Ralph Dunn
Acting • Born 1900-05-22 – Died 1968-02-19
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
190 credits
Manpower
Movie • 1941
Man Calling Sweeney (uncredited)
Salty O'Rourke
Movie • 1945
Guard at Jewelry Store (uncredited)
My Girl Tisa
Movie • 1948
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Movie • 1946
Policeman (uncredited)
Lady Killer
Movie • 1933
Monkey Delivery Man (uncredited)
The Pajama Game
Movie • 1957
Myron Hasler
Circumstantial Evidence
Movie • 1945
Cleary, the Cop
Two Latins from Manhattan
Movie • 1941
Federal Agent
Along Came Jones
Movie • 1945
Cotton (uncredited)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Movie • 1951
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Phantom Lady
Movie • 1944
Worker (uncredited)
The Golden Eye
Movie • 1948
Jim. Driscoll
Gas House Kids
Movie • 1946
Detective O'Hara
Dark Mountain
Movie • 1944
Chief Sanford
Murder Is My Business
Movie • 1946
Pete Rafferty
Alcatraz Island
Movie • 1937
Metal Detector Guard (uncredited)
The Crowd Roars
Movie • 1932
Racetrack Official
Tenth Avenue Kid
Movie • 1938
Detective Egan
Train to Alcatraz
Movie • 1948
Mark Stevens
Lady at Midnight
Movie • 1948
Al Garrity
Kid Galahad
Movie • 1937
Reporter at Banquet (uncredited)
Mummy's Dummies
Movie • 1948
Rhadames
Who Done It?
Movie • 1949
Leader of Phantom Gang
For Crimin' Out Loud
Movie • 1956
Baddie (archive footage)
Singing Guns
Movie • 1950
Traveler
The Walking Hills
Movie • 1949
The Devil to Pay
Movie • 1960
The Furnace Man
Hangmen Also Die!
Movie • 1943
Czech Policeman (uncredited)
Love, Honor and Goodbye
Movie • 1945
Detective
The Game That Kills
Movie • 1937
Detective
Numbered Woman
Movie • 1938
Henchman Red
Genius at Work
Movie • 1946
Lt. Gilley
The Patient in Room 18
Movie • 1938
Eldar Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Too Many Winners
Movie • 1947
Detective Peter Rafferty
Taxi
Movie • 1953
Rafferty (uncredited)
Murder, My Sweet
Movie • 1944
Detective (uncredited)
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Movie • 1939
Bart Dolan
The Asphalt Jungle
Movie • 1950
Policeman (uncredited)
Next Time I Marry
Movie • 1938
Kennel Guard (uncredited)
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Movie • 1936
G-Man
The Enforcer
Movie • 1951
Fugitive in the Sky
Movie • 1936
First Radio Announcer
Garden of the Moon
Movie • 1938
Fred - Hotel Detective (uncredited)
Melody for Two
Movie • 1937
Radio Station Official
Smashing the Money Ring
Movie • 1939
Dave - Convict Custodian on Train (uncredited)
Tail Spin
Movie • 1939
Mechanic (Uncredited)
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Movie • 1939
Cop with McGurk
Blind Alley
Movie • 1939
Trooper Cronin
The Return of the Cisco Kid
Movie • 1939
(uncredited)
Rose of Washington Square
Movie • 1939
Officer (uncredited)
Another Thin Man
Movie • 1939
Baggage Man (uncredited)
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Movie • 1939
Police Guard (uncredited)
Indianapolis Speedway
Movie • 1939
Racetrack Official
Big Town
Movie • 1946
Mac- Policeman (uncredited)
Sergeant Madden
Movie • 1939
Policeman in 1919
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie • 1939
Soldier (uncredited)
Incident
Movie • 1948
Bugs
Blondie Brings Up Baby
Movie • 1939
Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Movie • 1940
Guard
You're Not So Tough
Movie • 1940
Valley Truck Driver
The Grapes of Wrath
Movie • 1940
Deputy (uncredited)
Sister Kenny
Movie • 1946
Brisbane Policeman (uncredited)
The Great O'Malley
