ROBERT RYAN
ACTING
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 make a career in show business as a playwright, but had to turn to acting to support himself.
- The Wild Bunch1969
- The Dirty Dozen1967
- The Naked Spur1953
- House of Bamboo1955
- The Professionals1966
- On Dangerous Ground1951
- Clash by Night1952
- Hour of the Gun1967
- The Racket1951
- The Longest Day1962
- Act of Violence1949
- The Outfit1973
- Odds Against Tomorrow1959
- The Woman on Pier 131950
- Battle of the Bulge1965
- Crossfire1947
- Anzio1968
- The Iceman Cometh1973
- Executive Action1973
- King of Kings1961
- The Busy Body1967
- Berlin Express1948
- Bad Day at Black Rock1955
- Lawman1971
- The Woman on the Beach1947
- God's Little Acre1958
- Horizons West1952
- The Iron Major1943
- Inferno1953
- Beware, My Lovely1952
- The Tall Men1955
- Caught1949
- Born to Be Bad1950
- Day of the Outlaw1959
- The Sky's the Limit1943
- Men in War1957
- The Boy with Green Hair1948
- Bombardier1943
- Back from Eternity1956
- The Set-Up1949
- Ice Palace1960
- Flying Leathernecks1951
- City Beneath the Sea1953
- A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die1968
- The Secret Fury1950
- And Hope to Die1972
- Captain Nemo and the Underwater City1969
- Lonelyhearts1959
- Tender Comrade1944
- Gangway for Tomorrow1943
- Trail Street1947
- About Mrs. Leslie1954
- Escape to Burma1955
- The Proud Ones1956
- Best of the Badmen1951
- Alaska Seas1954
- Lolly-Madonna XXX1973
- Return of the Bad Men1948
- The Crooked Road1965
- The Dirty Game1965
- Behind the Rising Sun1943
- Marine Raiders1944
- The Canadians1961
- Her Twelve Men1954
- The Love Machine1971
- Golden Gloves1940
- The Ghost Breakers1940
- North West Mounted Police1940
- Billy Budd1962
- Custer of the West1967
- Queen of the Mob1940
- Hard, Fast and Beautiful1951
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller2002
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956
- Kraft Suspense Theatre1963
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956