Ralph Dumke

Ralph Dumke

Birth : 1899-07-25, South Bend, Indiana, USA

Death : 1964-01-04

History

Ralph Dumke (July 25, 1899 - January 4, 1964) was an American actor.

Profile

Ralph Dumke

Movies

All in a Night's Work
Baker
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.
Loving You
Jim Tallman
Deke Rivers is a delivery man who is discovered by publicist Glenda Markle and country-western musician Tex Warner who want to promote the talented newcomer to fame and fortune, giving him every break he deserves. Romantic complications arise as Susan, another singer in the group, offers him devoted admiration as Glenda leads him on with promises of a golden future.
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Warren Gillie
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.
Francis in the Haunted House
Mayor Hargrove
A Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got 'Em! ...and it's every ghost for himself!
When Gangland Strikes
Walter Pritchard
In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a blackmail scheme.
Forever, Darling
Henry Opdyke
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can see, to tell her that there will be trouble ahead if they do not work out their problems. Lorenzo is developing insecticide #383 at Finlay Vega Chemical Co. and plans to test it on a camping trip that he takes with Susan, but the trip becomes an obstacle course for him.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Police Chief Nick Grivett
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Artists and Models
Mr. Trimm (uncredited)
Rick Todd is a struggling artist who lives with his pal Eugene Fullstack who happens to be a writer of children's stories. Rick would like to break in the comic book industry but he has one problem, he can't write. However, Eugene's overactive imagination as well as his obsession with comic books causes him to have wild dreams of a super hero named Vincent the Vulture and Rick uses Eugene's dreams to create a comic book featuring Vincent. Living in the same building as the boys is Abigail Parker and her roommate Bessie Sparrowbush. Abigail happens to be the author of Eugene's favorite comic book, Bat Lady, and Bessie is her model. During one of Eugene's dreams, he comes up with the formula for a secret rocket fuel, which happens to be an exact copy of half of a formula the government is working on. Soon, a group of enemy agents are after Eugene in order to get the rest of the formula.
The Desperate Hours
Clint
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
Hell's Island
Casino Drunk
After being dumped by his fiancée, hard-drinking and depressed Mark Cormack loses his job in the Los Angeles district attorney's office and serves as bouncer in a Las Vegas casino. A wheelchair-using stranger Barzland hires him to locate a ruby that disappeared in a Caribbean plane crash. He lures Cormack into doing the job by telling him it may be in the possession of the very woman who jilted him. The ex-detective flies to remote island Santo Rosario to find the stone and investigate the mystery. When he finds his old flame he finds that her husband is in prison. Cormack, again falling for Janet, is convinced into helping him break out of jail. But Janet has other plans.
Violent Saturday
Hotel Desk Clerk
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
They Rode West
Dr. Gibson
Dr. Allen Seward is assigned to a western cavalry post where his predecessors had been drunks and slackers. The post doesn't take kindly to him either, especially after he disregards regulations and tends to sick Indians on the malaria-infested reservation. The Indians break away from the reservation to move to a healthier higher ground, and when they join with the Comanches to besiege the fort, Seward is branded as a "woodhawk", the bird that turns against its own. Donna Reed is present as the niece of the post commander; Phil Carey is a cavalry captain that believes the only good Indian is a dead Indian, and May Wynn is the white girl raised by the Indians and married to the chief's son.
Massacre Canyon
Phineas J. Canfield
A band of renegade Apaches attempts to steal a shipment of rifles being transported to Fort Collins.
Rails Into Laramie
Frank Logan
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
She Couldn't Say No
Sheriff
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
Alaska Seas
Dad Jackson
A crooked salmon fishermantries to steal his best friend's fiancée and put him out of business.
It Should Happen to You
Beckhard (uncredited)
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
The War of the Worlds
Buck Monahan (uncredited)
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Alesworth
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie has to be a reluctant witness.
The President's Lady
Col. Stark
The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.
Lili
M. Corvier
Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?
The Mississippi Gambler
Caldwell
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.
Hurricane Smith
Ben Hawkins
South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.
Holiday for Sinners
Mike Hennighan
Three old friends reunite during Mardi Gras and try to forget their problems.
The San Francisco Story
Winfield Holbert (as Ralph E. Dumke)
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn't until he meets a beautiful San Franciscan (Yvonne De Carlo), that Nelson decides to get involved with bringing law-and-order to the city by the bay!
Carbine Williams
Andrew White
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
Boots Malone
Beckett
An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge.
The Mob
Police Commissioner
An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.
The Law and the Lady
James Horace Caighn
A former housemaid (Garson) now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in California go awry.
When I Grow Up
Carp
Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather. Leafing through the yellowed pages, Josh discovers that Grandpa went through many of the same childhood travails that he is enduring at that moment. Armed with a renewed understanding of and appreciation for his elders, Josh decides to stick around for a while and see how things develop.
Where Danger Lives
Klauber
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.
The Fireball
Bruno Crystal
Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition.
The Breaking Point
Hannagan
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
Mystery Street
Jim Black the Tattooist
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
All the King's Men
Tiny Duffy
All The King's Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the governor's mansion.