Robert Ryan

Robert Ryan

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. He studied acting in Hollywood and appeared on stage and in small film parts during the early 1940s. In January 1944, after securing a contract guarantee from RKO Radio Pictures, Ryan enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served as a drill instructor at Camp Pendleton, in San Diego, California. At Camp Pendleton, he befriended writer and future director Richard Brooks, whose novel, The Brick Foxhole, he greatly admired. He also took up painting. Ryan's breakthrough film role was as an anti-Semitic killer in Crossfire (1947), a film noir based on Brooks's novel. The role won Ryan his sole career Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor. From then on, Ryan's specialty was tough/tender roles, finding particular expression in the films of directors such as Nicholas Ray, Robert Wise and Sam Fuller. In Ray's On Dangerous Ground (1951) he portrayed a burnt-out city cop finding redemption while solving a rural murder. In Wise's The Set-Up (1949), he played an over-the-hill boxer who is brutally punished for refusing to take a dive. Other important films were Anthony Mann's western The Naked Spur, Sam Fuller's uproarious Japanese set gangland thriller House of Bamboo, Bad Day at Black Rock, and the socially conscious heist movie Odds Against Tomorrow. He also appeared in several all-star war films, including The Longest Day (1962) and Battle of the Bulge (1965), and The Dirty Dozen. He also played John the Baptist in MGM's Technicolor epic King of Kings (1961) and was the villainous Claggart in Peter Ustinov's adaptation of Billy Budd (1962). In his later years, Ryan continued playing significant roles in major films. Most notable of these were The Dirty Dozen, The Professionals (1966) and Sam Peckinpah's highly influential brutal western The Wild Bunch (1969). Ryan appeared several times on the Broadway stage. His credits there include Clash by Night, Mr. President and The Front Page, the comedy drama about newspapermen. He appeared in many television series as a guest star, including the role of Franklin Hoppy-Hopp in the 1964 episode "Who Chopped Down the Cherry Tree?" on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour. Similarly, he guest starred as Lloyd Osment in the 1964 episode "Better Than a Dead Lion" in the ABC psychiatric series, Breaking Point. In 1964, Ryan appeared with Warren Oates in the episode "No Comment" of CBS's short-lived drama about newspapers, The Reporter, starring Harry Guardino in the title role of journalist Danny Taylor. Ryan appeared five times (1956–1959) on CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater and twice (1959 and 1961) on the Zane Grey spin-off Frontier Justice. He appeared three times (1962–1964) on the western Wagon Train.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1909-11-11
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As: Robert Bushnell Ryan, Роберт Райан

Movies List of Robert Ryan

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The Wild Bunch

1969 Movie
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The Dirty Dozen

1967 Movie
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Billy Budd

1962 Movie
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House of Bamboo

1955 Movie
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The Naked Spur

1953 Movie
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Clash by Night

1952 Movie
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The Professionals

1966 Movie
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On Dangerous Ground

1951 Movie
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Hour of the Gun

1967 Movie
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The Racket

1951 Movie
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Odds Against Tomorrow

1959 Movie
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The Longest Day

1962 Movie
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Act of Violence

1949 Movie
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The Outfit

1973 Movie
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The Woman on Pier 13

1950 Movie
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Battle of the Bulge

1965 Movie
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Crossfire

1947 Movie
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Anzio

1968 Movie
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The Iceman Cometh

1973 Movie
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Executive Action

1973 Movie
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Berlin Express

1948 Movie
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The Great Gatsby

1958 Movie
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King of Kings

1961 Movie
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Bad Day at Black Rock

1955 Movie
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The Busy Body

1967 Movie
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Lawman

1971 Movie
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God's Little Acre

1958 Movie
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Horizons West

1952 Movie
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The Tall Men

1955 Movie
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Born to Be Bad

1950 Movie
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Caught

1949 Movie
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Beware, My Lovely

1952 Movie
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The Iron Major

1943 Movie
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Inferno

1953 Movie
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Day of the Outlaw

1959 Movie
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The Sky's the Limit

1943 Movie
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Men in War

1957 Movie
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Bombardier

1943 Movie
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Back from Eternity

1956 Movie
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Ice Palace

1960 Movie
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Flying Leathernecks

1951 Movie
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The Set-Up

1949 Movie
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City Beneath the Sea

1953 Movie
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The Secret Fury

1950 Movie
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And Hope to Die

1972 Movie
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The Inheritance

1964 Movie
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Lonelyhearts

1959 Movie
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Tender Comrade

1944 Movie
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Gangway for Tomorrow

1943 Movie
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Trail Street

1947 Movie
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Escape to Burma

1955 Movie
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About Mrs. Leslie

1954 Movie
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The Proud Ones

1956 Movie
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Best of the Badmen

1951 Movie
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Alaska Seas

1954 Movie
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Lolly-Madonna XXX

1973 Movie
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Her Twelve Men

1954 Movie
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Return of the Bad Men

1948 Movie
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The Crooked Road

1965 Movie
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The Dirty Game

1965 Movie
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Behind the Rising Sun

1943 Movie
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Marine Raiders

1944 Movie
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The Canadians

1961 Movie
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The Reason Why

1970 Movie
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The Love Machine

1971 Movie
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Golden Gloves

1940 Movie
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The Ghost Breakers

1940 Movie
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Custer of the West

1967 Movie
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Queen of the Mob

1940 Movie