Robert Ryan

Personal Info

Birthday

November 11, 1909

Day of Death

1973-07-11

(63 years old)

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Also Known As

Robert Bushnell Ryan

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Robert Ryan

Biography

Robert Bushnell Ryan 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 make a career in show business as a playwright, but had to turn to acting to support himself.

Known For

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Alcoa Theatre

The Dirty Dozen

The Professionals

The Boy with Green Hair

The Ghost Breakers

The Wild Bunch

Filmography

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