Ralph Dunn
Known for: Acting
Born: May 22, 1900
Died: February 19, 1968
Place of birth: Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA
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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Filmography
186 movies · 6 TV shows, newest first
6.5
Arsenic & Old Lace
1962
7.0
The Devil to Pay
1960
6.3
The Pajama Game
1957
8.0
Crowded Paradise
1956
6.7
For Crimin' Out Loud
19567.0
Norby
1955NR
Summer Playhouse
1954
6.5
Sentence of Death
1953
6.8
Taxi
1953
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
6.3
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951
7.1
The Enforcer
19516.7
Lux Video Theatre
1950
6.9
No Way Out
1950
7.5
The Asphalt Jungle
19508.0
The Great Plane Robbery
1950
6.4
Singing Guns
1950
5.5
The Secret Fury
1950
6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
6.8
Mr. Soft Touch
1949
5.8
The Lost Tribe
1949
5.7
Homicide
1949
6.0
The Walking Hills
1949
7.6
Who Done It?
1949
5.7
Miss Mink of 1949
1949
5.4
Studio One
1948
6.6
Mummy's Dummies
1948
5.4
Incident
1948
5.6
The Golden Eye
1948
9.0
Lady at Midnight
19487.7
Train to Alcatraz
1948
5.6
Jinx Money
1948
7.0
King of the Gamblers
1948
9.0
My Girl Tisa
1948
8.0
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
7.3
Dragnet
1947
6.8
News Hounds
1947
7.5
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
1947
5.6
Deep Valley
1947
5.3
Heartaches
1947
6.9
Possessed
1947
6.0
Too Many Winners
1947
6.0
Three on a Ticket
1947
6.4
Buck Privates Come Home
1947
8.0
Undercover Maisie
1947
6.2
Nora Prentiss
1947
6.1
Lady in the Lake
1946
7.0
Lady Chaser
1946
5.5
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
1946
6.4
Nobody Lives Forever
1946
6.2
The Strange Woman
1946
6.7
Genius at Work
1946
6.9
Sister Kenny
1946
7.0
Gas House Kids
1946
5.5
Big Town
1946
6.2
Step by Step
1946
6.2
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
1946
6.0
Larceny in Her Heart
1946
6.6
The Dark Corner
1946
4.8
The Truth About Murder
1946
6.2
Deadline at Dawn
1946
8.0
Murder Is My Business
1946
5.4
From This Day Forward
1946
5.3
Little Giant
1946
7.6
Scarlet Street
1945
5.3
Dick Tracy
1945
6.3
Hold That Blonde!
1945
6.0
Senorita from the West
1945
5.5
Love, Honor and Goodbye
1945
6.8
Anchors Aweigh
1945
6.2
The Falcon in San Francisco
1945
5.8
Along Came Jones
1945
6.0
Phantoms, Inc.
1945
5.2
Circumstantial Evidence
1945
5.4
Escape in the Fog
1945
6.0
Salty O'Rourke
1945
7.3
Hollywood Canteen
1944
7.2
Murder, My Sweet
1944
7.4
The Woman in the Window
1944
7.6
Laura
1944
6.2
Strange Affair
1944
5.7
Up in Mabel's Room
1944
5.3
Dark Mountain
1944
5.8
In Society
1944
6.0
This Is the Life
1944
5.7
Trial by Trigger
1944
5.7
Follow the Boys
1944
6.0
The Whistler
1944
7.0
Phantom Lady
1944
6.2
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
7.1
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
8.0
All by Myself
1943
6.0
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943
6.9
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
8.5
Mug Town
1942
6.7
A Night to Remember
1942
7.5
Keep 'Em Sailing
1942
9.0
Strictly in the Groove
1942
7.4
Lucky Jordan
1942
6.9
I Married a Witch
1942
7.0
Get Hep to Love
1942
6.4
Moontide
1942
5.7
Grand Central Murder
1942
3.8
Twin Beds
1942
6.9
Saboteur
1942
5.7
Fingers at the Window
1942
6.6
About Face
1942
6.6
Blondie Goes to College
1942
7.0
The Corsican Brothers
1942
6.6
Pacific Blackout
1941
6.9
I Wake Up Screaming
1941
6.6
International Lady
1941
6.0
Two Latins from Manhattan
1941
7.1
Sun Valley Serenade
1941
6.5
Manpower
1941
6.4
In the Navy
1941
5.7
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
6.5
Dead Men Tell
1941
6.4
Sleepers West
1941
6.0
Western Union
1941
6.6
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
1940
6.2
Murder Over New York
1940
10.0
Trail of the Vigilantes
1940
7.4
Gallant Sons
1940
5.8
So You Won't Talk?
1940
4.6
Brigham Young
1940
4.9
Public Deb No. 1
1940
6.8
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
1940
5.0
You're Not So Tough
1940
6.3
We Who Are Young
1940
6.9
New Moon
1940
6.1
Phantom Raiders
1940
5.6
Girl in 313
1940
5.3
An Angel from Texas
1940
6.8
Johnny Apollo
1940
7.8
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
5.3
Double Alibi
1940
7.0
Castle on the Hudson
1940
5.8
The Fighting 69th
1940
6.0
The Saint's Double Trouble
1940
7.4
His Girl Friday
1940
5.3
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
6.0
The Green Hornet
1940
6.2
Invisible Stripes
1939
7.1
Another Thin Man
1939
6.9
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939
5.8
Smashing the Money Ring
1939
5.7
Desperate Trails
1939
7.3
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
5.6
Indianapolis Speedway
1939
8.0
I Stole a Million
1939
6.6
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
1939
6.0
Blind Alley
1939
6.7
Rose of Washington Square
1939
6.3
The Return of the Cisco Kid
1939
6.7
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
1939
7.5
Sergeant Madden
1939
7.3
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
1939
6.3
Tail Spin
1939
10.0
Scouts to the Rescue
1939
7.2
Next Time I Marry
1938
6.0
Storm Over Bengal
1938
7.0
Straight, Place and Show
1938
6.8
Garden of the Moon
1938
7.5
Tenth Avenue Kid
1938
7.4
Gateway
1938
7.0
Numbered Woman
1938
5.7
Over the Wall
1938
6.4
A Slight Case of Murder
1938
5.1
The Patient in Room 18
1938
7.0
Borrowing Trouble
1937
7.0
Big Town Girl
1937
5.1
Alcatraz Island
1937
4.8
The Wrong Road
1937
6.5
Hot Water
1937
6.3
The Game That Kills
1937
5.8
Dangerously Yours
1937
6.6
One Mile from Heaven
1937
6.8
White Bondage
1937
7.1
Kid Galahad
1937
6.2
The Go-Getter
1937
7.0
Melody for Two
1937
6.6
Marked Woman
1937
6.5
Penrod and Sam
1937
6.9
The Great O'Malley
1937
6.3
Fugitive in the Sky
1936
6.7
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
5.8
China Clipper
1936
6.6
Bullets or Ballots
1936
6.0
Stranded
1935
6.9
Lady Killer
1933
6.1
The Crowd Roars
1932