Liam Dunn
Liam Dunn
Long a stage and TV supporting player, actor Liam Dunn came to the public's attention relatively late in life as the mildly corrupt mayor of Big Town on Buck Henry's short-lived TV superhero spoof Captain Nice (1967). He did so well playing this waffling ageing politico that he spent virtually the rest of his career as a stock player in the films of Buck Henry's former co-writer Mel Brooks. Following his first film, Catch-22 (1970), Dunn was well-served as sanctimonious western clergyman Reverend Johnson in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles (1974). Liam Dunn worked for Brooks again in the small role of a medical-college "guinea pig" in Young Frankenstein (1975), and as an ancient newspaper vendor literally buried in the pulpish product of his trade in Silent Movie (1976). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Liam Dunn:
- Catch-22 with Alan Arkin , Martin Balsam , Richard Benjamin , Jack Gilford , Buck Henry , Bob Newhart , Anthony Perkins , Paula Prentiss , Martin Sheen , Jon Voight , Orson Welles , Bob Balaban , Marcel Dalio , Norman Fell , Charles Grodin , Elizabeth Wilson , Alan Alda
- Gus with Ed Asner , Don Knotts , Tim Conway , Dick VanPatten , Harold Gould , Tom Bosley , Jeanne Bates , Virginia O'Brien , Kenneth Tobey
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