Robert Ryan
Known for: Acting
Born: November 11, 1909
Died: July 11, 1973
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
House of Bamboo
1955
Odds Against Tomorrow
1959
The Great Gatsby
1958
God's Little Acre
1958
Horizons West
1952
Inferno
1953
Day of the Outlaw
1959
Men in War
1957
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1960
Back from Eternity
1956
The Set-Up
1949
City Beneath the Sea
1953
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
1969
A Regular Bouquet: Mississippi Summer
1964
The Inheritance
1964
The Proud Ones
1956
Best of the Badmen
1951
Alaska Seas
1954
The Crooked Road
1965
The Canadians
1961
Billy Budd
1962
On Dangerous Ground
1951
Act of Violence
1949
The Woman on Pier 13
1950
Executive Action
1973
Berlin Express
1948
Bad Day at Black Rock
1955
The Busy Body
1967
Lawman
1971
The Woman on the Beach
1947
Born to Be Bad
1950
Beware, My Lovely
1952
The Boy with Green Hair
1948
Ice Palace
1960
Flying Leathernecks
1951
The Secret Fury
1950
And Hope to Die
1972
Lonelyhearts
1959
Tender Comrade
1944
Trail Street
1947
Escape to Burma
1955
About Mrs. Leslie
1954
Lolly-Madonna XXX
1973
Her Twelve Men
1954
Return of the Bad Men
1948
The Dirty Game
1965
Marine Raiders
1944
The Reason Why
1970
The Wild Bunch
1969
The Naked Spur
1953
Clash by Night
1952
The Professionals
1966
Hour of the Gun
1967
The Racket
1951
Battle of the Bulge
1965
Crossfire
1947
Anzio
1968
The Iceman Cometh
1973
The Tall Men
1955
Caught
1949
The Iron Major
1943
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
1968
Gangway for Tomorrow
1943
The Love Machine
1971
The Moviemakers
1973
The Outfit
1973
The Sky's the Limit
1943
Behind the Rising Sun
1943
The Man Without a Country
1973
Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America
1969
The House Without a Name
1956
Bombardier
1943
The Longest Day
1962
Golden Gloves
1940
The Dirty Dozen
1967
A New Dimension in Noir: Filming Inferno in 3D
2017
King of Kings
1961
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
Custer of the West
1967
North West Mounted Police
1940
Hard, Fast and Beautiful!
1951
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
Queen of the Mob
1940
The Ghost Breakers
1940
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
The David Susskind Show
1959
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
World War One
1964
Alcoa Theatre
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
The Steve Allen Show
1956
The Oscars
1953
Goodyear Theatre
1957
World War I: The Complete Story
1964
What's My Line?
1950
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962