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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.
As actor
Arsenic & Old Lace
The Devil to Pay
The Pajama Game
For Crimin' Out Loud
Crowded Paradise
Taxi
Sentence of Death
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
The Enforcer
Singing Guns
The Asphalt Jungle
The Secret Fury
No Way Out
The Great Plane Robbery
Who Done It?
The Walking Hills
The Lost Tribe
Miss Mink of 1949
Homicide
Mr. Soft Touch
My Girl Tisa
The Golden Eye
Train to Alcatraz
Lady at Midnight
Mummy's Dummies
Incident
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Jinx Money
King of the Gamblers
Too Many Winners