Ralph Dunn
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Ralph Dunn was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Dunn's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as "Desperate Trails" (1939) with Johnny Mack Brown, "The Lone Ranger Rides Again" (1939) and "The Green Hornet" (1940) with Gordon Jones. He also appeared in "The Lady From Cheyenne" (1941), the musical comedy "In the Navy" (1941) with Bud Abbott and "...
Biography
Ralph Dunn was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Dunn's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as "Desperate Trails" (1939) with Johnny Mack Brown, "The Lone Ranger Rides Again" (1939) and "The Green Hornet" (1940) with Gordon Jones. He also appeared in "The Lady From Cheyenne" (1941), the musical comedy "In the Navy" (1941) with Bud Abbott and "Sun Valley Serenade" (1941). His film career continued throughout the forties in productions like the Gary Cooper comedy "Along Came Jones" (1945), "Escape in the Fog" (1945) and the Humphrey Bogart crime picture "Conflict" (1945). He also appeared in "Dick Tracy" (1945). Nearing the end of his career, he tackled roles in "Too Many Winners" (1947), "Dragnet" (1947) and the John Garfield crime adaptation "Force of Evil" (1948). He also appeared in the thriller "The Big Clock" (1948) with Ray Milland and "Canon City" (1948). Dunn more recently acted in the dramatic adaptation "Black Like Me" (1964) with John Whitmore. Dunn passed away in February 1968 at the age of 68.
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
Black Like Me
(1964)
Priest
From the Terrace
(1960)
Jones
The Pajama Game
(1957)
Hasler
Crowded Paradise
(1956)
Detective Green
Taxi
(1953)
Rafferty
The Enforcer
(1951)
Sergeant
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
(1951)
Motorcycle cop
The Lemon Drop Kid
(1951)
Policeman
A Place in the Sun
(1951)
Policeman
Key to the City
(1950)
Policeman
Kill the Umpire
(1950)
Electrician
No Way Out
(1950)
Sam
Singing Guns
(1950)
Traveler
The Great Plane Robbery
(1950)
Police Inspector Bruce
Surrender
(1950)
Jailer
Mary Ryan, Detective
(1950)
Parker
The Asphalt Jungle
(1950)
Older officer
The Secret Fury
(1950)
McCafferty
Prisoners in Petticoats
(1950)
Police chief
The Admiral Was a Lady
(1950)
Bimble
Mr. Soft Touch
(1949)
Toll gate policeman
Force of Evil
(1949)
Policeman
Miss Mink of 1949
(1949)
McKelvey
Incident
(1949)
Bugs
The Lost Tribe
(1949)
Captain Rawling
The Walking Hills
(1949)
Detective
One Sunday Afternoon
(1949)
Policeman
Home in San Antone
(1949)
Policeman
Homicide
(1949)
Farm official
They Live by Night
(1949)
Policeman
The Fighting Kentuckian
(1949)
Riverman
Fighting Father Dunne
(1948)
Workman
The Big Clock
(1948)
Guard, Janoth Building
My Girl Tisa
(1948)
Attendant
Train to Alcatraz
(1948)
Mark Stevens
The Golden Eye
(1948)
Driscoll
King of the Gamblers
(1948)
Cassidy
Lady at Midnight
(1948)
Al Garrity
Jinx Money
(1948)
Jack "Cold-Deck" Shapiro
In This Corner
(1948)
Gus
Fury at Furnace Creek
(1948)
Wagon master
Adventures in Silverado
(1948)
Canon City
(1948)
Convict blacksmith
The Babe Ruth Story
(1948)
Mr. Ruth
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
(1948)
April Showers
(1948)
Pete, bartender
Till the Clouds Roll By
(1947)
Moving man
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
(1947)
Policeman
Nora Prentiss
(1947)
Detective
Merton of the Movies
(1947)
Officer
The Fabulous Texan
(1947)
Gratton
Road to Rio
(1947)
Foreman
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?
(1947)
Stage hand
Lost Honeymoon
(1947)
Truck driver
News Hounds
(1947)
Dutch Miller
Dragnet
(1947)
Lady Chaser
(1947)
Inspector Brady
Too Many Winners
(1947)
Inspector Pete Rafferty
Three on a Ticket
(1947)
Inspector Pete Rafferty
Lady in the Lake
(1947)
Sergeant
Gallant Bess
(1947)
Tractor C.P.O.
