James Dunn (actor)

James Howard Dunn, billed as Jimmy Dunn in his early career, was an American stage, film, and television actor, and vaudeville performer. The son of a New York stockbroker, he initially worked in his father's firm but was more interested in theater. He landed jobs as an extra in short films produced by Paramount Pictures in its Long Island studio, and also performed with several stock theater companies, culminating with playing the male lead in the 1929 Broadway musical Sweet Adeline. This performance attracted the attention of film studio executives, and in 1931, Fox Film signed him to a Hollywood contract.

2 November 1901

Born on the same birth day (2 November): Ann Rutherford • Battista Pininfarina • Bruce Welch • Danny Amendola • Earl Carroll (vocalist) • Georges Sorel • Giorgos Kolokithas • Henrik Schück • Isobel Andrews • J. D. Souther • Jim Bakken • Joseph De Piro • Luchino Visconti • Natalie Pluskota • Ray Walston • Richard E. Taylor • Tibor Pleiß • Warren G. Harding

Born in the same month (November 1901): Bennie Osler • Béla Juhos • Craig Wood (golfer) • Eddie Paynter • F. Van Wyck Mason • James Luther Adams • Joaquín Rodrigo • José Leandro Andrade • Lee Strasberg • Leopold III of Belgium • Lionel Hitchman • Martin Dies Jr. • Norah McGuinness • Spyridon Marinatos • Ted Husing • V. Shantaram • Walter Hallstein • William Sterling Parsons