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Ralph Dunn

Ralph Dunn

Actor · 1900 – 1968 · Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

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  • Movie7.8

    The Grapes of Wrath

    1940 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie7.4

    His Girl Friday

    1940 · 973 votes

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    Laura

    1944 · 943 votes

  • Movie7.6

    Scarlet Street

    1945 · 458 votes

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    Saboteur

    1942 · 562 votes

  • Movie7.5

    The Asphalt Jungle

    1950 · 548 votes

  • Movie7.4

    The Woman in the Window

    1944 · 397 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Enforcer

    1951 · 117 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Murder, My Sweet

    1944 · 268 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Anchors Aweigh

    1945 · 169 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Lady in the Lake

    1946 · 116 votes

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    Hangmen Also Die!

    1943 · 143 votes

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    Kid Galahad

    1937 · 61 votes

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  • Movie6.9

    I Married a Witch

    1942 · 231 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Western Union

    1941 · 88 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Dick Tracy

    1945 · 31 votes

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    The Strange Woman

    1946 · 44 votes

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    A Slight Case of Murder

    1938 · 47 votes

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    Nora Prentiss

    1947 · 23 votes

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    The Dark Corner

    1946 · 72 votes

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  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

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    Lux Video Theatre

    1950 · 7 votes

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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    1951 · 8 votes

  • TV7.0

    Norby

    1955 · 1 votes