Robert Ryan
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 11, 1909, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Died
- July 11, 1973
- Movies
- 88
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 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 | 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 |
| 1973 | The Moviemakers | Self |
| 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 | Fernand Fox |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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