Ralph Dunn
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.
Acting
Movie
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
as Flophouse Bum (uncredited)
1948
Movie
The Grapes of Wrath
as Deputy (uncredited)
1940
Movie
His Girl Friday
as Plainclothesman (uncredited)
1940
Movie
Laura
as Fred Callahan (uncredited)
1944
Movie
Saboteur
as FBU Agent at Mason's House (uncredited)
1942
Movie
The Asphalt Jungle
as Policeman (uncredited)
1950
Movie
Scarlet Street
as First Policeman in Park (uncredited)
1945
Movie
The Woman in the Window
as Traffic Cop (uncredited)
1944
Movie
Murder, My Sweet
as Detective (uncredited)
1944
Movie
I Married a Witch
as First Prison Guard (uncredited)
1942
Movie
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Soldier (uncredited)
1939
Movie
Anchors Aweigh
as Hollywood Bowl Cop (uncredited)
1945
Movie
Hangmen Also Die!
as Czech Policeman (uncredited)
1943
Movie
Another Thin Man
as Baggage Man (uncredited)
1939
Movie
Phantom Lady
as Worker (uncredited)
1944
Movie
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
1951
Movie
The Enforcer
1951
Movie
Lady in the Lake
as Sergeant (Uncredited)
1946
Movie
No Way Out
as Sam (uncredited)
1950
Movie
Possessed
as Cable Car Motorman (uncredited)
1947
Movie
Western Union
as Work Seeker
1941
Movie
I Wake Up Screaming
as Detective (uncredited)
1941
Movie
Marked Woman
as Court Clerk #1 (uncredited)
1937
Movie
The Pajama Game
as Myron Hasler
1957