Ralph Dunn
Ralph Dunn | |
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Born | Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA |
May 23, 1900
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Flushing, Queens, New York, USA |
Years active | 1932 — 1967[1] |
Ralph Dunn (May 23, 1900 – February 19, 1968) was an American film, television, and stage actor.
Career
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.
Partial filmography
- Scouts to the Rescue (1939) serial
- Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)
- International Lady (1941)
- Pacific Blackout (1941)
- Strictly in the Groove (1942)
- Ship Ahoy (1942)
- Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood (1942)
- Murder, My Sweet (1944)
- Gas House Kids (1946)
- From This Day Forward (1946)
- For the Love of Rusty (1947)
- Too Many Winners (1947)
- The Golden Eye (1948)
- The Admiral Was a Lady (1950)
- The Pajama Game (1957)
References
External links
- Ralph Dunn at the Internet Movie Database
- Ralph Dunn at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Ralph Dunn on TCM
- Ralph Dunn on Rotten Tomatoes
- Ralph Dunn on Answers.com
- Articles with hCards
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- 1900 births
- 1967 deaths
- People from Titusville, Pennsylvania
- American people of Scotch-Irish descent
- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- American male silent film actors
- American male stage actors
- Male actors from Pennsylvania
- People from Queens, New York
- 20th-century American male actors