Ralph Dunn
Born: 1900-05-22 in Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1968-02-19
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1962
- Arsenic & Old Lace as Lieutenant Rooney
1960
- The Devil to Pay as The Furnace Man
1957
- The Pajama Game as Myron Hasler
1956
- Crowded Paradise
- For Crimin' Out Loud as Baddie (archive footage)
1955
- Norby as Mr. Rudge
1954
1953
- Sentence of Death as Sergeant MacReynolds
- Taxi as Rafferty (uncredited)
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Lieutenant Rooney
- The Enforcer
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents
- Lux Video Theatre as Mitch
- The Asphalt Jungle as Policeman (uncredited)
- The Secret Fury as Police Sergeant McCafferty (uncredited)
- No Way Out as Sam (uncredited)
- Singing Guns as Traveler
- The Great Plane Robbery as Police Inspector Bruce
1949
- The Walking Hills
- Mr. Soft Touch as Tollgate Policeman (Uncredited)
- Homicide as Department of Employment Clerk
- The Lost Tribe as Capt. Rawlins
- Miss Mink of 1949 as Mr. McKelvey
- Who Done It? as Leader of Phantom Gang
1948
- Studio One as Sergeant MacReynolds
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as Flophouse Bum (uncredited)
- My Girl Tisa
- Lady at Midnight as Al Garrity
- Train to Alcatraz as Mark Stevens
- Incident as Bugs
- The Golden Eye as Jim. Driscoll
- Jinx Money as Jake 'Cold Deck' Shapiro
- Mummy's Dummies as Rhadames
- King of the Gamblers as Cassidy
1947
- Buck Privates Come Home as Ed - Guard on Midget Car (uncredited)
- Undercover Maisie as Cop (uncredited)
- Possessed as Cable Car Motorman (uncredited)
- Nora Prentiss as New York Detective (uncredited)
- I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now as Stagehand (uncredited)
- Three on a Ticket as Inspector Pete Rafferty
- Deep Valley as Deputy
- Too Many Winners as Detective Peter Rafferty
- Dragnet as Police Sgt. Martin
- Heartaches as Police Detective (uncredited)
- News Hounds as 'Dutch' Miller
1946
- The Strange Woman as Lumberjack (uncredited)
- Lady Chaser as Brady
- Sister Kenny as Brisbane Policeman (uncredited)
- Lady in the Lake as Sergeant (Uncredited)
- The Dark Corner as Policeman at Gallery (uncredited)
- Nobody Lives Forever as Ben, Watchman / Henchman (uncredited)
- Dick Tracy vs. Cueball as Policeman (uncredited)
- Deadline at Dawn as Capt. Dill (uncredited)
- Larceny in Her Heart as Det. Sgt. Pete Rafferty
- The Truth About Murder as Police Detective Faber (uncredited)
- Little Giant as Passenger in Lower Berth #6 (uncredited)
- The Walls Came Tumbling Down as Policeman
- From This Day Forward as Bailiff
- Step by Step as Patrol Car Cop
- Murder Is My Business as Pete Rafferty
- Genius at Work as Lt. Gilley
- Big Town as Mac- Policeman (uncredited)
- Gas House Kids as Detective O'Hara
1945
- Anchors Aweigh as Hollywood Bowl Cop (uncredited)
- Scarlet Street as First Policeman in Park (uncredited)
- Along Came Jones as Cotton (uncredited)
- Dick Tracy as Detective Manning (uncredited)
- Hold That Blonde! as Radio Cop (uncredited)
- Escape in the Fog as Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Circumstantial Evidence as Cleary, the Cop
- Phantoms, Inc. as Detective Lester
- Salty O'Rourke as Guard at Jewelry Store (uncredited)
- The Falcon in San Francisco as Arresting Policeman (uncredited)
- Love, Honor and Goodbye as Detective
- Senorita from the West as Man (uncredited)
1944
- Laura as Fred Callahan (uncredited)
- Murder, My Sweet as Detective (uncredited)
- The Woman in the Window as Traffic Cop (uncredited)
- Hollywood Canteen as Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
- Follow the Boys as Loomis (uncredited)
- Phantom Lady as Worker (uncredited)
- In Society as Policeman at Pottery Shop (uncredited)
- The Whistler as Cop at Car Accident (Uncredited)
- This Is the Life as Cop (uncredited)
- Dark Mountain as Chief Sanford
- Trial by Trigger as MacIntosh 'Mac'
- Strange Affair as Mike McCafferty (uncredited)
- Up in Mabel's Room as Air Raid Warden (uncredited)
1943
- Hangmen Also Die! as Czech Policeman (uncredited)
- Action in the North Atlantic as Quartermaster (uncredited)
- Thank Your Lucky Stars as Marty (uncredited)
- Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case as Tracy - Prison Guard (uncredited)
- All by Myself as Hotel Detective
1942
- I Married a Witch as First Prison Guard (uncredited)
- Saboteur as FBU Agent at Mason's House (uncredited)
- Moontide as Policeman
