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

For Crimin' Out Loud as Baddie (archive footage)
Crowded Paradise

1955

Norby as Mr. Rudge

1954

Summer Playhouse

1953

Taxi as Rafferty (uncredited)
Sentence of Death as Sergeant MacReynolds

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Lieutenant Rooney
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
The Enforcer

1950

Robert Montgomery Presents
Lux Video Theatre as Mitch
The Asphalt Jungle as Policeman (uncredited)
No Way Out as Sam (uncredited)
Singing Guns as Traveler
The Secret Fury as Police Sergeant McCafferty (uncredited)
The Great Plane Robbery as Police Inspector Bruce

1949

Miss Mink of 1949 as Mr. McKelvey
Mr. Soft Touch as Tollgate Policeman (Uncredited)
On the Right Side as Hood
The Walking Hills
Homicide as Department of Employment Clerk
The Lost Tribe as Capt. Rawlins
Who Done It? as Leader of Phantom Gang

1948

Studio One as Sergeant MacReynolds
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as Flophouse Bum (uncredited)
King of the Gamblers as Cassidy
The Golden Eye as Jim. Driscoll
My Girl Tisa
Incident as Bugs
Lady at Midnight as Al Garrity
Jinx Money as Jake 'Cold Deck' Shapiro
Train to Alcatraz as Mark Stevens
Mummy's Dummies as Rhadames

1947

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now as Stagehand (uncredited)
Buck Privates Come Home as Ed - Guard on Midget Car (uncredited)
Nora Prentiss as New York Detective (uncredited)
Undercover Maisie as Cop (uncredited)
Three on a Ticket as Inspector Pete Rafferty
Possessed as Cable Car Motorman (uncredited)
Deep Valley as Deputy
Heartaches as Police Detective (uncredited)
Too Many Winners as Detective Peter Rafferty
Dragnet as Police Sgt. Martin
News Hounds as 'Dutch' Miller

1946

Lady in the Lake as Sergeant (Uncredited)
The Strange Woman as Lumberjack (uncredited)
The Dark Corner as Policeman at Gallery (uncredited)
From This Day Forward as Bailiff
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball as Policeman (uncredited)
The Truth About Murder as Police Detective Faber (uncredited)
Sister Kenny as Brisbane Policeman (uncredited)
The Walls Came Tumbling Down as Policeman
Deadline at Dawn as Capt. Dill (uncredited)
Little Giant as Passenger in Lower Berth #6 (uncredited)
Larceny in Her Heart as Det. Sgt. Pete Rafferty
Lady Chaser as Brady
Nobody Lives Forever as Ben, Watchman / Henchman (uncredited)
Murder Is My Business as Pete Rafferty
Step by Step as Patrol Car Cop
Big Town as Mac- Policeman (uncredited)
Gas House Kids as Detective O'Hara
Genius at Work as Lt. Gilley

1945

Scarlet Street as First Policeman in Park (uncredited)
Anchors Aweigh as Hollywood Bowl Cop (uncredited)
Escape in the Fog as Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Dick Tracy as Detective Manning (uncredited)
Along Came Jones as Cotton (uncredited)
Hold That Blonde! as Radio Cop (uncredited)
The Falcon in San Francisco as Arresting Policeman (uncredited)
Salty O'Rourke as Guard at Jewelry Store (uncredited)
Love, Honor and Goodbye as Detective
Senorita from the West as Man (uncredited)
Phantoms, Inc. as Detective Lester
Circumstantial Evidence as Cleary, the Cop

1944

Laura as Fred Callahan (uncredited)
The Woman in the Window as Traffic Cop (uncredited)
Murder, My Sweet as Detective (uncredited)
Phantom Lady as Worker (uncredited)
In Society as Policeman at Pottery Shop (uncredited)
Follow the Boys as Loomis (uncredited)
Hollywood Canteen as Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
The Whistler as Cop at Car Accident (Uncredited)
Up in Mabel's Room as Air Raid Warden (uncredited)
This Is the Life as Cop (uncredited)
Dark Mountain as Chief Sanford
Strange Affair as Mike McCafferty (uncredited)
Trial by Trigger as MacIntosh 'Mac'

1943

Action in the North Atlantic as Quartermaster (uncredited)
Hangmen Also Die! as Czech Policeman (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

