Robert Ryan actor
- All known tv series 17
- Total known movies 90
Robert Bushnell Ryan (November 11, 1909 – July 11, 1973) was an American actor who often played hardened cops and ruthless villains.Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, the first child of Timothy Ryan and his wife Mabel Bushnell Ryan. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932, having held the schools heavyweight boxing title all four years of his attendance. After graduation, the 64 Ryan found employment as a stoker on a ship, a WPA worker, and a ranch hand in Montana.Ryan attempted to make a career in show business as a playwright, but had to turn to acting to support himself. He studied acting in Hollywood and appeared on stage and in small film parts during the early 1940s.In January 1944, after securing a contract guarantee from RKO Radio Pictures, Ryan enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served as a drill instructor at Camp Pendleton, in San Diego, California. At Camp Pendleton, he befriended writer and future director Richard Brooks, whose novel, The Brick Foxhole, he greatly admired. He also took up painting.Ryans breakthrough film role was as an anti-Semitic killer in Crossfire (1947), a film noir based on Brookss novel. The role won Ryan his sole career Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor. From then on, Ryans specialty was tough/tender roles, finding particular expression in the films of directors such as Nicholas Ray, Robert Wise and Sam Fuller. In Rays On Dangerous Ground (1951) he portrayed a burnt-out city cop finding redemption while solving a rural murder. In Wises The Set-Up (1949), he played an over-the-hill boxer who is brutally punished for refusing to take a dive. Other important films were Anthony Manns western The Naked Spur, Sam Fullers uproarious Japanese set gangland thriller House of Bamboo, Bad Day at Black Rock, and the socially conscious heist movie Odds Against Tomorrow. He also appeared in several all-star war films, including The Longest Day (1962) and Battle of the Bulge (1965), and The Dirty Dozen. He also played John the Baptist in MGMs Technicolor epic King of Kings (1961) and was the villainous Claggart in Peter Ustinovs adaptation of Billy Budd (1962).In his later years, Ryan continued playing significant roles in major films. Most notable of these were The Dirty Dozen, The Professionals (1966) and Sam Peckinpahs highly influential brutal western The Wild Bunch (1969).Ryan appeared several times on the Broadway stage. His credits there include Clash by Night, Mr. President and The Front Page, the comedy drama about newspapermen.He appeared in many television series as a guest star, including the role of Franklin Hoppy-Hopp in the 1964 episode Who Chopped Down the Cherry Tree? on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour. Similarly, he guest starred as Lloyd Osment in the 1964 episode Better Than a Dead Lion in the ABC psychiatric series, Breaking Point. In 1964, Ryan appeared with Warren Oates in the episode No Comment of CBSs short-lived drama about newspapers, The Reporter, starring Harry Guardino in the title role of journalist Danny Taylor. Ryan appeared five times (1956–1959) on CBSs Dick Powells Zane Grey Theater and twice (1959 and 1961) on the Zane Grey spin-off Frontier Justice. He appeared three times (1962–1964) on the western Wagon Train.
Col. Everett Dasher Breed
Movie 1967
Sandy Dawson
Movie 1955
Earl Pfeiffer
Movie 1952
Joe Parkson
Movie 1949
Self
Movie 2017
Bradley Collins / Frank Johnson
Movie 1950
General Grey
Movie 1965
Jay Gatsby
Movie 1958
Reno Smith
Movie 1955
Charley Barker
Movie 1967
Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan
Movie 1971
Ty Ty Walden
Movie 1958
Nathan Stark
Movie 1955
Nick Bradley
Movie 1950
Smith Ohlrig
Movie 1949
Father Timothy 'Tim' Donovan
Movie 1943
Donald Whitley Carson III
Movie 1953
Howard Wilton
Movie 1952
Blaise Starrett
Movie 1959
Reginald Fenton
Movie 1943
Dr. Evans
Movie 1948
Lt. Benson
Movie 1957
Joe Connors
Movie 1943
Harry Walters
Movie 1960
Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin
Movie 1951
Brad Carlton
Movie 1953
New Mexico Gov. Lem Carter
Movie 1968
David McLean
Movie 1950
Captain Nemo
Movie 1969
Charley
Movie 1972
Narrator (voice)
Movie 1964
Narrator (voice)
Movie 1964
Sandy Dawson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie 2002
Chris Jones
Movie 1944
Joe Dunham
Movie 1943
Allen Harper
Movie 1947
Jim Brecan
Movie 1955
Jeff Clanton
Movie 1951
Pap Gutshall
Movie 1973
Joe Hargrave
Movie 1954
Sundance Kid
Movie 1948
General Bruce
Movie 1965
Self (from Clash by Night [1952]) (archive footage)
Movie 1986
Capt. Dan Craig
Movie 1944
Lt. Cmdr. Vaughan
Movie 1973
Inspector William Gannon
Movie 1961
Eddie (uncredited)
Movie 1940
Roger
Movie 1970
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1997
Pete Wells
Movie 1940
Intern (uncredited)
Movie 1940
Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Movie 1946
Constable Dumont
Movie 1940
Abraham Lincoln
Movie 1955
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1991
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1986
Self - Host
Movie 1969
Mulligan
Movie 1967
Movie 1956
Jim
Movie 1940
Seabright Tennis Match Spectator (uncredited)
Movie 1951
Self (archive footage)
Movie 2004
Thomas Bollington
Tv 1963
Self
Tv 1959
Tv 1963
Narrator
Tv 1964
Trilbridge
Tv 1957
Matt Jessop
Tv 1956
Self
Tv 1956
Self
Tv 1953
Mike Ripetti
Tv 1957
Frank Berry
Tv 1957
Narrator
Tv 1964
Cob Oakley
Tv 1956
Sheriff Amos Parney
Tv 1956
Captain William Kraig
Tv 1956
Self - Mystery Guest
Tv 1950
Self - Panelist
Tv 1950
Self
Tv 1962
