
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.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939 · as Soldier (uncredited)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 · as Flophouse Bum (uncredited)

The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · as Deputy (uncredited)

Murder, My Sweet
1944 · as Detective (uncredited)

The Asphalt Jungle
1950 · as Policeman (uncredited)

His Girl Friday
1940 · as Plainclothesman (uncredited)

Laura
1944 · as Fred Callahan (uncredited)

Dick Tracy
1945 · as Detective Manning (uncredited)

Brigham Young
1940 · as Jury Foreman

Undercover Maisie
1947 · as Cop (uncredited)

Scarlet Street
1945 · as First Policeman in Park (uncredited)

Marked Woman
1937 · as Court Clerk #1 (uncredited)

Anchors Aweigh
1945 · as Hollywood Bowl Cop (uncredited)

The Woman in the Window
1944 · as Traffic Cop (uncredited)

Sister Kenny
1946 · as Brisbane Policeman (uncredited)

Hangmen Also Die!
1943 · as Czech Policeman (uncredited)

International Lady
1941 · as Don

All by Myself
1943 · as Hotel Detective