Saboteur as FBU Agent at Mason's House (uncredited)
I Married a Witch as First Prison Guard (uncredited)
A Night to Remember as Henderson (uncredited)
Blondie Goes to College as Joes, 2nd Motorcycle Policeman
The Corsican Brothers as Messenger, Arturo's Steward (Uncredited)
Moontide as Policeman
Get Hep to Love as Policeman Making Bet
About Face as Marine (uncredited)
Lucky Jordan as Army Guard
Strictly in the Groove as Big Boy
Fingers at the Window as Policeman Outside Clinic (uncredited)
Twin Beds as Detective
Keep 'Em Sailing as Vic, Stregel's Thug (uncredited)
Grand Central Murder as Policeman (uncredited)
Mug Town as Cop

1941

Western Union as Work Seeker
I Wake Up Screaming as Detective (uncredited)
Two Latins from Manhattan as Federal Agent
Sun Valley Serenade as Customs Officer
Manpower as Man Calling Sweeney (uncredited)
The Lady from Cheyenne as Mayor Barney Davies, Cork's Henchman
In the Navy as Cop Who Gives Pomeroy a Ticket (uncredited)
International Lady as Don
Dead Men Tell as Homicide Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
Sleepers West
Pacific Blackout as Cop

1940

The Grapes of Wrath as Deputy (uncredited)
His Girl Friday as Plainclothesman (uncredited)
We Who Are Young as 2nd Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
Michael Shayne: Private Detective as First Bartender
Castle on the Hudson as Court Clerk Reading Verdict (uncredited)
The Saint's Double Trouble as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
So You Won't Talk? as Police Lieutenant
An Angel from Texas as 'General' in the Play
Johnny Apollo as Guard (uncredited)
Dr. Kildare Goes Home as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Public Deb No. 1 as Policeman
Brigham Young as Jury Foreman
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk as Guard
Trail of the Vigilantes as Deputy Sheriff
Murder Over New York as Police Officer
The Fighting 69th as Medical Captain (uncredited)
You're Not So Tough as Valley Truck Driver
New Moon as Bondsman
The Green Hornet as Andy - Thug (uncredited)
Phantom Raiders as Port Policeman
Gallant Sons as Deputy with Charlie (uncredited)
Girl in 313 as Det. Berner
Double Alibi as First Police Dispatcher

1939

The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Soldier (uncredited)
Rose of Washington Square as Officer (uncredited)
Another Thin Man as Baggage Man (uncredited)
Smashing the Money Ring as Dave - Convict Custodian on Train (uncredited)
Invisible Stripes as Doorman (uncredited)
I Stole a Million as Bartender (uncredited)
Mr. Moto in Danger Island as Cop with McGurk
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation as Police Guard (uncredited)
Blondie Brings Up Baby as Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
The Lone Ranger Rides Again as Bart Dolan
The Return of the Cisco Kid as (uncredited)
Scouts to the Rescue as Henchman Pug O'Toole
Tail Spin as Mechanic (Uncredited)
Indianapolis Speedway as Racetrack Official
Blind Alley as Trooper Cronin
Sergeant Madden as Policeman in 1919
Desperate Trails as Henchman Lon

1938

A Slight Case of Murder as Third Policeman (uncredited)
Next Time I Marry as Kennel Guard (uncredited)
Straight, Place and Show as Bartender
Garden of the Moon as Fred - Hotel Detective (uncredited)
The Patient in Room 18 as Eldar Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Gateway as Guard
Over the Wall as Prison Guard
Storm Over Bengal as Soldier
Tenth Avenue Kid as Detective Egan
Numbered Woman as Henchman Red

1937

Kid Galahad as Reporter at Banquet (uncredited)
Marked Woman as Court Clerk #1 (uncredited)
One Mile from Heaven as Doorman
The Great O'Malley as Police Stenographer in Hospital (uncredited)
The Go-Getter as Officer on the Macon (uncredited)
The Game That Kills as Detective
Alcatraz Island as Metal Detector Guard (uncredited)
Borrowing Trouble as Cop
Big Town Girl as Trooper
Penrod and Sam as Joe (uncredited)
The Wrong Road as Convict (uncredited)
Hot Water as Policeman (uncredited)
Dangerously Yours as Detective
Melody for Two as Radio Station Official
White Bondage as Defense Attorney

1936

Bullets or Ballots as Policeman Getting Papers from Fire (uncredited)
Fugitive in the Sky as First Radio Announcer
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie as G-Man
China Clipper as Plane Announcer at Miami Airport (uncredited)

1935

Stranded as Bridge Worker (uncredited)

1933

Lady Killer as Monkey Delivery Man (uncredited)

1932

The Crowd Roars as Racetrack Official