James Dunn

James Dunn worked on the stage, in vaudeville and as an extra in silent movies before he was signed by Fox in 1931. His first movie with Fox was 1931's Sob Sister (1931). While at Fox, he appeared with Shirley Temple in her first three features: Baby Take a Bow (1934), Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) and Bright Eyes (1934). Dunn's screen character was usually the boy next door or the nice guy. In 1935 musicals at the new 20th Century-Fox were out and Dunn would move to the "B" list, from which he would never return. In The Payoff (1935) he plays the nice guy newspaper columnist whose wife ruins his career. By the late 1930s he was drinking heavily and become unemployable. He would appear in small roles in films during the early 1940s, but those parts were few. In 1945 he was able to make a comeback and win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), but his rejuvenated career would not continue. By 1951 he would again be unemployed and bankrupt. Television would later supply some work and he would be a regular on the series It's a Great Life (1954). Dunn was born 2 November 1901, New York City, New York, USA, and he died 1 September 1967, Santa Monica, California, USA (following abdominal surgery)

Known For: Acting

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1901-11-02

Died: 1967-09-03

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1929	In the Nick of Time		0
2	1930	The Song Plugger	Man in Record Shop	40
3	1931	Bad Girl	Eddie Collins	59
4	1931	Sob Sister	Garry Webster	0
5	1931	Over the Hill	Johnny Shelby as an Adult	82
6	1932	Dance Team	Jimmy Mulligan	0
7	1932	Society Girl	Johnny Malone	60
8	1932	Handle with Care	Bill Gordon	0
9	1933	Sailor's Luck	Jimmy Fenimore Harrigan	50
10	1933	Hello, Sister!	Jimmy	62
11	1933	Hold Me Tight	Chuck Evans	0
12	1933	The Girl in 419	Dr. Daniel French	43
13	1933	Arizona to Broadway	Smiley Wells	70
14	1933	Jimmy and Sally	Jimmy O'Connor	40
15	1933	Take a Chance	Duke Stanley	40
16	1934	Hold That Girl	Barney Sullivan	0
17	1934	Stand Up and Cheer!	Jimmy Dugan	49
18	1934	Change of Heart	Mark McGowan	62
19	1934	Baby Take a Bow	Eddie Ellison	56
20	1934	Have a Heart	James 'Jimmie' Flaherty	70
21	1934	365 Nights in Hollywood	James 'Jimmy' Dale	0
22	1934	Bright Eyes	Loop Merritt	67
23	1935	The Payoff	Joe McCoy	49
24	1935	George White's 1935 Scandals	Eddie	40
25	1935	The Daring Young Man	Don McLane	0
26	1935	Welcome Home	Richard Foster	0
27	1935	Bad Boy	Eddie Nolan	50
28	1936	Hearts in Bondage	Lt. Kenneth Reynolds	44
29	1936	Two-Fisted Gentleman	Mickey	0
30	1936	Come Closer, Folks	Jim Keene	0
31	1936	Mysterious Crossing	Addison Francis Murphy	0
32	1937	We Have Our Moments	John Wade	58
33	1937	Venus Makes Trouble	Buzz Martin	35
34	1937	Living on Love	Gary Martin	58
35	1938	Shadows Over Shanghai	Johnny McGinty	48
36	1939	Pride of the Navy	Speed Brennan	0
37	1939	Mercy Plane	'Speed' Leslie	0
38	1940	Son of the Navy	Chief Gunners Mate Mike Malone	55
39	1940	Hold That Woman!	Jimmy Parker	50
40	1942	The Living Ghost	Nick Trayne	43
41	1943	The Ghost and the Guest	Webster Frye	52
42	1943	Government Girl	Sergeant Joe Blake	52
43	1944	Take It or Leave It	(archive footage) (uncredited)	40
44	1944	Leave It to the Irish	Terry Moran	35
45	1945	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Johnny Nolan	76
46	1945	The Caribbean Mystery	Mr. Smith	50
47	1946	That Brennan Girl	Denny Reagan	53
48	1947	Killer McCoy	Brian McCoy	60
49	1948	Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven	Mike	53
50	1950	The Golden Gloves Story	Joe Riley	60
51	1950	A Wonderful Life	Henry Wood	0
52	1957	The Ninth Day		0
53	1957	Mr. Broadway		0
54	1960	The Bramble Bush	Stew Schaffer	55
55	1962	Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man	Telegrapher	48
56	1966	The Oscar	TV executive	51
57	1968	Shadow Over Elveron	Luke Travers	65
58	1975	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Self (archive footage)	57
59	1976	The Biggest Little Star of the 30's	Self(archive footage)	0
60	1982	Hollywood’s Children	Self (archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One		50
2	1948	Studio One	Frank Gabriel	50
3	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents		56
4	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Joey	63
5	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		73
6	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Dan McLain	73
7	1953	General Electric Theater		63
8	1954	It's a Great Life	Earl Morgan	0
9	1954	Climax!	Eldon Abernathy	33
10	1954	Climax!	Warren	33
11	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	J. Henry Newman	78
12	1955	Screen Director's Playhouse	Sheriff Garrett	65
13	1955	Matinee Theater		50
14	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Gabe Henshaw	69
15	1958	Naked City	Peter Wilkin	55
16	1959	Rawhide		72
17	1959	Rawhide	Dr. Soloman Flood	72
18	1959	Bonanza	Danny Lynch	75
19	1960	Route 66		63
20	1961	Ben Casey		56
21	1961	The Investigators	Chief Reynolds	50
22	1962	The Virginian	Congressman Matthew J. Cosgrove	65
23	1962	Going My Way		57
24	1963	Vacation Playhouse	P.J. Cunningham	70
25	1963	The Fugitive	Lou Bragan	72
26	1963	The Great Adventure	Indian Agent McLean	0
27	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		57
28	1965	Branded		64

James Dunn

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