Ralph Dunn

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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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1962
Arsenic & Old Lace
Movie Lieutenant Rooney
1960
The Devil to Pay
Movie The Furnace Man
1957
The Pajama Game
Movie Myron Hasler
1956
Crowded Paradise
Movie
1956
For Crimin' Out Loud
Movie Baddie (archive footage)
1955
Norby
TV show Mr. Rudge
1954
Summer Playhouse
TV show
1953
Sentence of Death
Movie Sergeant MacReynolds
1953
Taxi
Movie Rafferty (uncredited)
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV show Lieutenant Rooney
1951
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Movie Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
1951
The Enforcer
Movie
1950
Lux Video Theatre
TV show Mitch
1950
No Way Out
Movie Sam (uncredited)
1950
The Asphalt Jungle
Movie Policeman (uncredited)
1950
The Great Plane Robbery
Movie Police Inspector Bruce