roles and supporting appearances in two-reel comedies. He came to Hollywood during the early talkie era, beginning his film career with 1932's The Crowd Roars. A large man with a withering glare, Dunn was an ideal "opposite" for short, bumbling comedians. A frequent visitor to the Columbia short subjects unit, Dunn showed up in the Three Stooges comedies Mummy's Dummies, as well as Who Done It? and its remake, For Crimin' Out Loud Dunn kept busy into the 1960s, appearing in such TV series as Kitty Foyle, and Norby and such films as Black Like Me.Read more

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Trail of the Vigilantes

Scouts to the Rescue

My Girl Tisa

Lady at Midnight

Strictly in the Groove

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Mug Town

Crowded Paradise

The Great Plane Robbery

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Undercover Maisie

Murder Is My Business

All by Myself

I Stole a Million

The Grapes of Wrath

Who Done It?

Scarlet Street

Laura

The Asphalt Jungle

Train to Alcatraz

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

Keep 'Em Sailing

Sergeant Madden

Tenth Avenue Kid

The Woman in the Window

Sentence of Death

Gallant Sons

Lucky Jordan

Dragnet

His Girl Friday

Gateway

Hollywood Canteen

The Lone Ranger Rides Again

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Murder, My Sweet

Next Time I Marry

The Enforcer

The Devil to Pay

Norby

Another Thin Man

Sun Valley Serenade

Action in the North Atlantic

King of the Gamblers

Gas House Kids

Lady Chaser

Phantom Lady

Get Hep to Love

No Way Out