Movie • 1937
Police Stenographer in Hospital (uncredited)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Movie • 1948
Flophouse Bum (uncredited)
Deadline at Dawn
Movie • 1946
Capt. Dill (uncredited)
Keep 'Em Sailing
Movie • 1942
Vic, Stregel's Thug (uncredited)
Scarlet Street
Movie • 1945
First Policeman in Park (uncredited)
Dangerously Yours
Movie • 1937
Detective
Murder Over New York
Movie • 1940
Police Officer
The Fighting 69th
Movie • 1940
Medical Captain (uncredited)
The Saint's Double Trouble
Movie • 1940
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
His Girl Friday
Movie • 1940
Plainclothesman (uncredited)
The Green Hornet
Movie • 1940
Andy - Thug (uncredited)
The Truth About Murder
Movie • 1946
Police Detective Faber (uncredited)
Three on a Ticket
Movie • 1947
Inspector Pete Rafferty
Laura
Movie • 1944
Fred Callahan (uncredited)
Larceny in Her Heart
Movie • 1946
Det. Sgt. Pete Rafferty
Saboteur
Movie • 1942
FBU Agent at Mason's House (uncredited)
The Woman in the Window
Movie • 1944
Traffic Cop (uncredited)
The Whistler
Movie • 1944
Cop at Car Accident (Uncredited)
All by Myself
Movie • 1943
Hotel Detective
Trail of the Vigilantes
Movie • 1940
Deputy Sheriff
Brigham Young
Movie • 1940
Jury Foreman
The Lady from Cheyenne
Movie • 1941
Mayor Barney Davies, Cork's Henchman
Desperate Trails
Movie • 1939
Henchman Lon
White Bondage
Movie • 1937
Defense Attorney
Gallant Sons
Movie • 1940
Deputy with Charlie (uncredited)
Sun Valley Serenade
Movie • 1941
Customs Officer
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Movie • 1940
First Bartender
One Mile from Heaven
Movie • 1937
Doorman
Gateway
Movie • 1938
Guard
New Moon
Movie • 1940
Bondsman
Castle on the Hudson
Movie • 1940
Court Clerk Reading Verdict (uncredited)
Phantom Raiders
Movie • 1940
Port Policeman
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Movie • 1940
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
An Angel from Texas
Movie • 1940
'General' in the Play
Girl in 313
Movie • 1940
Det. Berner
Johnny Apollo
Movie • 1940
Guard (uncredited)
News Hounds
Movie • 1947
'Dutch' Miller
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Movie • 1943
Marty (uncredited)
Storm Over Bengal
Movie • 1938
Soldier
Over the Wall
Movie • 1938
Prison Guard
The Lost Tribe
Movie • 1949
Capt. Rawlins
Phantoms, Inc.
Movie • 1945
Detective Lester
Blondie Goes to College
Movie • 1942
Joes, 2nd Motorcycle Policeman
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Movie • 1947
Stagehand (uncredited)
Mug Town
Movie • 1942
Cop
Scouts to the Rescue
Movie • 1939
Henchman Pug O'Toole
Senorita from the West
Movie • 1945
Man (uncredited)
Western Union
Movie • 1941
Work Seeker
Up in Mabel's Room
Movie • 1944
Air Raid Warden (uncredited)
Dead Men Tell
Movie • 1941
Homicide Desk Sergeant
Big Town Girl
Movie • 1937
Trooper
Straight, Place and Show
Movie • 1938
Bartender
I Stole a Million
Movie • 1939
Bartender (uncredited)
Double Alibi
Movie • 1940
First Police Dispatcher
Twin Beds
Movie • 1942
Detective
Get Hep to Love
Movie • 1942
Policeman Making Bet
About Face
Movie • 1942
Marine (uncredited)
Pacific Blackout
Movie • 1941
Cop
Sentence of Death
Movie • 1953
Sergeant MacReynolds
Dragnet
Movie • 1947
Police Sgt. Martin
The Go-Getter
Movie • 1937
Officer on the Macon (uncredited)
I Wake Up Screaming
Movie • 1941
Detective (uncredited)
Stranded
Movie • 1935
Bridge Worker (uncredited)
Miss Mink of 1949
Movie • 1949
Mr. McKelvey
International Lady
Movie • 1941
Don