For the Love of Rusty
(1947)
Policeman
Deep Valley
(1947)
Deputy
Swing the Western Way
(1947)
Truck driver
The Ghost Goes Wild
(1947)
Bailiff
Possessed
(1947)
Motorman
Michigan Kid
(1947)
Cavalryman
Buck Privates Come Home
(1947)
Editor
The Beginning or the End
(1947)
Guard
Undercover Maisie
(1947)
Cop
Variety Girl
(1947)
Policeman
California
(1947)
Deadline at Dawn
(1946)
Captain Dill
Colonel Effingham's Raid
(1946)
Commissioner of streets
Saratoga Trunk
(1946)
Engineer
Because of Him
(1946)
Policeman
Murder Is My Business
(1946)
Pete Rafferty
Gas House Kids
(1946)
Police detective
Genius at Work
(1946)
Gilley
Shadowed
(1946)
Police officer
Personality Kid
(1946)
Police officer
Nobody Lives Forever
(1946)
Ben
Larceny in Her Heart
(1946)
Sgt. Pete Rafferty
The Truth About Murder
(1946)
Detective Faber
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
(1946)
Policeman
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
(1946)
Man-at-arms
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
(1946)
Policeman
Step by Step
(1946)
Policeman
Boston Blackie and the Law
(1946)
Bank guard
The Missing Lady
(1946)
Clark
Blondie's Lucky Day
(1946)
Policeman
The Man Who Dared
(1946)
Ferris
From This Day Forward
(1946)
Bailiff
The Dark Corner
(1946)
Policeman
Sister Kenny
(1946)
Brisbane policeman
Wilson
(1945)
Robert M. La Follette
Wonder Man
(1945)
Policeman
Hold That Blonde
(1945)
Radio cop
Where Do We Go from Here?
(1945)
Policeman
The Falcon in San Francisco
(1945)
Police officer
Within These Walls
(1945)
Pearson
Love, Honor and Goodbye
(1945)
Detective
Escape in the Fog
(1945)
Police sergeant
Dick Tracy
(1945)
Manning
Along Came Jones
(1945)
Cotton
Conflict
(1945)
Highway patrolman
Scarlet Street
(1945)
Policeman
Penthouse Rhythm
(1945)
Policeman
Salty O'Rourke
(1945)
Guard at jewelry store
Senorita from the West
(1945)
Circumstantial Evidence
(1945)
Policeman Cleary
An Angel Comes to Brooklyn
(1945)
Sergeant O'Rourke
Out of This World
(1945)
Policeman
Anchors Aweigh
(1945)
Cop at the Hollywood Bowl
Bowery to Broadway
(1944)
Policeman
Government Girl
(1944)
F.B.I. agent
Show Business
(1944)
Taxi driver
Roger Touhy, Gangster
(1944)
Patrolman
Up in Mabel's Room
(1944)
Air raid warden
Laura
(1944)
Fred Callahan
Dark Mountain
(1944)
Chief Sanford
Follow the Boys
(1944)
Loomis
The Princess and the Pirate
(1944)
Murderous pirate
The Woman in the Window
(1944)
Traffic officer
In Society
(1944)
Policeman
Ever Since Venus
(1944)
Policeman
U-Boat Prisoner
(1944)
First Officer Jackson
Strange Affair
(1944)
Doorman
Murder, My Sweet
(1944)
First detective
The Hairy Ape
(1944)
Head guard
Together Again
(1944)
Policeman
This Is the Life
(1944)
Policeman
Hey, Rookie
(1944)
Sergeant
My Kingdom for a Cook
(1943)
Motor policeman
They Got Me Covered
(1943)
Policeman
Pilot #5
(1943)
Deputy
Moonlight in Vermont
(1943)
Taxi driver
All by Myself
(1943)
Hotel detective
He Hired the Boss
(1943)
Carter, FBI man
Action in the North Atlantic
(1943)
Quartermaster
Two Senoritas from Chicago
(1943)
Desk sergeant
The Falcon Strikes Back
(1943)
Motorcycle policeman
Hello Frisco, Hello
(1943)
Waiter
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
(1943)
Guard
Thank Your Lucky Stars
(1943)
Marty
Always a Bridesmaid
(1943)
Laborer
Syncopation
(1942)
Police officer
My Sister Eileen
(1942)
Policeman
Get Hep to Love
(1942)
Policeman
The Big Shot
(1942)
Brassner
A-Haunting We Will Go
(1942)
Policeman
Seven Days' Leave
(1942)
Policeman
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
(1942)
Policeman outside theater
True to the Army
(1942)
Officer
Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
(1942)
Sergeant
Moontide
(1942)
Policeman [George]
Ship Ahoy
(1942)
Flammer
Confessions of Boston Blackie
(1942)
Officer McCarthy
Sing Your Worries Away
(1942)
Burke, policeman
Mug Town
(1942)
Policeman
You're Telling Me
(1942)
Doorman
Jail House Blues
(1942)
Toady
Blondie Goes to College
(1942)
Joe
Grand Central Murder
(1942)
Policeman
The Talk of the Town
(1942)
Sergeant
Henry Aldrich, Editor
(1942)
Policeman, drug store
The Navy Comes Through
(1942)
Police officer
A Night to Remember
(1942)
Henderson
Street of Chance
(1942)
Fireman
Fingers at the Window
(1942)
Policeman
I Married a Witch
(1942)
1st prison guard
Lucky Jordan
(1942)
Army guard
They All Kissed the Bride
(1942)
Bartender
Reap the Wild Wind
(1942)
