Liam Dunn

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Liam Dunn (born November 12, 1916 in New Jersey , † April 11, 1976 in Granada Hills , California ) was an American actor .

life and career

Liam Dunn began his acting career in mostly smaller theater productions, on Broadway he only played briefly once in March 1945 in the comedy Bright Boy . In 1947 he made his film debut with a small role as a reporter in the film That's My Man with Don Ameche , but due to lack of success he finally turned away from acting and worked instead as a casting director . In this role at CBS Television , Dunn arranged his first television role for the still unknown Warren Beatty , and George C. Scott and Steve McQueen are said to have arranged some of their first television appearances.

At over 50, Dunn became a busy actor after all, starting with a role as the slightly corrupt mayor on Buck Henry's short-lived superhero sitcom Captain Nice in 1967. Dunn was made in cinemas by portraying the grouchy judge in the comedy Is' was , Doc? from Peter Bogdanovich , who has to clear up the chaos in court that his daughter played by Barbra Streisand . The director Mel Brooks was so amused by Dunn's portrayal in this film that he gave him supporting roles in three of his films: In The Wild West , he played the pious Reverend Johnson , in Frankenstein Junior he played the pitiful test subject of Gene Wilders at the beginning of the film Frankenstein and in Silent Movie he embodied the newspaper dealer buried by his own goods.

In addition to the Brooks films, Dunn also played supporting roles in several Disney films . Since he looked older than his actual age, many of his characters were slightly quirky or annoyed older men to whom something often happens in a pitiful way. In total, he accumulated nearly 80 film and television appearances, the majority of them in the last years of his life. Liam Dunn died in 1976 at the age of 59 of emphysema in the middle of the filming of Zotti, das Urviech ; most of his role as a dog catcher in this film was played in his stead by John Fiedler . At the time of his death, he had no immediate dependents.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Broadway League: Liam Dunn - Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Liam Dunn. Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Liam Dunn | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
  4. ^ Mel Brooks: Young Frankenstein: A Mel Brooks Book: The Story of the Making of the Film . Running Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-316-31546-3 ( google.de [accessed November 11, 2018]).
  5. ^ Mark Arnold: Frozen in Ice: The Story of Walt Disney Productions, 1966-1985 . BearManor Media, February 2014 ( google.de [accessed November 13, 2018]).
  6. ^ Daniel C. Blum, John Willis: Screen World . Crown Publishers, 1977 ( google.de [accessed November 13, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Dunn, Liam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH New Jersey , USA
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1976
Place of death Granada Hills , California , USA