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