Sunday, July 10, 2011

Liam Dunn
(November 12, 1916 – April 11, 1976)


Liam Dunn was born in New Jersey in 1916 and died in Grandada Hills, California, in 1976. He frequently portrayed characters who were verbally and/or physically abused in a slapstick way. Though only 59 years old at his death, he always looked much older and was cast accordingly.



Liam Dunn appeared in television in series such as Bonanza, Room 222, Alias Smith and Jones, Mannix, Gunsmoke, Barney Miller, McMillan & Wife, Rhoda, Sanford and Son, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In the movies he appeared in What's Up, Doc? (1972), Blazing Saddles (1973), Young Frankenstein (1974), and Silent Movie (1976).

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