Ralph Dunn
Acting
1900-05-22 · Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
movieArsenic & Old Lace
as Lieutenant Rooney · 1962 · 6.5
movieThe Devil to Pay
as The Furnace Man · 1960 · 7.0
movieThe Pajama Game
as Myron Hasler · 1957 · 6.3
movieCrowded Paradise
as · 1956 · 8.0
movieFor Crimin' Out Loud
as Baddie (archive footage) · 1956 · 6.7
tvNorby
as Mr. Rudge · 1955 · 7.0
tvSummer Playhouse
as · 1954 · 0.0
movieSentence of Death
as Sergeant MacReynolds · 1953 · 7.3
movieTaxi
as Rafferty (uncredited) · 1953 · 6.8
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
as Lieutenant Rooney · 1951 · 8.8
movieBud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited) · 1951 · 6.3
movieThe Enforcer
as · 1951 · 7.1
tvLux Video Theatre
as Mitch · 1950 · 6.7
movieNo Way Out
as Sam (uncredited) · 1950 · 6.9
movieThe Asphalt Jungle
as Policeman (uncredited) · 1950 · 7.5
movieThe Great Plane Robbery
as Police Inspector Bruce · 1950 · 8.0
movieSinging Guns
as Traveler · 1950 · 6.4
movieThe Secret Fury
as Police Sergeant McCafferty (uncredited) · 1950 · 5.5
tvRobert Montgomery Presents
as · 1950 · 6.0
movieMr. Soft Touch
as Tollgate Policeman (Uncredited) · 1949 · 6.8
movieThe Lost Tribe
as Capt. Rawlins · 1949 · 5.8
movieHomicide
as Department of Employment Clerk · 1949 · 5.7
movieThe Walking Hills
as · 1949 · 6.1
movieWho Done It?
as Leader of Phantom Gang · 1949 · 7.6