About Kevin Dunn
Kevin Dunn (born August 24, 1956) is an American actor who has appeared in supporting roles in numerous films and television series since the 1980s. Dunn's roles include White House Communications Director Alan Reed in the political comedy Dave (1993), U.S. Army Colonel Hicks in the 1998 version of Godzilla, a role he reprised for the animated TV adaptation Godzilla: The Series (1998–2000), Alan Abernathy's father Stuart in Small Soldiers (1998), Sam Witwicky's father Ron in the Transformers film series, Oscar Galvin in the 2010 action thriller Unstoppable and misanthropic White House Chief of Staff Ben Cafferty in Veep. He has also had recurring roles on True Detective in 2014 and on the TV series adaptation of The Mosquito Coast in 2021. In 2000, he co-starred in Bette, a sitcom starring Bette Midler, in which he played her husband in the show's first 11 episodes. Dunn graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1977, and received an honorary doctorate in 2008 from the same school.
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