Ralph Dunn

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.

Filmography (191 Appearances)

Arsenic & Old Lace

1962

The Devil to Pay

1960

The Pajama Game

1957

Crowded Paradise

1956

For Crimin' Out Loud

1956

Norby

1955

Summer Playhouse

1954

Sentence of Death

1953

Taxi

1953

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

1951

The Enforcer

1951

Lux Video Theatre

1950

No Way Out

1950

The Asphalt Jungle

1950

The Great Plane Robbery

1950

Singing Guns

1950

The Secret Fury

1950

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950

Mr. Soft Touch

1949

The Lost Tribe

1949

Homicide

1949

The Walking Hills

1949

Who Done It?

1949

Miss Mink of 1949

1949

Studio One

1948

Mummy's Dummies

1948

Incident

1948

The Golden Eye

1948

Lady at Midnight

1948

Train to Alcatraz

1948

Jinx Money

1948

King of the Gamblers

1948

My Girl Tisa

1948

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948

Dragnet

1947

News Hounds

1947

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

1947

Deep Valley

1947

Heartaches

1947

Possessed

1947

Too Many Winners

1947

Buck Privates Come Home

1947

Three on a Ticket

1947

Undercover Maisie

1947

Nora Prentiss

1947

Lady in the Lake

1946

Lady Chaser

1946

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

1946

Nobody Lives Forever

1946

The Strange Woman

1946

Genius at Work

1946

Sister Kenny

1946

Gas House Kids

1946

Step by Step

1946

Big Town

1946

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

1946

Larceny in Her Heart

1946

The Dark Corner

1946

The Truth About Murder

1946

Deadline at Dawn

1946

Murder Is My Business

1946

From This Day Forward

1946

Little Giant

1946

Scarlet Street

1945

Dick Tracy

1945

Hold That Blonde!

1945

Senorita from the West

1945

Love, Honor and Goodbye

1945

Anchors Aweigh

1945

The Falcon in San Francisco

1945

Along Came Jones

1945

Phantoms, Inc.

1945

Circumstantial Evidence

1945

Escape in the Fog

1945

Salty O'Rourke

1945

Hollywood Canteen

1944

Murder, My Sweet

1944

The Woman in the Window

1944

Laura

1944

Strange Affair

1944

Up in Mabel's Room

1944

Dark Mountain

1944

In Society

1944

Trial by Trigger

1944

Follow the Boys

1944

The Whistler

1944

Phantom Lady

1944

Thank Your Lucky Stars

1943

Action in the North Atlantic

1943

All by Myself

1943

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

1943

Hangmen Also Die!

1943

Mug Town

1942

A Night to Remember

1942

Keep 'Em Sailing

1942

Strictly in the Groove

1942

Lucky Jordan

1942

I Married a Witch

1942

Get Hep to Love

1942

Moontide

1942

Grand Central Murder

1942

Twin Beds

1942

Fingers at the Window

1942

Saboteur

1942

About Face

1942

Blondie Goes to College

1942

Pacific Blackout

1941

The Corsican Brothers

1941

I Wake Up Screaming

1941

International Lady

1941

Two Latins from Manhattan

1941

Sun Valley Serenade

1941

Manpower

1941

In the Navy

1941

The Lady from Cheyenne

1941

Dead Men Tell

1941

Sleepers West

1941

Western Union

1941

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

1940

Murder Over New York

1940

Trail of the Vigilantes

1940

Gallant Sons

1940

So You Won't Talk?

1940

Brigham Young

1940

Public Deb No. 1

1940

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

1940

You're Not So Tough

1940

We Who Are Young

1940

New Moon

1940

Phantom Raiders

1940

Girl in 313

1940

An Angel from Texas

1940

Johnny Apollo

1940

The Grapes of Wrath

1940

Double Alibi

1940

Castle on the Hudson

1940

The Fighting 69th

1940

The Saint's Double Trouble

1940

His Girl Friday

1940

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

1940

The Green Hornet

1940

Invisible Stripes

1939

Another Thin Man

1939

Blondie Brings Up Baby

1939

Smashing the Money Ring

1939

Desperate Trails

1939

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939

Indianapolis Speedway

1939

I Stole a Million

1939

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

1939

Blind Alley

1939

Rose of Washington Square

1939

The Return of the Cisco Kid

1939

Mr. Moto in Danger Island

1939

Sergeant Madden

1939

The Lone Ranger Rides Again

1939

Tail Spin

1939

Scouts to the Rescue

1939

Next Time I Marry

1938

Storm Over Bengal

1938

Straight, Place and Show

1938

Garden of the Moon

1938

Tenth Avenue Kid

1938

Gateway

1938

Numbered Woman

1938

Over the Wall

1938

A Slight Case of Murder

1938

The Patient in Room 18

1938

Borrowing Trouble

1937

Big Town Girl

1937

Alcatraz Island

1937

The Wrong Road

1937

Hot Water

1937

The Game That Kills

1937

Dangerously Yours

1937

One Mile from Heaven

1937

White Bondage

1937

Kid Galahad

1937

The Go-Getter

1937

Melody for Two

1937

Marked Woman

1937

Penrod and Sam

1937

The Great O'Malley

1937

Fugitive in the Sky

1936

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

1936

China Clipper

1936

Bullets or Ballots

1936

Stranded

1935

Lady Killer

1933

The Crowd Roars

1932 Debut
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