Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1900-05-22
Day of Death
1968-02-19
Place of Birth
Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA
Ralph Dunn
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 (185)
Arsenic & Old Lace
1962
The Devil to Pay
1960
The Pajama Game
1957
Crowded Paradise
1956
For Crimin' Out Loud
1956
Sentence of Death
1953
Taxi
1953
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951
The Enforcer
1951
No Way Out
1950
The Asphalt Jungle
1950The Great Plane Robbery
1950
Singing Guns
1950
The Secret Fury
1950
