Eddie Dunn
Biography
Eddie Dunn was an American actor who spent his career in comedy. He began performing on a local radio station while in high school in Waco, Texas, and entered films with Vitagraph in 1915. By 1927 he was a supporting player in Charley Bowers's comedies at Educational Pictures. In 1929 he joined the Hal Roach studio and became a stock company regular, appearing in shorts with Laurel and Hardy, Charley Chase, and Thelma Todd. Usually cast as a policeman, detective, or another authority figure, he started freelancing in 1933 and took character roles in hundreds of features. He had recurring parts in RKO's Mexican Spitfire and The Falcon series. He played a storm trooper in The Great Dictator (1940), a chauffeur in The Bank Dick (1940), and the bartender in Mighty Joe Young. He also hosted the radio quiz True or False, announced for The Jack Berch Show, and appeared in a 1950 episode of The Lone Ranger.
55years old at death
- Born Brooklyn
- Died Hollywood
- Star sign: AriesThe sign runs March 21 to April 19
- Also credited as Edward Frank Dunn
Movie Career
- Films
- 13
- Career span
- 16 years1933 to 1949
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Big break
Dunn signed with the Hal Roach studio in 1929 and joined its stock company, appearing in short subjects and featurettes with Laurel and Hardy, Thelma Todd, and Charley Chase. He and Chase worked so closely that Dunn co-directed six Chase shorts.
First role
Dunn broke into films in 1915 with the Vitagraph studio, where he worked with its star comedians Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew and Larry Semon.
First role
Dunn was still in high school in Waco, Texas, when he and some fellow students started performing on a local radio station.
Eddie Dunn movies on Netflix
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Also two films together4 more actors
- J. Edward BrombergI Shot Jesse James (1949) and Invisible Agent (1942)
- John HamiltonArmy Wives (1944) and The Spirit of Culver (1939)
- Jack OakieHello, Frisco, Hello (1943) and The Great Dictator (1940)
- Elyse KnoxArmy Wives (1944) and Hit the Ice (1943)
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