Ralph Dunn
Acting
- Born:
- 1900-05-22
- Died:
- 1968-02-19
- Place of birth:
- Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Arsenic & Old Lace
The Devil to Pay
The Pajama Game
Crowded Paradise
For Crimin' Out Loud
Norby
Summer Playhouse
Sentence of Death
Taxi
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
The Enforcer
Lux Video Theatre
No Way Out
The Asphalt Jungle
The Great Plane Robbery
Singing Guns
The Secret Fury
Robert Montgomery Presents
On the Right Side
Mr. Soft Touch
The Lost Tribe
Homicide
The Walking Hills
Who Done It?
Miss Mink of 1949
Studio One
Mummy's Dummies
Incident
The Golden Eye
Lady at Midnight
Train to Alcatraz
Jinx Money
King of the Gamblers
My Girl Tisa
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Dragnet
News Hounds
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Deep Valley
Heartaches
Possessed
Too Many Winners
Three on a Ticket
Buck Privates Come Home
Undercover Maisie
Nora Prentiss
Lady in the Lake
Lady Chaser
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Nobody Lives Forever
The Strange Woman
Genius at Work
Sister Kenny
Gas House Kids
Big Town
Step by Step
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Larceny in Her Heart
The Dark Corner
The Truth About Murder
Deadline at Dawn
Murder Is My Business
From This Day Forward
Little Giant
Scarlet Street
Dick Tracy
Hold That Blonde!
Senorita from the West
Love, Honor and Goodbye
Anchors Aweigh
The Falcon in San Francisco
Along Came Jones
Phantoms, Inc.
Circumstantial Evidence
Escape in the Fog
Salty O'Rourke
Hollywood Canteen
Murder, My Sweet
The Woman in the Window
Laura
Strange Affair
Up in Mabel's Room
Dark Mountain
In Society
This Is the Life
Trial by Trigger
Follow the Boys
The Whistler
Phantom Lady
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Action in the North Atlantic
All by Myself
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Hangmen Also Die!
Mug Town
A Night to Remember
Keep 'Em Sailing
Strictly in the Groove
Lucky Jordan
I Married a Witch
Get Hep to Love
Moontide
Grand Central Murder
Twin Beds
Saboteur
Fingers at the Window
About Face
Blondie Goes to College
The Corsican Brothers
Pacific Blackout
I Wake Up Screaming
International Lady
Two Latins from Manhattan
Sun Valley Serenade
Manpower
In the Navy
The Lady from Cheyenne
Dead Men Tell
Sleepers West
Western Union
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Murder Over New York
Trail of the Vigilantes
Gallant Sons
So You Won't Talk?
Brigham Young
Public Deb No. 1
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
You're Not So Tough
We Who Are Young
New Moon
Phantom Raiders
Girl in 313
An Angel from Texas
Johnny Apollo
The Grapes of Wrath
Double Alibi
Castle on the Hudson
The Fighting 69th
The Saint's Double Trouble
His Girl Friday
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
The Green Hornet
Invisible Stripes
Another Thin Man
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Smashing the Money Ring
Desperate Trails
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Indianapolis Speedway
I Stole a Million
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Blind Alley
Rose of Washington Square
The Return of the Cisco Kid
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Sergeant Madden
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Tail Spin
Scouts to the Rescue
Next Time I Marry
Storm Over Bengal
Straight, Place and Show
Garden of the Moon
Tenth Avenue Kid
Gateway
Numbered Woman
Over the Wall
A Slight Case of Murder
The Patient in Room 18
Borrowing Trouble
Big Town Girl
Alcatraz Island
The Wrong Road
Hot Water
The Game That Kills
Dangerously Yours
One Mile from Heaven
White Bondage
Kid Galahad
The Go-Getter
Melody for Two
Marked Woman
Penrod and Sam
The Great O'Malley
Fugitive in the Sky
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
China Clipper
Bullets or Ballots
Stranded
Lady Killer
The Crowd Roars