The genial, slightly stocky Hollywood character actor Kevin Dunn graced the casts of some of the highest grossing and most enjoyable A-listers of the '80s, '90s, and 2000s. With a pleasant (if unremarkable) countenance, this brother of Second City veteran (and onetime Saturday_Night_Live mainstay) Nora_Dunn cut his chops playing everymen in American movies and one-shot television episodes. Kevin Dunn lacked the sketch comedy background of his arguably more famous sibling but quickly chalked up an equally extensive resumé at about the same time.


Dunn debuted on camera in the mid-'80s, with a recurring role on the series comedy drama Jack & Mike (1986), co-starring Shelley_Hack and Tom_Mason, but Alan_Parker's harrowing civil-rights drama Mississippi_Burning (in which he played Agent Bird) marked his first real breakthrough. From that point on, he became ever-present in such blockbusters as Ghostbusters_2 (1989), Blue_Steel (1990), Only the Lonely (1991), Hot_Shots! (1991), Chaplin (1992), and Dave (1993). Directors often cast Dunn as an emotional (or political) support to a heavy, such as his brief evocation of Nixon aide (and eventual Christian spokesperson) Chuck_Colson in Oliver_Stone's biopic Nixon (1995), that of Lou Logan (opposite Nicolas_Cage) in Brian_De_Palma's muddled, flawed paranoid thriller Snake_Eyes (1998), and that of Alex (alongside Sean_Penn) in the political drama All_The_King's_Men (2006). In 2007, Dunn appeared in the blockbuster action hit Transformers as Ron Witwicky, the father of lead actor Shia LaBeouf's character, Sam. Dunn also had a role in the underperforming Tom_Cruise/Robert_Redford/Meryl_Streep drama Lions for Lambs. In the fall of that year, Dunn found success on the sitcom Samantha_Who? as the father of the amnesia-afflicted main character (Christina_Applegate). Nathan Southern, Rovi

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