Ralph Dunn
Born May 22, 1900 (Age: 125)
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Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
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.
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Filmography
Arsenic & Old Lace
1962
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as Lt. Rooney
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Age: 61
The Devil to Pay
1960
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as The Furnace Man
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Age: 60
Crowded Paradise
1956
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Age: 56
For Crimin' Out Loud
1956
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as Baddie (archive footage)
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Age: 55
Sentence of Death
1953
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as Sergeant MacReynolds
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Age: 53
Taxi
1953
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as Rafferty (uncredited)
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Age: 52
No Way Out
1950
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as Sam (uncredited)
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Age: 50
The Asphalt Jungle
1950
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as Policeman (uncredited)
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Age: 49
No Image
The Great Plane Robbery
1950
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as Police Inspector Bruce
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Age: 49
Singing Guns
1950
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as Traveler
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Age: 49
The Secret Fury
1950
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as Police Sergeant McCafferty (uncredited)
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Age: 49
Scarlet Street
1945
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as First Policeman in Park (uncredited)
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Age: 45
Dick Tracy
1945
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as Detective Manning (uncredited)
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Age: 45
Hold That Blonde!
1945
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as Radio Cop (uncredited)
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Age: 45
Senorita from the West
1945
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as Man (uncredited)
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Age: 45
Love, Honor and Goodbye
1945
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as Detective
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Age: 45
Anchors Aweigh
1945
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as Hollywood Bowl Cop (uncredited)
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Age: 45
The Falcon in San Francisco
1945
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as Arresting Policeman (uncredited)
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Age: 45
Along Came Jones
1945
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as Cotton (uncredited)
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Age: 45
Phantoms, Inc.
1945
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as Detective Lester
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Age: 45
Circumstantial Evidence
1945
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as Cleary, the Cop
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Age: 44
Escape in the Fog
1945
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as Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
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Age: 44
Salty O'Rourke
1945
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as Guard at Jewelry Store (uncredited)
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Age: 44
Mug Town
1942
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as Cop
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Age: 42
A Night to Remember
1942
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as Henderson (uncredited)
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Age: 42
Keep 'Em Sailing
1942
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as Vic, Stregel's Thug (uncredited)
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Age: 42
Strictly in the Groove
1942
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as Big Boy
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Age: 42
Lucky Jordan
1942
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as Army Guard
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Age: 42
I Married a Witch
1942
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as First Prison Guard (uncredited)
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Age: 42
Get Hep to Love
1942
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as Policeman Making Bet
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Age: 42
Moontide
1942
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as Policeman
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Age: 42
Grand Central Murder
1942
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as Policeman (uncredited)
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Age: 41
Twin Beds
1942
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as Detective
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Age: 41
Fingers at the Window
1942
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as Policeman Outside Clinic (uncredited)
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Age: 41
Saboteur
1942
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as FBU Agent at Mason's House (uncredited)
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Age: 41
About Face
1942
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as Marine (uncredited)
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Age: 41
Blondie Goes to College
1942
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as Joes, 2nd Motorcycle Policeman
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Age: 41
Pacific Blackout
1941
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as Cop
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Age: 41
The Corsican Brothers
1941
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as Messenger, Arturo's Steward (Uncredited)
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Age: 41
I Wake Up Screaming
1941
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as Detective (uncredited)
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Age: 41
International Lady
1941
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as Don
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Age: 41
Two Latins from Manhattan
1941
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as Federal Agent
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Age: 41
Sun Valley Serenade
1941
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as Customs Officer
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Age: 41
Manpower
1941
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as Man Calling Sweeney (uncredited)
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Age: 41
In the Navy
1941
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as Cop Who Gives Pomeroy a Ticket (uncredited)
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Age: 41
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
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as Mayor Barney Davies, Cork's Henchman
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Age: 40
Dead Men Tell
1941
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as Homicide Desk Sergeant
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Age: 40
Sleepers West
1941
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as
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Age: 40
Western Union
1941
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as Work Seeker
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Age: 40
The Crowd Roars
1932
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as Racetrack Official
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Age: 31