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.

Kino niedostępny od Robert Ryan

The Dirty Dozen

Col. Everett Dasher Breed

Film 1967

House of Bamboo

Sandy Dawson

Film 1955

Clash by Night

Earl Pfeiffer

Film 1952

Act of Violence

Joe Parkson

Film 1949

A New Dimension in Noir: Filming Inferno in 3D

Self

Film 2017

The Woman on Pier 13

Bradley Collins / Frank Johnson

Film 1950

Battle of the Bulge

General Grey

Film 1965

The Great Gatsby

Jay Gatsby

Film 1958

Bad Day at Black Rock

Reno Smith

Film 1955

The Busy Body

Charley Barker

Film 1967

Lawman

Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan

Film 1971

God's Little Acre

Ty Ty Walden

Film 1958

The Tall Men

Nathan Stark

Film 1955

Born to Be Bad

Nick Bradley

Film 1950

Caught

Smith Ohlrig

Film 1949

The Iron Major

Father Timothy 'Tim' Donovan

Film 1943

Inferno

Donald Whitley Carson III

Film 1953

Beware, My Lovely

Howard Wilton

Film 1952

Day of the Outlaw

Blaise Starrett

Film 1959

The Sky's the Limit

Reginald Fenton

Film 1943

The Boy with Green Hair

Dr. Evans

Film 1948

Men in War

Lt. Benson

Film 1957

Bombardier

Joe Connors

Film 1943

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Harry Walters

Film 1960

Flying Leathernecks

Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin

Film 1951

City Beneath the Sea

Brad Carlton

Film 1953

A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die

New Mexico Gov. Lem Carter

Film 1968

The Secret Fury

David McLean

Film 1950

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City

Captain Nemo

Film 1969

And Hope to Die

Charley

Film 1972

A Regular Bouquet: Mississippi Summer

Narrator (voice)

Film 1964

The Inheritance

Narrator (voice)

Film 1964

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Sandy Dawson (archive footage) (uncredited)

Film 2002

Tender Comrade

Chris Jones

Film 1944

Gangway for Tomorrow

Joe Dunham

Film 1943

Trail Street

Allen Harper

Film 1947

Escape to Burma

Jim Brecan

Film 1955

Best of the Badmen

Jeff Clanton

Film 1951

Lolly-Madonna XXX

Pap Gutshall

Film 1973

Her Twelve Men

Joe Hargrave

Film 1954

Return of the Bad Men

Sundance Kid

Film 1948

The Dirty Game

General Bruce

Film 1965

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

Self (from Clash by Night [1952]) (archive footage)

Film 1986

Marine Raiders

Capt. Dan Craig

Film 1944

The Man Without a Country

Lt. Cmdr. Vaughan

Film 1973

The Canadians

Inspector William Gannon

Film 1961

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

Eddie (uncredited)

Film 1940

The Reason Why

Roger

Film 1970

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

Self (archive footage)

Film 1997

Golden Gloves

Pete Wells

Film 1940

The Ghost Breakers

Intern (uncredited)

Film 1940

The Notorious Lone Wolf

Plainclothesman (uncredited)

Film 1946

North West Mounted Police

Constable Dumont

Film 1940

Lincoln's Doctor's Dog

Abraham Lincoln

Film 1955

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

Self (archive footage)

Film 1991

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

Self (archive footage)

Film 1986

Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America

Self - Host

Film 1969

Custer of the West

Mulligan

Film 1967

The House Without a Name

Film 1956

Queen of the Mob

Jim

Film 1940

Hard, Fast and Beautiful

Seabright Tennis Match Spectator (uncredited)

Film 1951

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Self (archive footage)

Film 2004

Seriale telewizyjne niedostępny od Robert Ryan

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Thomas Bollington

Tv 1963

The David Susskind Show

Self

Tv 1959

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Tv 1963

World War One

Narrator

Tv 1964

Alcoa Theatre

Trilbridge

Tv 1957

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Matt Jessop

Tv 1956

The Steve Allen Show

Self

Tv 1956

The Oscars

Self

Tv 1953

Alcoa Theatre

Mike Ripetti

Tv 1957

Goodyear Theatre

Frank Berry

Tv 1957

World War I: The Complete Story

Narrator

Tv 1964

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Cob Oakley

Tv 1956

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Sheriff Amos Parney

Tv 1956

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Captain William Kraig

Tv 1956

What's My Line?

Self - Mystery Guest

Tv 1950

What's My Line?

Self - Panelist

Tv 1950

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

Tv 1962