Liam Dunn

Liam Dunn

Birth : 1916-11-12, New Jersey, USA

Death : 1976-04-11

History

Liam Dunn was an American film and television actor and also worked as a casting director for television productions.

Profile

Liam Dunn

Movies

The Quinns
Sean Quinn, Sr.
A drama about three generations of Irish-American firefighters in the New York City Fire Department, and their careers, romances, and growing pains. This pilot film was not picked up to series.
The Shaggy D.A.
Dogcatcher
Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has to keep his change a secret and find just what is causing it, all the while eluding the local dog catcher.
High Velocity
Bennett
Ben Gazzara and Paul Winfield play Vietnam veterans turned mercenaries who are hired to rescue a kidnapped executive.
Gus
Dr. Morgan
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.
Silent Movie
Newsvendor
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.
Peeper
Billy Pate
A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune.
The Night That Panicked America
Charlie
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.
Twigs
Pa
Three middle-aged sisters and their grouchy mother confront issues with men in their lives.
At Long Last Love
Harry
Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together. The foursome do the town, accompanied by Brooke's companion Elizabeth, who throws herself at Michael's butler and chauffeur Rodney James.
Young Frankenstein
Mr. Hilltop
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
Virginia Hill
Auctioneer
The story of Virginia Hill, a former prostitute who was the girlfriend of '40s killer and gangster Bugsy Siegel.
Bank Shot
House Painter
A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in a safer location.
The Healers
Mr. Addison
The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running the hospital.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Mr. Barker
The story of a family living in a New York City slum in 1912, headed by a loving but alcoholic father and a strong-willed mother.
A Cry in the Wilderness
Mr. Hainie
The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive or rational his appearance or argument. However, the creek dries up, indicating an upstream blockage and an imminent flood. Several trips upstream by the son have failed to locate the blockage and now Dad wants to be released...
Killer Bees
Zeb Tucker
A strong-willed woman not only dominates her family of California winegrowers, but also has a strange hold on a colony of bees in her vineyard.
Herbie Rides Again
Doctor
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
Blazing Saddles
Rev. Johnson
A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
Papillon
Old Trustee
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Isn't It Shocking?
Myron Flagg
A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
Emperor of the North
Smile
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
Charley and the Angel
Dr. Sprague
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
The World's Greatest Athlete
Dr. Winslow
Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An African vacation with his assistant (Tim Conway) answers Archer's prayers when he spots the athletically gifted Nanu (Jan-Michael Vincent). Sam counts on Nanu's remarkable abilities to put the team back on the winning track. This upbeat farce boasts an impressive cast of comedians.
A Reflection of Fear
Coroner
A young girl lives with her mother and grandmother. One day her estranged father returns home with a female companion he introduces as his fiance. Soon the girl finds herself in the midst of strange goings-on, which evolve into a web of crime and murder.
The Crooked Hearts
Writer
A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts club, but her scheme boomerangs into a deadly cat-and-mouse game. This marked the TV-movie debut of both Rosalind Russell and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and was sadly also Russell's last film role.
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Drummer
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.
What's Up, Doc?
Judge Maxwell
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Messenger
Holmes and Dr. Watson tackle the case of a curse on the Baskerville bloodline in this ABC Movie of the Week adaptation.
Catch-22
Father
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.
That's My Man
Reporter (uncredited)
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.