Ralph Dunn

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Ralph Dunn
Born May 23, 1900
Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA
Died February 19, 1968 (aged 67)
Flushing, Queens, New York, USA
Years active 1940s — 1940s[1]

Ralph Dunn (May 23, 1900 – February 19, 1968) was an American film, television, and stage actor.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Dunn was born in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Dunn's father was a blacksmith, and his mother was a teacher.[2] His father, Timothy Ronald Dunn, comes from a Scots-Irish American family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

[edit] Acting Career

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 huge man with a withering glare, Dunn was an ideal "opposite" for short, bumbling comedians like Lou Costello in the 1944 Abbott and Costello comedy In Society, Dunn plays the weeping pedestrian who explains that he doesn't want to go to Beagle Street because that's where a two-ton safe fell on his head and killed him. A frequent visitor to the Columbia short subjects unit, Dunn shows up in the Three Stooges comedy Mummie's Dummies as the ancient Egyptian swindled at the Stooges' used chariot lot. Ralph Dunn kept busy into the '60s, appearing in such TV series as Kitty Foyle and such films as Black Like Me.

[edit] Personal life

Dunn liked the drama and crime genres. He was active from the 1930s to the 1940s. Dunn's first major screen credit in the film Larceny in Her Heart. His career highlights were Too Many Winners, Lady at Midnight, and Three on a Ticket.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Answers.com | Ralph Dunn
  2. ^ Ralph Dunn Biography (1900-1968)

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