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Robert Ryan

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

11/11/1909

Day of Death

11/07/1973
(64) years old

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Robert Ryan

Biography

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 s... Read More

Known For

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

The Iceman Cometh

Executive Action

The Outfit

Filmography

Cast

2017

A New Dimension in Noir: Filming Inferno...

as Self

2004

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollyw...

as Self (archive footage)

2002

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Full...

as Sandy Dawson (archive footage) (uncredit...

1997

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

as Self (archive footage)

1991

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

as Self (archive footage)

1986

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

as Self (from Clash by Night [1952]) (archi...

1986

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by K...

as Self (archive footage)

1973

The Iceman Cometh

as Larry Slade

1973

Executive Action

as Foster

1973

The Outfit

as Mailer

1973

The Man Without a Country

as Lt. Cmdr. Vaughan

1973

Lolly-Madonna XXX

as Pap Gutshall

1972

And Hope to Die

as Charley

1971

The Love Machine

as Gregory 'Greg' Austin

1971

Lawman

as Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan

1970

The Reason Why

as Roger

1969

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City

as Captain Nemo

1969

Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America

as Self - Host

1969

The Wild Bunch

as Deke Thornton

1968

Anzio

as Gen. Carson

1968

A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die

as New Mexico Gov. Lem Carter

1967

Custer of the West

as Mulligan

1967

Hour of the Gun

as Ike Clanton

1967

The Dirty Dozen

as Col. Everett Dasher Breed

1967

The Busy Body

as Charley Barker

1966

The Professionals

as Ehrengard

1965

Battle of the Bulge

as General Grey

1965

The Dirty Game

as General Bruce

1965

The Crooked Road

as Richard Ashley

1964

The Inheritance

as Narrator (voice)

1964

A Regular Bouquet: Mississippi Summer

as Narrator (voice)

1962

Billy Budd

as John Claggart, Master of Arms

1962

The Longest Day

as Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin

1961

King of Kings

as John the Baptist

1961

The Canadians

as Inspector William Gannon

1960

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

as Harry Walters

1960

Ice Palace

as Thor Storm

1959

Odds Against Tomorrow

as Earle Slater

1959

Day of the Outlaw

as Blaise Starrett

1959

Lonelyhearts

as William Shrike

1958

God's Little Acre

as Ty Ty Walden

1958

The Great Gatsby

as Jay Gatsby

1957

Men in War

as Lt. Benson

1956

Back from Eternity

as Bill Lonagan

1956

The Proud Ones

as Marshal Cass Silver

1956

The House Without a Name

1955

The Tall Men

as Nathan Stark

1955

House of Bamboo

as Sandy Dawson

1955

Escape to Burma

as Jim Brecan

1955

Bad Day at Black Rock

as Reno Smith

1954

Her Twelve Men

as Joe Hargrave

1954

About Mrs. Leslie

as George Leslie

1954

Alaska Seas

as Matt Kelly

1953

Inferno

as Donald Whitley Carson III

1953

City Beneath the Sea

as Brad Carlton

1953

The Naked Spur

as Ben Vandergroat

1952

Horizons West

as Dan Hammond

1952

Beware, My Lovely

as Howard Wilton

1952

Clash by Night

as Earl Pfeiffer

1951

On Dangerous Ground

as Jim Wilson

1951

The Racket

as Nick Scanlon

1951

Flying Leathernecks

as Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin

1951

Best of the Badmen

as Jeff Clanton

1951

Hard, Fast and Beautiful

as Seabright Tennis Match Spectator (uncred...

1950

Born to Be Bad

as Nick Bradley

1950

The Woman on Pier 13

as Bradley Collins / Frank Johnson

1950

The Secret Fury

as David McLean

1949

The Set-Up

as Stoker

1949

Caught

as Smith Ohlrig

1949

Act of Violence

as Joe Parkson

1948

The Boy with Green Hair

as Dr. Evans

1948

Return of the Bad Men

as Sundance Kid

1948

Berlin Express

as Robert Lindley

1947

Crossfire

as Montgomery

1947

The Woman on the Beach

as Scott Burnett

1947

Trail Street

as Allen Harper

1946

The Notorious Lone Wolf

as Plainclothesman (uncredited)

1944

Marine Raiders

as Capt. Dan Craig

1944

Tender Comrade

as Chris Jones

1943

Gangway for Tomorrow

as Joe Dunham

1943

The Iron Major

as Father Timothy 'Tim' Donovan

1943

Behind the Rising Sun

as Lefty O'Doyle

1943

The Sky's the Limit

as Reginald Fenton

1943

Bombardier

as Joe Connors

1940

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

as Eddie (uncredited)

1940

North West Mounted Police

as Constable Dumont

1940

Golden Gloves

as Pete Wells

1940

Queen of the Mob

as Jim

1940

The Ghost Breakers

as Intern (uncredited)