- About Face as Marine (uncredited)
- Twin Beds as Detective
- Lucky Jordan as Army Guard
- A Night to Remember as Henderson (uncredited)
- Blondie Goes to College as Joes, 2nd Motorcycle Policeman
- Fingers at the Window as Policeman Outside Clinic (uncredited)
- Get Hep to Love as Policeman Making Bet
- Grand Central Murder as Policeman (uncredited)
- Keep 'Em Sailing as Vic, Stregel's Thug (uncredited)
- Mug Town as Cop
- Strictly in the Groove as Big Boy
1941
- Western Union as Work Seeker
- Manpower as Man Calling Sweeney (uncredited)
- I Wake Up Screaming as Detective (uncredited)
- The Corsican Brothers as Messenger, Arturo's Steward (Uncredited)
- Sun Valley Serenade as Customs Officer
- In the Navy as Cop Who Gives Pomeroy a Ticket (uncredited)
- Pacific Blackout as Cop
- International Lady as Don
- Sleepers West
- Dead Men Tell as Homicide Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
- The Lady from Cheyenne as Mayor Barney Davies, Cork's Henchman
- Two Latins from Manhattan as Federal Agent
1940
- The Grapes of Wrath as Deputy (uncredited)
- His Girl Friday as Plainclothesman (uncredited)
- So You Won't Talk? as Police Lieutenant
- Brigham Young as Jury Foreman
- The Fighting 69th as Medical Captain (uncredited)
- Johnny Apollo as Guard (uncredited)
- The Green Hornet as Andy - Thug (uncredited)
- Phantom Raiders as Port Policeman
- Michael Shayne: Private Detective as First Bartender
- Trail of the Vigilantes as Deputy Sheriff
- New Moon as Bondsman
- Murder Over New York as Police Officer
- Dr. Kildare Goes Home as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- Castle on the Hudson as Court Clerk Reading Verdict (uncredited)
- We Who Are Young as 2nd Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- Public Deb No. 1 as Policeman
- The Saint's Double Trouble as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Double Alibi as First Police Dispatcher
- The Man Who Wouldn't Talk as Guard
- Gallant Sons as Deputy with Charlie (uncredited)
- You're Not So Tough as Valley Truck Driver
- An Angel from Texas as 'General' in the Play
- Girl in 313 as Det. Berner
1939
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Soldier (uncredited)
- Invisible Stripes as Doorman (uncredited)
- Another Thin Man as Baggage Man (uncredited)
- Sergeant Madden as Policeman in 1919
- I Stole a Million as Bartender (uncredited)
- Rose of Washington Square as Officer (uncredited)
- Blind Alley as Trooper Cronin
- Blondie Brings Up Baby as Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- The Lone Ranger Rides Again as Bart Dolan
- Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation as Police Guard (uncredited)
- Tail Spin as Mechanic (Uncredited)
- Smashing the Money Ring as Dave - Convict Custodian on Train (uncredited)
- Indianapolis Speedway as Racetrack Official
- Desperate Trails as Henchman Lon
- Mr. Moto in Danger Island as Cop with McGurk
- Scouts to the Rescue as Henchman Pug O'Toole
- The Return of the Cisco Kid as (uncredited)
1938
- A Slight Case of Murder as Third Policeman (uncredited)
- Over the Wall as Prison Guard
- Numbered Woman as Henchman Red
- Gateway as Guard
- Storm Over Bengal as Soldier
- Next Time I Marry as Kennel Guard (uncredited)
- Garden of the Moon as Fred - Hotel Detective (uncredited)
- Tenth Avenue Kid as Detective Egan
- Straight, Place and Show as Bartender
- The Patient in Room 18 as Eldar Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1937
- Kid Galahad as Reporter at Banquet (uncredited)
- Marked Woman as Court Clerk #1 (uncredited)
- The Great O'Malley as Police Stenographer in Hospital (uncredited)
- The Go-Getter as Officer on the Macon (uncredited)
- Big Town Girl as Trooper
- Alcatraz Island as Metal Detector Guard (uncredited)
- Dangerously Yours as Detective
- White Bondage as Defense Attorney
- Penrod and Sam as Joe (uncredited)
- Hot Water as Policeman (uncredited)
- Melody for Two as Radio Station Official
- The Wrong Road as Convict (uncredited)
- Borrowing Trouble as Cop
- The Game That Kills as Detective
- One Mile from Heaven as Doorman
1936
- Bullets or Ballots as Policeman Getting Papers from Fire (uncredited)
- China Clipper as Plane Announcer at Miami Airport (uncredited)
- Valiant Is the Word for Carrie as G-Man
- Fugitive in the Sky as First Radio Announcer
1935
- Stranded as Bridge Worker (uncredited)
1933
- Lady Killer as Monkey Delivery Man (uncredited)
1932
- The Crowd Roars as Racetrack Official