Ralph Dunn

Ralph Dunn adalah seorang aktor film, televisi, dan panggung Amerika. Dunn lahir di Titusville, Pennsylvania dan menghabiskan tahun-tahun awal tinggal bersama kerabatnya di Canton, Illinois. Ayah Dunn adalah seorang dokter hewan di Angkatan Darat AS selama Perang Dunia I, dan ibunya adalah seorang aktris. Dunn terdaftar sebentar di Universitas Pennsylvania, tetapi keluar setelah satu hari untuk bergabung dengan rombongan Vaudeville. Ralph Dunn menggunakan tubuhnya yang kekar dan suaranya yang kaya dan teatrikal untuk menghasilkan efek yang baik dalam ratusan peran film layar lebar kecil dan penampilan pendukung dalam komedi dua film. Dia datang ke Hollywood pada era awal film talkie, memulai karir filmnya dengan The Crowd Roars tahun 1932. Seorang pria bertubuh besar dengan tatapan tajam, Dunn adalah "kebalikan" yang ideal untuk komedian pendek dan kikuk. Sering berkunjung ke unit subjek pendek Columbia, Dunn muncul di komedi Three Stooges Mummy's Dummies, serta Who Done It? dan pembuatan ulangnya, For Crimin' Out Loud Dunn tetap sibuk hingga tahun 1960-an, tampil di serial TV seperti Kitty Foyle, dan Norby dan film seperti Black Like Me.

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.