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Ralph Dunn was an American film, television, and stage actor.
1941
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.
Gender
Male
Birthday
May 22, 1900
Died
February 19, 1968
Birthplace
Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA
Sleepers West
1941
Double Alibi
1940
The Golden Eye
1948
The Whistler
1944
The Dark Corner
1946
Western Union
1941
We Who Are Young
1940
Senorita from the West
1945
The Lost Tribe
1949
For Crimin' Out Loud
1956
Alcatraz Island
1937
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Lucky Jordan
1942
The Corsican Brothers
1941
Larceny in Her Heart
1946
Dead Men Tell
1941
Over the Wall
1938
Salty O'Rourke
1945
Crowded Paradise
1956
Borrowing Trouble
1937
+ 164 more movies