'Jubilee' lookout
Saboteur
(1942)
FBI man
Just Off Broadway
(1942)
Deputy
The Invisible Agent
(1942)
German lieutenant
Strictly in the Groove
(1942)
Big Boy
Pacific Blackout
(1941)
Cop
Tillie the Toiler
(1941)
Policeman
Sun Valley Serenade
(1941)
Customs officer
The Big Boss
(1941)
Detective
Dead Men Tell
(1941)
Detective
Sleepers West
(1941)
Gibbons
Michael Shayne, Private Detective
(1941)
Bartender
Blonde Inspiration
(1941)
Policeman
Accent on Love
(1941)
Policeman
In the Navy
(1941)
Traffic officer
The Lady from Cheyenne
(1941)
Cork's henchman
Manpower
(1941)
Man at phone
We Go Fast
(1941)
Policeman
World Premiere
(1941)
Pinkerton guard
I Wake Up Screaming
(1941)
Detective
San Francisco Docks
(1941)
Guard
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
(1941)
Policeman
Two Latins from Manhattan
(1941)
American
The Cowboy and the Blonde
(1941)
Studio gateman
Western Union
(1941)
Tall, Dark and Handsome
(1941)
Detective
New Moon
(1940)
Bondsman
Johnny Apollo
(1940)
Guard
We Who Are Young
(1940)
Second officer
Phantom Raiders
(1940)
Policeman
Castle on the Hudson
(1940)
Court clerk
The Grapes of Wrath
(1940)
Deputy
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
(1940)
Cop
Street of Memories
(1940)
Policeman
Son of Roaring Dan
(1940)
Deputy
Diamond Frontier
(1940)
Attendant
Gallant Sons
(1940)
Deputy
Murder over New York
(1940)
Second policeman
You're Not So Tough
(1940)
Valley truck driver
Trail of the Vigilantes
(1940)
Deputy sheriff
Girl in 313
(1940)
Detective "Berner"
Double Alibi
(1940)
Police radio announcer
Margie
(1940)
Steamfitter
Sky Murder
(1940)
Policeman
So You Won't Talk
(1940)
Police lieutenant
Brigham Young--Frontiersman
(1940)
Jury foreman
Elsa Maxwell's Public Deb No. 1
(1940)
Policeman
Sailor's Lady
(1940)
Shore patrol
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
(1940)
Guard
An Angel from Texas
(1940)
General
Argentine Nights
(1940)
Purser
I Stole a Million
(1939)
Bartender
Another Thin Man
(1939)
Baggage man
Invisible Stripes
(1939)
Doorman
Blondie Brings Up Baby
(1939)
Police captain #2
Risky Business
(1939)
Policeman
Behind Prison Gates
(1939)
Guard Evans
Desperate Trails
(1939)
Lon
Beware, Spooks!
(1939)
Police sergeant
The Return of the Cisco Kid
(1939)
Guard
Winner Take All
(1939)
Waiter
King of the Underworld
(1939)
First policeman
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
(1939)
Policeman
Sergeant Madden
(1939)
Policeman
Boy Friend
(1939)
Guard
Tail Spin
(1939)
Mechanic
One Hour to Live
(1939)
Heavy
Waterfront
(1939)
Detective
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
(1939)
Policeman
Smashing the Money Ring
(1939)
First custodian
Indianapolis Speedway
(1939)
Referee
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
(1939)
A Slight Case of Murder
(1938)
Second policeman
The Storm
(1938)
Joe
Alexander's Ragtime Band
(1938)
Captain
Accidents Will Happen
(1938)
Court clerk
Garden of the Moon
(1938)
Fred, hotel detective
Tenth Avenue Kid
(1938)
Egan
Numbered Woman
(1938)
Red
Come On, Leathernecks
(1938)
Captain Niles
Straight Place and Show
(1938)
Bartender
The Patient in Room 18
(1938)
Hotel clerk
Island in the Sky
(1938)
Policeman
Time Out for Murder
(1938)
Policeman
Five of a Kind
(1938)
Policeman
Mr. Moto's Gamble
(1938)
Detective
Speed to Burn
(1938)
Radio car policeman
Newsboys' Home
(1938)
Slugger
City Girl
(1938)
Policeman
Personal Secretary
(1938)
Gateway
(1938)
Guard
The Great O'Malley
(1937)
Police stenographer
Marked Woman
(1937)
Court clerk
Big Town Girl
(1937)
Trooper
White Bondage
(1937)
Talcott's attorney
Kid Galahad
(1937)
Reporter
Alcatraz Island
(1937)
One Mile from Heaven
(1937)
Doorman
Submarine D-1
(1937)
Sailor
Night Key
(1937)
Garage attendant
Melody for Two
(1937)
Official
Borrowing Trouble
(1937)
Cop
Hot Water
(1937)
Policeman
Girl Overboard
(1937)
Motorcycle officer
Reported Missing
(1937)
McNamara
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
(1936)
G-man
Cain and Mabel
(1936)
Public Enemy's Wife
(1936)
Cop
Legion of Terror
(1936)
Detective
Down the Stretch
(1936)
Starter
Fugitive in the Sky
(1936)
Announcer
Misc. Crew (Feature Film)
The Kid from Brooklyn
(1946)
Danny Kaye's double
Cast (Short)
Phantoms, Inc.
(1945)
Trial by Trigger
(1944)
Keep 'Em Sailing
(1942)
The Declaration of Independence
(1938)
It May Happen to You
(1937)
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