Ralph Dunn
Acting
Born: 1900-05-22 in 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
Robert Montgomery Presents
Studio One
Sergeant MacReynolds
The Grapes of Wrath
Deputy (uncredited)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Flophouse Bum (uncredited)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Soldier (uncredited)
His Girl Friday
Plainclothesman (uncredited)
The Enforcer
In the Navy
Cop Who Gives Pomeroy a Ticket (uncredited)
Laura
Fred Callahan (uncredited)
Murder, My Sweet
Detective (uncredited)
The Asphalt Jungle
Policeman (uncredited)
Scarlet Street
First Policeman in Park (uncredited)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lieutenant Rooney
About Face
Marine (uncredited)
Anchors Aweigh
Hollywood Bowl Cop (uncredited)
Undercover Maisie
Cop (uncredited)
Storm Over Bengal
Soldier
No Way Out
Sam (uncredited)
I Married a Witch
First Prison Guard (uncredited)
Hollywood Canteen
Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
Brigham Young
Jury Foreman
Kid Galahad
Reporter at Banquet (uncredited)
The Woman in the Window
Traffic Cop (uncredited)
Saboteur
FBU Agent at Mason's House (uncredited)
Lady Chaser
Brady
Western Union
Work Seeker
Marked Woman
Court Clerk #1 (uncredited)
Summer Playhouse
Hangmen Also Die!
Czech Policeman (uncredited)
Buck Privates Come Home
Ed - Guard on Midget Car (uncredited)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Dick Tracy
Detective Manning (uncredited)
Action in the North Atlantic
Quartermaster (uncredited)
Hold That Blonde!
Radio Cop (uncredited)
So You Won't Talk?
Police Lieutenant
Phantom Lady
Worker (uncredited)
The Strange Woman
Lumberjack (uncredited)
International Lady
Don
Another Thin Man
Baggage Man (uncredited)