Known for Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Liam Dunn (November 12, 1916 – April 11, 1976) was an American character actor. Life and career The New Jersey native's early career was spent on television in series such as Bonanza, Room 222, Alias Smith and Jones, Mannix, Emergency! [S5Ep18] as "Amos", and Gunsmoke. Dunn's breakout role was as the judge (and Barbra Streisand's character's father) in the 1972 film What's Up, Doc?, for which he was noticed by Mel Brooks, who was in the process of forming a stock company of actors.[citation needed] Dunn went on to appear in Brooks films, including Blazing Saddles (1974) as Rev. Johnson, Young Frankenstein (1974) as Mr. Hilltop, and as the Newsvendor in Silent Movie (1976). He also appeared in several Walt Disney productions, such as The World's Greatest Athlete (1973), Charley and the Angel (1973), Herbie Rides Again (1974) and Gus (1976). He frequently portrayed characters who were verbally and/or physically abused in a slapstick way. Additional television credits include Twigs, All in the Family, Barney Miller, McMillan & Wife, Rhoda, Sanford and Son, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, S4Ep6. Additional film credits included roles in Catch-22 (1970), The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972), A Reflection of Fear (1972), Emperor of the North Pole (1973), Papillon (1973), Killer Bees (1974), Bank Shot (1974), At Long Last Love (1975), The Night That Panicked America (1975), Peeper (1976) and High Velocity (1976). Dunn collapsed on the set of Disney's The Shaggy D.A. (1976) during the filming of the roller rink sequence, and as soon as he was hospitalized, died on April 11, 1976, from emphysema in Granada Hills, California. John Fiedler was brought in to complete the role as dog catcher. Though only 59 at the time of his death, Dunn always looked much older than he was, and he was cast accordingly. CLR
Born
November 12, 1916
Died
April 11, 1976 (age 59)
Birthplace
New Jersey, USA
Filmography
34 films, 27 shows


The Quinns
1977 · 1h 18m · US
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.
1976 · 1h 31m · US
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
1976 · 1h 45m · US
Ben Gazzara and Paul Winfield play Vietnam veterans turned mercenaries who are hired to rescue a kidnapped executive.


Gus
1976 · 1h 36m · US
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
1976 · 1h 27m · US
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.


Panache
1976 · 1h 15m · US
A stylish comedy swashbuckler mixing romance, masterful swordplay, political treachery, and 20th-Century pratfalls in 17th-Century France, this film was a pilot for an unrealized series.


Peeper
1975 · 1h 27m · US
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
1975 · 1h 32m · US
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.


Twigs
1975 · 1h 13m · US
Three middle-aged sisters and their grouchy mother confront issues with men in their lives.


At Long Last Love
1975 · 2h 5m · US
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
1974 · 1h 46m · US
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.


The Rare Blue Apes of Cannibal Isle
1974 · 1h 21m · AU
A musical adventure about a young runaway who uncovers an island full of 'fantastic' characters.


Virginia Hill
1974 · 1h 14m · US
The story of Virginia Hill, a former prostitute who was the girlfriend of '40s killer and gangster Bugsy Siegel.


The Bank Shot
1974 · 1h 23m · US
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
1974 · 1h 40m · US
The director of an urban medical center faces various major problems during the course of running the hospital.


A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1974 · 1h 14m · US
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
1974 · 1h 14m · US
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
1974 · 1h 14m · US
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
1974 · 1h 28m · US
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.


Blazing Saddles
1974 · 1h 33m · US
Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new protector. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend Jim are their only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.


Papillon
1973 · 2h 31m · US
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.


Miracle on 34th Street
1973 · 1h 40m · US
A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to prove who he is.


Isn't It Shocking?
1973 · 1h 13m · US
A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.


Emperor of the North
1973 · 1h 58m · US
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.


Charley and the Angel
1973 · 1h 33m · US
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.


Genesis II
1973 · 1h 14m · US
A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.


The World's Greatest Athlete
1973 · 1h 46m · US
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
1972 · 1h 29m · US
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
1972 · 1h 14m · US
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
1972 · 1h 31m · US
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?
1972 · 1h 34m · US
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
1972 · 1h 14m · US
Holmes and Dr. Watson tackle the case of a curse on the Baskerville bloodline in this ABC Movie of the Week adaptation.


Catch-22
1970 · 2h 1m · US
A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.


That's My Man
1947 · 1h 39m · US
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.