Known For
Acting
Born
May 22, 1900
Died
Feb 19, 1968
Place of Birth
Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA
Credits
192 titles
Ralph Dunn
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
Lieutenant Rooney
The Devil to Pay
The Furnace Man
The Pajama Game
Myron Hasler
Crowded Paradise
For Crimin' Out Loud
Baddie (archive footage)
Norby
Mr. Rudge
Summer Playhouse
Sentence of Death
Sergeant MacReynolds
Taxi
Rafferty (uncredited)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Lieutenant Rooney
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
The Enforcer
Lux Video Theatre
Mitch
No Way Out
Sam (uncredited)
The Asphalt Jungle
Policeman (uncredited)
The Great Plane Robbery
Police Inspector Bruce
Singing Guns
Traveler
The Secret Fury
Police Sergeant McCafferty (uncredited)
Robert Montgomery Presents
Mr. Soft Touch
Tollgate Policeman (Uncredited)
The Lost Tribe
Capt. Rawlins
Homicide
Department of Employment Clerk
The Walking Hills
Who Done It?
Leader of Phantom Gang
Miss Mink of 1949
Mr. McKelvey
Studio One
Sergeant MacReynolds
Mummy's Dummies
Rhadames
Incident
Bugs
The Golden Eye
Jim. Driscoll
Lady at Midnight
Al Garrity
Train to Alcatraz
Mark Stevens
Jinx Money
Jake 'Cold Deck' Shapiro
King of the Gamblers
Cassidy
My Girl Tisa
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Flophouse Bum (uncredited)
Dragnet
Police Sgt. Martin
News Hounds
'Dutch' Miller
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Stagehand (uncredited)
Deep Valley
Deputy
Heartaches
Police Detective (uncredited)
Possessed
Cable Car Motorman (uncredited)
Too Many Winners
Detective Peter Rafferty
Buck Privates Come Home
Ed - Guard on Midget Car (uncredited)
Three on a Ticket
Inspector Pete Rafferty
Undercover Maisie
Cop (uncredited)
Nora Prentiss
New York Detective (uncredited)
Lady in the Lake
Sergeant (Uncredited)
Lady Chaser
Brady
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Policeman (uncredited)
Nobody Lives Forever
Ben, Watchman / Henchman (uncredited)