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