Action in the North Atlantic
Movie • 1943
Quartermaster (uncredited)
Jinx Money
Movie • 1948
Jake 'Cold Deck' Shapiro
Deep Valley
Movie • 1947
Deputy
Hot Water
Movie • 1937
Policeman (uncredited)
Borrowing Trouble
Movie • 1937
Cop
Penrod and Sam
Movie • 1937
Joe (uncredited)
The Strange Woman
Movie • 1946
Lumberjack (uncredited)
Public Deb No. 1
Movie • 1940
Policeman
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Movie • 1943
Tracy - Prison Guard (uncredited)
The Secret Fury
Movie • 1950
Police Sergeant McCafferty (uncredited)
The Falcon in San Francisco
Movie • 1945
Arresting Policeman (uncredited)
Lady Chaser
Movie • 1946
Brady
The Corsican Brothers
Movie • 1941
Messenger, Arturo's Steward (Uncredited)
Grand Central Murder
Movie • 1942
Policeman (uncredited)
I Married a Witch
Movie • 1942
First Prison Guard (uncredited)
A Night to Remember
Movie • 1942
Henderson (uncredited)
Lucky Jordan
Movie • 1942
Army Guard
From This Day Forward
Movie • 1946
Bailiff
Fingers at the Window
Movie • 1942
Policeman Outside Clinic (uncredited)
Strange Affair
Movie • 1944
Mike McCafferty (uncredited)
Homicide
Movie • 1949
Department of Employment Clerk
We Who Are Young
Movie • 1940
2nd Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
Hollywood Canteen
Movie • 1944
Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
No Way Out
Movie • 1950
Sam (uncredited)
The Wrong Road
Movie • 1937
Convict (uncredited)
Marked Woman
Movie • 1937
Court Clerk #1 (uncredited)
In the Navy
Movie • 1941
Cop Who Gives Pomeroy a Ticket (uncredited)
In Society
Movie • 1944
Policeman at Pottery Shop (uncredited)
Little Giant
Movie • 1946
Passenger in Lower Berth #6 (uncredited)
Bullets or Ballots
Movie • 1936
Policeman Getting Papers from Fire (uncredited)
China Clipper
Movie • 1936
Plane Announcer at Miami Airport (uncredited)
Buck Privates Come Home
Movie • 1947
Ed - Guard on Midget Car (uncredited)
Anchors Aweigh
Movie • 1945
Hollywood Bowl Cop (uncredited)
Nobody Lives Forever
Movie • 1946
Ben, Watchman / Henchman (uncredited)
Moontide
Movie • 1942
Policeman
Arsenic & Old Lace
Movie • 1962
Lt. Rooney
Mr. Soft Touch
Movie • 1949
Tollgate Policeman (Uncredited)
Invisible Stripes
Movie • 1939
Doorman (uncredited)
So You Won't Talk?
Movie • 1940
Police Lieutenant
Escape in the Fog
Movie • 1945
Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Sleepers West
Movie • 1941
Trial by Trigger
Movie • 1944
MacIntosh 'Mac'
Strictly in the Groove
Movie • 1942
Big Boy
Undercover Maisie
Movie • 1947
Cop (uncredited)
Lady in the Lake
Movie • 1946
Sergeant (Uncredited)
The Dark Corner
Movie • 1946
Policeman at Gallery (uncredited)
Step by Step
Movie • 1946
Patrol Car Cop
Crowded Paradise
Movie • 1956
Dick Tracy
Movie • 1945
Detective Manning (uncredited)
Heartaches
Movie • 1947
Police Detective (uncredited)
Nora Prentiss
Movie • 1947
New York Detective (uncredited)
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Movie • 1946
Policeman
Hold That Blonde!
Movie • 1945
Radio Cop (uncredited)
A Slight Case of Murder
Movie • 1938
Third Policeman (uncredited)
Possessed
Movie • 1947
Cable Car Motorman (uncredited)
Follow the Boys
Movie • 1944
Loomis (uncredited)
The Great Plane Robbery
Movie • 1950
Police Inspector Bruce
Studio One
TV • 1948
Sergeant MacReynolds
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Lieutenant Rooney
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Mitch
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Summer Playhouse
TV • 1954
Norby
TV • 1955
Mr. Rudge