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Liam Dunn
Age: 59 (passed away Apr. 11th, 1976)
Height: 5' 7"
Birth Place: New Jersey, USA
Born: Nov. 12th, 1916
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BIOGRAPHY: Liam Dunn was born in New Jersey in 1916, went to regular high school and entered a small acting school where he constantly acted in plays. Dunn was considered for his first movie role in 1968, but turned it down to work on T.V. Dunn's first big break came in 1972 for his character Judge Maxwell in the film What's Up Doc? On the set Mel Brooks was looking for actors to form a stock, and he recruited Dunn and Madeline Kahn. Dunn is forever remembered for the character Rev. Johnson in Blazing Saddles. Dunn's other works include Young Frankenstien and Silent Movie. After Silent Movie Dunn, now weak and thin was diagnosed with emphesyma. Liam Dunn died in 1976 at age 59.
TRIVIA:
- According to Suzanne Finstad's 2005 biography of Warren Beatty, Dunn (spelled Dunne in the book), was a casting director at CBS in 1957 and gave Beatty his first acting role in a 15-minute Sunday religious show, Lamp Unto My Feet. Another CBS employee, Pamela Illott, is quoted by Finstad as saying that Dunn discovered Steve MacQueen for the same program, and also George C. Scott.
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