
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.

Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950

Studio One
TV • 1948

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951

Laura
MOVIE • 1944

The Woman in the Window
MOVIE • 1944

His Girl Friday
MOVIE • 1940

Brigham Young
MOVIE • 1940

The Grapes of Wrath
MOVIE • 1940

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
MOVIE • 1939

Saboteur
MOVIE • 1942

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
MOVIE • 1948

Mr. Soft Touch
MOVIE • 1949

The Asphalt Jungle
MOVIE • 1950

Possessed
MOVIE • 1947

Bullets or Ballots
MOVIE • 1936

Phantom Lady
MOVIE • 1944

I Married a Witch
MOVIE • 1942

Along Came Jones
MOVIE • 1945