Ralph Dunn
Actor
- Born
- May 22, 1900 · Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- February 19, 1968 (age 67)
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.
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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
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
January 15, 1948
The Grapes of Wrath
March 15, 1940
His Girl Friday
January 18, 1940
Laura
October 11, 1944
Saboteur
April 22, 1942
The Asphalt Jungle
May 12, 1950
Scarlet Street
December 25, 1945
The Woman in the Window
October 25, 1944
Murder, My Sweet
December 14, 1944
I Married a Witch
October 30, 1942
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
August 31, 1939
Anchors Aweigh
August 13, 1945
Acting187
- 1962Arsenic & Old Lace as Lieutenant Rooney
- 1960The Devil to Pay as The Furnace Man
- 1957The Pajama Game as Myron Hasler
- 1956Crowded Paradise
- 1956For Crimin' Out Loud as Baddie (archive footage)
- 1953Sentence of Death as Sergeant MacReynolds
- 1953Taxi as Rafferty (uncredited)
- 1951Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- 1951The Enforcer
- 1950No Way Out as Sam (uncredited)