James Dunn

• Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
• Birthday: November 2, 1905

An agreeable juvenile lead who managed to shift into a convincing career in character parts, James Dunn was born in Harlem and started his professional life selling lunch wagons to vendors in New Rochelle, New York. Overtaken by the acting bug, he began getting bit parts at Paramount's Astoria studios in the late 1920s. In 1930 he appeared in two Broadway shows, "The Nightstick" and Helen Morgan's "Sweet Adeline". Signed by Fox in 1931, he made 22 films for them (and several loan-outs) in five years. His first, the m…more