Ralph Dunn

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 Dunns father was a veterinarian for the US 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 featurefilm roles and supporting appearances in tworeel comedies He came to Hollywood during the early talkie era beginning his film career with 1932s 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 Mummys 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