Michael Dunn


Actor

About

Also Known As
Gary Neil Miller
Birth Place
Shattuck, Oklahoma, USA
Born
October 20, 1934
Died
August 29, 1973
Cause of Death
Possible Suicide

Biography

Tony- and Oscar-nominated actor. A piano prodigy until disease crippled his elbows, Dunn subsequently enjoyed a singing career and appeared on the New York stage before entering films in 1961. Dunn is perhaps best remembered for his Oscar-nominated supporting turn as one of the observers of the many dramas peopling Stanley Kramer's "Ship of Fools" (1965), and for the delightful relish wi...

Family & Companions

Joy Talbot
Wife

Biography

Tony- and Oscar-nominated actor. A piano prodigy until disease crippled his elbows, Dunn subsequently enjoyed a singing career and appeared on the New York stage before entering films in 1961. Dunn is perhaps best remembered for his Oscar-nominated supporting turn as one of the observers of the many dramas peopling Stanley Kramer's "Ship of Fools" (1965), and for the delightful relish with which he attacked the role of the supremely villainous but extremely amusing Dr. Miguelito Loveless on ten episodes of the deliberately campy cult TV Western, "The Wild Wild West" (1965-70).

Life Events

1961

Film acting debut in "Without Each Other"

Companions

Joy Talbot
Wife

Bibliography