Ralph Dunn
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Grapes of Wrath
as Deputy (uncredited) 1940
His Girl Friday
as Plainclothesman (uncredited) 1940
Laura
as Fred Callahan (uncredited) 1944
Saboteur
as FBU Agent at Mason's House (uncredited) 1942
The Asphalt Jungle
as Policeman (uncredited) 1950
Scarlet Street
as First Policeman in Park (uncredited) 1945
The Woman in the Window
as Traffic Cop (uncredited) 1944
Murder, My Sweet
as Detective (uncredited) 1944
I Married a Witch
as First Prison Guard (uncredited) 1942
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Soldier (uncredited) 1939
Anchors Aweigh
as Hollywood Bowl Cop (uncredited) 1945
Hangmen Also Die!
as Czech Policeman (uncredited) 1943
Phantom Lady
as Worker (uncredited) 1944
Another Thin Man
as Baggage Man (uncredited) 1939
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited) 1951
Lady in the Lake
as Sergeant (Uncredited) 1946