Actor
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 school's heavyweight boxing title all four years of his attendance. After graduation, the 6'4" Ryan found employment as a stoker on a ship, a WPA worker, and a ranch hand in Montana. Ryan attempted to ...

Known For
Acting
2017 -- A New Dimension in Noir: Filming Inferno in 3D | Self
2004 -- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage)
2002 -- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Sandy Dawson (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997 -- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line | Self (archive footage)
1991 -- Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self (archive footage)
1986 -- Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Self (from Clash by Night [1952]) (archive footage)
1986 -- The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | Self (archive footage)
1973 -- The Iceman Cometh | Larry Slade
1973 -- Executive Action | Foster
1973 -- The Outfit | Mailer
1973 -- The Man Without a Country | Lt. Cmdr. Vaughan
1973 -- Lolly-Madonna xxx | Pap Gutshall
1972 -- And Hope to Die | Charley
1971 -- The Love Machine | Gregory 'Greg' Austin
1971 -- Lawman | Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan
1970 -- The Reason Why | Roger
1969 -- Captain Nemo and the Underwater City | Captain Nemo
1969 -- Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America | Self - Host
1969 -- The Wild Bunch | Deke Thornton
1968 -- Anzio | Gen. Carson
1968 -- A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die | New Mexico Gov. Lem Carter
1967 -- Custer of the West | Mulligan
1967 -- Hour of the Gun | Ike Clanton
1967 -- The Dirty Dozen | Col. Everett Dasher Breed
1967 -- The Busy Body | Charley Barker
1966 -- The Professionals | Ehrengard
1965 -- Battle of the Bulge | General Grey
1965 -- The Dirty Game | General Bruce
1965 -- The Crooked Road | Richard Ashley
1964 -- The Inheritance | Narrator (voice)
1964 -- A Regular Bouquet: Mississippi Summer | Narrator (voice)
1962 -- Billy Budd | John Claggart, Master of Arms
1962 -- The Longest Day | Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
1961 -- King of Kings | John the Baptist
1961 -- The Canadians | Inspector William Gannon
1960 -- The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Harry Walters
1960 -- Ice Palace | Thor Storm
1959 -- Odds Against Tomorrow | Earle Slater
1959 -- Day of the Outlaw | Blaise Starrett
1959 -- Lonelyhearts | William Shrike
1958 -- God's Little Acre | Ty Ty Walden
1958 -- The Great Gatsby | Jay Gatsby
1957 -- Men in War | Lt. Benson
1956 -- Back from Eternity | Bill Lonagan
1956 -- The Proud Ones | Marshal Cass Silver
1956 -- The House Without a Name |
1955 -- Lincoln's Doctor's Dog | Abraham Lincoln
1955 -- The Tall Men | Nathan Stark
1955 -- House of Bamboo | Sandy Dawson
1955 -- Escape to Burma | Jim Brecan
1955 -- Bad Day at Black Rock | Reno Smith
1954 -- Her Twelve Men | Joe Hargrave
1954 -- About Mrs. Leslie | George Leslie
1954 -- Alaska Seas | Matt Kelly
1953 -- Inferno | Donald Whitley Carson III
1953 -- City Beneath the Sea | Brad Carlton
1953 -- The Naked Spur | Ben Vandergroat
1952 -- Horizons West | Dan Hammond
1952 -- Beware, My Lovely | Howard Wilton
1952 -- Clash by Night | Earl Pfeiffer
1951 -- On Dangerous Ground | Jim Wilson
1951 -- The Racket | Nick Scanlon
1951 -- Flying Leathernecks | Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin
1951 -- Best of the Badmen | Jeff Clanton
1951 -- Hard, Fast and Beautiful | Seabright Tennis Match Spectator (uncredited)
1950 -- Born to Be Bad | Nick Bradley
1950 -- The Woman on Pier 13 | Bradley Collins / Frank Johnson
1950 -- The Secret Fury | David McLean
1949 -- The Set-Up | Stoker
1949 -- Caught | Smith Ohlrig
1949 -- Act of Violence | Joe Parkson
1948 -- The Boy with Green Hair | Dr. Evans
1948 -- Return of the Bad Men | Sundance Kid
1948 -- Berlin Express | Robert Lindley
1947 -- Crossfire | Montgomery
1947 -- The Woman on the Beach | Scott Burnett
1947 -- Trail Street | Allen Harper
1946 -- The Notorious Lone Wolf | Plainclothesman (uncredited)
1944 -- Marine Raiders | Capt. Dan Craig
1944 -- Tender Comrade | Chris Jones
1943 -- Gangway for Tomorrow | Joe Dunham
1943 -- The Iron Major | Father Timothy 'Tim' Donovan
1943 -- Behind the Rising Sun | Lefty O'Doyle
1943 -- The Sky's the Limit | Reginald Fenton
1943 -- Bombardier | Joe Connors
1940 -- The Texas Rangers Ride Again | Eddie (uncredited)
1940 -- North West Mounted Police | Constable Dumont
1940 -- Golden Gloves | Pete Wells
1940 -- Queen of the Mob | Jim
1940 -- The Ghost Breakers | Intern (uncredited)
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