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James Howard Dunn (November 2, 1901 – September 1, 1967)〔1910 U.S. Federal Census, Stamford City Ward 2, Fairfield, CT, enumeration district 113, page 18A. The enumeration indicates that Dunn was 8 years old as of April 1910.〕 was an American film actor. ==Biography== Born in New York City, Dunn was the son of a Wall Street stockbroker. He joined his father in his business for three years. Dunn started his entertainment career in vaudeville before progressing to films at Paramount's Astoria studios in the late 1920s starting as an extra.〔(''James Dunn'' ). Allocine.co.uk.〕 After a gap where he appeared in stock companies, he returned to films. He was signed by Fox in 1931, making 22 films and several more on loan-out.〔 Dunn made a strong first impression with his first role, in director Frank Borzage's ''Bad Girl''.〔 He went on to make several formula films, including ''Society Girl'' (1932), in which he played a boxer distracted by his girlfriend (Peggy Shannon) and whose manager, played by Spencer Tracy in a rare supporting role, walks out in frustration; and ''Hello, Sister!'' (1933), a butchered recutting and partial reshooting of Erich von Stroheim's film ''Walking Down Broadway'' with Boots Mallory and ZaSu Pitts. Dunn's early successes included four Shirley Temple films in 1934, ''Baby Take a Bow'', ''Stand Up and Cheer!'', ''Change of Heart'' and ''Bright Eyes''.〔 The roles that followed did nothing to further his career, and during the late 1930s his prospects were further diminished by a battle with alcoholism. In 1945 his performance in ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'' earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He portrayed an alcoholic but good-natured Irish father, a dreamer whose presence brought joy to those around him even though he was never a success in the traditional sense. His success was short-lived and by the beginning of the 1950s, he was unemployed, bankrupt, and once again depending on alcohol. After 1950, he appeared in only three feature films, but continued working in television until his death. From 1954 to 1956, he appeared in the NBC sitcom ''It's a Great Life'' as Earl Morgan, the deadbeat brother-in-law of the main character Amy Morgan (played by Frances Bavier) who was always concocting "get-rich-quick" schemes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Dunn (actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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