Eddie Dunn
Born: 1896-03-29 in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
Died: 1951-05-05
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Frank Dunn (March 31, 1896 – May 5, 1951) was an American actor best known for his roles in comedy films, supporting many comedians such as Charley Chase (with whom he co-directed several short films), Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, and Laurel and Hardy. Dunn also appeared as Detective Grimes in several of The Falcon series of films in the 1940s which starred George Sanders and later on Sanders' brother Tom Conway, and in many small and uncredited parts in many feature films until his death in 1951 aged 55.
Filmography
1985
- The Velveteen Rabbit as Doctor (voice) (uncredited)
1951
- Buckaroo Sheriff of Texas as Stage Driver
1950
- Whirlpool as Watchman (uncredited)
- Gun Crazy as State Policeman on Phone (uncredited)
- Summer Stock as Sheriff (uncredited)
- The Secret Fury as Eddie (uncredited)
- Lonely Heart Bandits as Sheriff York
1949
- I Shot Jesse James as Joe, Silver King Bartender
- The Doolins of Oklahoma as Train Engineer (uncredited)
1948
- Call Northside 777 as Patrolman John W. Bundy (uncredited)
- Hollow Triumph as Marty (uncredited)
- Shed No Tears as Loan Company Representative (Uncredited)
- Here Comes Trouble as Pit Violinist (uncredited)
- Homicide for Three as Circus Doorman
- The Man from Texas as Deputy (uncredited)
- Incident as Police Lt. Madigan
1947
- High Wall
- Buck Privates Come Home as Mulroney - Garage Man (uncredited)
- The Flame as Police Officer
- I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now as Stagehand (uncredited)
- Deep Valley as Posseman
- Philo Vance Returns as Police Lieutenant Mullard (Uncredited)
- The Romance of Rosy Ridge as Northerner (uncredited)
- Key Witness as Detective Lt. Dillon (uncredited)
1946
- Angel on My Shoulder as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- Face to Face as Host
- Bowery Bombshell as Police Officer O'Hara
1945
- Bewitched as Prison Janitor (uncredited)
- Lady on a Train
- Circumstantial Evidence as Guard
- Two O'Clock Courage as Policeman at Clothing Store (uncredited)
- Here Come the Co-Eds as Officer Flannigan (uncredited)
- Patrick the Great as Plumber
- Dangerous Partners as Lunch Counter Operator (uncredited)
1944
- Christmas Holiday as Jim (uncredited)
- Greenwich Village as Set designer
- Lost in a Harem as Sentry (uncredited)
- Dead Man's Eyes as Police Guard Moriarty
- Moon Over Las Vegas as Conductor
- A Fig Leaf for Eve as Gus Hoffman
1943
- Hit the Ice as Officer Murphy (uncredited)
- Margin for Error as Desk Sergeant
- The Falcon in Danger as Det. Grimes
- Dixie Dugan as Policeman
- Hello, Frisco, Hello as Forman of Renovation Crew
- So's Your Uncle as Propietor
- The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
- A Stranger in Town as Henry
- Fired Wife as Stagehand
1942
- Invisible Agent as S.S. Prison Guard (uncredited)
- The Big Street as Police Officer Mulvaney (uncredited)
- My Sister Eileen as Policeman (uncredited)
- A Date with the Falcon as Det. Grimes (uncredited)
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point as O'Toole
- Fly By Night as Police Sergeant (Uncredited)
- The Secret Code as Weather Bureau Man
- A Night to Remember as Matthews (uncredited)
- Lady in a Jam as Bartender (uncredited)
- The Falcon's Brother as Detective Grimes
- Jackass Mail as Man
- Mexican Spitfire at Sea as George Skinner
- Mississippi Gambler as Police Detective Sergeant Dexter
1941
- Billy the Kid as Pat Shanahan
- Ride 'Em Cowboy as Railroad Detective #1 (uncredited)
- Three Girls About Town as Policeman Eddie
- The Gay Falcon as Detective Grimes
- Appointment for Love as Reporter (uncredited)
- I Wake Up Screaming as Detective (uncredited)
- In the Navy as Dance Hall Ticket Taker (uncredited)
- Sea Raiders as Whaler Captain
- At the Stroke of Twelve as Policeman
- The Saint In Palm Springs as Det. Barker
- Parachute Battalion as Recruiting Sergeant
1940
- The Great Dictator as Whitewashed Storm Trooper
- Black Friday as Det. Farnow
- Boom Town as Wildcatter (uncredited)
- The Howards of Virginia as Dunkel
- Mexican Spitfire Out West as Mr. Skinner
- The Bank Dick as James the Chauffeur (uncredited)
- The Villain Still Pursued Her as Stevens - the Coach Driver (uncredited)
- The Man Who Wouldn't Talk as Jim
- Double Alibi as Policeman
- Pop Always Pays as Detective Winton
- He Married His Wife as The Jailer
- The Green Hornet as D.H. Sligby
- A Volta do Besouro Verde as Foley - Racketeer
- The Great Profile as Furniture Man
- The Golden Fleecing as McGurk (uncredited)
- Men Against the Sky as Plainclothesman
- Love Thy Neighbor as Driver
1939
