Ralph Dunn
- Acting
- May 22, 1900 · Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA
- February 19, 1968
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Arsenic & Old Lace · Lieutenant Rooney
- The Devil to Pay · The Furnace Man
- The Pajama Game · Myron Hasler
- Crowded Paradise
- For Crimin' Out Loud · Baddie (archive footage)
- Norby · Mr. Rudge
- Summer Playhouse
- Sentence of Death · Sergeant MacReynolds
- Taxi · Rafferty (uncredited)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame · Lieutenant Rooney
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man · Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- The Enforcer
- Lux Video Theatre · Mitch
- No Way Out · Sam (uncredited)
- The Asphalt Jungle · Policeman (uncredited)
- The Great Plane Robbery · Police Inspector Bruce
- Singing Guns · Traveler
- The Secret Fury · Police Sergeant McCafferty (uncredited)
- Robert Montgomery Presents
- On the Right Side · Hood
- Mr. Soft Touch · Tollgate Policeman (Uncredited)
- The Lost Tribe · Capt. Rawlins
- Homicide · Department of Employment Clerk
- The Walking Hills
- Who Done It? · Leader of Phantom Gang
- Miss Mink of 1949 · Mr. McKelvey
- Studio One · Sergeant MacReynolds
- Mummy's Dummies · Rhadames
- Incident · Bugs
- The Golden Eye · Jim. Driscoll
- Lady at Midnight · Al Garrity
- Train to Alcatraz · Mark Stevens
- Jinx Money · Jake 'Cold Deck' Shapiro
- King of the Gamblers · Cassidy
- My Girl Tisa
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre · Flophouse Bum (uncredited)
- Dragnet · Police Sgt. Martin
- News Hounds · 'Dutch' Miller
- I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now · Stagehand (uncredited)
- Deep Valley · Deputy
- Heartaches · Police Detective (uncredited)
- Possessed · Cable Car Motorman (uncredited)
- Too Many Winners · Detective Peter Rafferty
- Three on a Ticket · Inspector Pete Rafferty
- Buck Privates Come Home · Ed - Guard on Midget Car (uncredited)
- Undercover Maisie · Cop (uncredited)
- Nora Prentiss · New York Detective (uncredited)
- Lady in the Lake · Sergeant (Uncredited)
- Lady Chaser · Brady
- Dick Tracy vs. Cueball · Policeman (uncredited)
- Nobody Lives Forever · Ben, Watchman / Henchman (uncredited)
- The Strange Woman · Lumberjack (uncredited)
- Genius at Work · Lt. Gilley
- Sister Kenny · Brisbane Policeman (uncredited)
- Gas House Kids · Detective O'Hara
- Big Town · Mac- Policeman (uncredited)
- Step by Step · Patrol Car Cop
- The Walls Came Tumbling Down · Policeman
- Larceny in Her Heart · Det. Sgt. Pete Rafferty
- The Dark Corner · Policeman at Gallery (uncredited)
- The Truth About Murder · Police Detective Faber (uncredited)
- Deadline at Dawn · Capt. Dill (uncredited)
- Murder Is My Business · Pete Rafferty
- From This Day Forward · Bailiff
- Little Giant · Passenger in Lower Berth #6 (uncredited)
- Scarlet Street · First Policeman in Park (uncredited)
- Dick Tracy · Detective Manning (uncredited)
- Hold That Blonde! · Radio Cop (uncredited)
- Senorita from the West · Man (uncredited)
- Love, Honor and Goodbye · Detective
- Anchors Aweigh · Hollywood Bowl Cop (uncredited)
- The Falcon in San Francisco · Arresting Policeman (uncredited)
- Along Came Jones · Cotton (uncredited)
- Phantoms, Inc. · Detective Lester
- Circumstantial Evidence · Cleary, the Cop
- Escape in the Fog · Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Salty O'Rourke · Guard at Jewelry Store (uncredited)
- Hollywood Canteen · Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
- Murder, My Sweet · Detective (uncredited)
- The Woman in the Window · Traffic Cop (uncredited)