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.
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Movies (44)
Arsenic & Old Lace
as Lt. Rooney
1962
The Devil to Pay
as The Furnace Man
1960
The Pajama Game
as Myron Hasler
1957
Crowded Paradise
1956
For Crimin' Out Loud
as Baddie (archive footage)
1956
Sentence of Death
as Sergeant MacReynolds
1953
Taxi
as Rafferty (uncredited)
1953
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
1951
The Enforcer
1951
No Way Out
as Sam (uncredited)
1950
The Asphalt Jungle
as Policeman (uncredited)
1950
The Great Plane Robbery
as Police Inspector Bruce
1950
Singing Guns
as Traveler
1950
The Secret Fury
as Police Sergeant McCafferty (uncredited)
1950
Mr. Soft Touch
as Tollgate Policeman (Uncredited)
1949
The Lost Tribe
as Capt. Rawlins
1949
Homicide
as Department of Employment Clerk
1949
The Walking Hills
1949
Who Done It?
as Leader of Phantom Gang
1949
Miss Mink of 1949
as Mr. McKelvey
1949
Mummy's Dummies
as Rhadames
1948
Incident
as Bugs
1948
The Golden Eye
as Jim. Driscoll
1948
Lady at Midnight
as Al Garrity
1948
Train to Alcatraz
as Mark Stevens
1948
Jinx Money
as Jake 'Cold Deck' Shapiro
1948
My Girl Tisa
1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
as Flophouse Bum (uncredited)
1948
Dragnet
as Police Sgt. Martin
1947
News Hounds
as 'Dutch' Miller
1947
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
as Stagehand (uncredited)
1947
Deep Valley
as Deputy
1947
Heartaches
as Police Detective (uncredited)
1947
Possessed
as Cable Car Motorman (uncredited)
1947
Too Many Winners
as Detective Peter Rafferty
1947
Three on a Ticket
as Inspector Pete Rafferty
1947
Buck Privates Come Home
as Ed - Guard on Midget Car (uncredited)
1947
Undercover Maisie
as Cop (Uncredited)
1947
Nora Prentiss
as New York Detective (uncredited)
1947
Lady in the Lake
as Sergeant (Uncredited)
1946
Lady Chaser
as Brady
1946
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
as Policeman (uncredited)
1946
Nobody Lives Forever
as Ben, Watchman / Henchman (uncredited)
1946
The Strange Woman
as Lumberjack (uncredited)
1946
