went through basic training in San Diego. After a four-year Navy career he resumed a normal life in California working with horses, however he shortly joined the U.S. Air Force, where he remained employed for another four years. After which, he returned to his life of horses for another nine months before re-joining the Navy. He remained in the Navy until March 1977, at which point he retired at the age of 41. He resided in southern California thereafter, where he attended Santa Monica College. The Navy made a lasting impression on him. Dunn considered his other significant influences to be his mother in law, his junior high coach, and producer Robert Marcus. See also List of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! sketches and characters References External links Tim and Eric's tribute to Richard Dunn 1935 births 2010 deaths American male television actors American male film actors Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery People from Urbana, Illinois