- Of Mice and Men as Bus Driver (uncredited)
- Tail Spin as Eddie, Mechanic (Uncredited)
- The Phantom Creeps as Policeman
- Let Freedom Ring as Curly
- Chicken Wagon Family as Stu
- The Big Guy as Dawes (uncredited)
- You Can't Cheat an Honest Man as Cop (uncredited)
- Cafe Society as Newsreel Reporter
- Second Fiddle as Road Construction Workman
- Three Smart Girls Grow Up as Decorator
- The Amazing Mr. Williams as Race Track Spectator (uncredited)
- Too Busy to Work as Truck Driver
- I Stole a Million as Trucking Superintendent
- The Cisco Kid and the Lady as Jailer
- The Day the Bookies Wept as Racetrack Detective (uncredited)
- Charlie McCarthy, Detective as Officer Walsh
- Henry Goes Arizona as Slim Pickins (uncredited)
- Dog-Gone as Dr. Kittle
- The Wrong Room as The Attorney
1938
- Give Me a Sailor as Newsreel Director (uncredited)
- The Arkansas Traveler as Hobo
- Too Hot to Handle as Newsreel Man (uncredited)
- Kentucky as Moving Man
- Change of Heart as Dog Owner
- There Goes My Heart as Norman - Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
- While New York Sleeps as 1st Cop
- Men with Wings as Field Employee
- The Chaser as Eddie
- Love on a Budget as Expressman
- His Pest Friend
- A Clean Sweep as Salesman Crew Boss
- Beaux and Errors as Jimmy Dugan, Old Beaux
1937
- Slave Ship as Ostler
- Angel's Holiday as Detective
- Wells Fargo as Ed Slocum - Stagecoach Driver
- Man Of The People as Kitty "The Horse" Schwartz (uncredited)
- One Mile from Heaven as Detective
- Many Unhappy Returns as Jones - Mr. Morgan's Secretary
- Tramp Trouble as Railroad Detective
- Dumb's the Word as Neighbor
1936
- Hollywood Boulevard as Grip (uncredited)
- The Accusing Finger as Sergeant at Arms
- A Face in the Fog as Policeman Kelly (uncredited)
- Murder with Pictures as Bailiff (uncredited)
- To Mary - with Love as Politician
- And Sudden Death as Gas Station Attendant
- The Princess Comes Across as Reporter (uncredited)
- Rhythm on the Range as Cowboy
- The Preview Murder Mystery as Tub Wilson (Uncredited)
- Border Flight as Mechanic
- Let's Make a Million as Taggert
1935
- 'G' Men as Police Broadcaster (uncredited)
- Cardinal Richelieu as Tradesman
- The Gilded Lily as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Rainmakers as Dispatcher
- Here Comes Cookie as Gracie’s Taxi Driver (uncredited)
- Stolen Harmony as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- Powdersmoke Range as Elliott
- Car 99 as Mack
- Alibi Racket as Detective
1934
- Another Wild Idea ... (Director)
- Four Parts ... (Director)
- I'll Take Vanilla ... (Director)
- Next Week-End
- It Happened One Day ... (Director)
- The Cracked Ice Man ... (Director)
1933
- Private Detective 62 as Club Doorman (Uncredited)
- The Midnight Patrol as Sergeant
- Fallen Arches as The Thief
- Asleep in the Feet as Sailor
1932
- What Price Hollywood? as Doorman at Grauman's Theater (uncredited)
- Million Dollar Legs as Coachman / Guard (uncredited)
- South of Santa Fe as Lankey
- Always Kickin'
- Off His Base as Gallagher - Reporter
- In Walked Charley
1931
- Finn and Hattie as N. Y. Taxi Driver
- Love Fever as Theatrical Agent
- The Sunrise Trail as Rand Kennedy
- The Pajama Party as Eddie
- Hasty Marriage as Eddie Jenkins
- Riders of the North as Tim 'Mac' McGuire
1930
- Another Fine Mess as Meadows the Butler (uncredited)
- True to the Navy as Albert
- The Land of Missing Men as Sheriff Bower
- Whispering Whoopee as Ricketts, the Butler
- Headin' North as Palace Master of Ceremonies
- Looser Than Loose as Night Club Waiter
- The Real McCoy as Mountain Man (uncredited)
- The Fighting Parson as The Piano Player
- The Head Guy as Mr. Dunn, the Producer
1929
- The Saturday Night Kid as Jim (uncredited)
- Why Is a Plumber?
- Bouncing Babies as Eddie - Father (uncredited)
- Crazy Feet as Thelma's Dancing Partner
- Hotter Than Hot
- Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon as Himself
- The Unkissed Man
- Sky Boy as Pilot
- Thundering Toupees
- Dad's Day as Jimmie
- Madame Q as Defense Lawyer
1928
- The Road to Ruin as Strip Poker Player (as Ed Dunn)
- The Fleet's In as Al Pearce
- Say Ah-h!
1926
- The Sorrows of Satan as Marriage Clerk (uncredited)
1920
- The Blood Barrier as Eddie Brown
1919
- Dawn as John McGuire
- His Home Sweet Home as A Crook
- The Moonshine Trail as Eddie Cassidy
1918
- My Own United States as Gen. Wilkinson
1917
- Tough Luck and Tin Lizzies
- Plagues And Puppy Love
- Turks and Troubles as Haffed - The Terrible Turk
- Flatheads and Flivvers
- Bullies and Bullets as Soldier
- Rips and Rushes
- Footlights and Fakers as Ed - Grips
1916
- Losing Weight
- There and Back as John Dubo
- Walls and Wallops as The Villain
- Hash and Havoc
- A Villainous Villain as Gentleman Joe