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.
Fotos
Películas (89)
A New Dimension in Noir: Filming Inferno in 3D
2017 · Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002 · Sandy Dawson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991 · Self (archive footage)
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986 · Self (archive footage)
The Iceman Cometh
1973 · Larry Slade
Executive Action
1973 · Foster
The Outfit
1973 · Mailer
The Man Without a Country
1973 · Lt. Cmdr. Vaughan
Lolly-Madonna XXX
1973 · Pap Gutshall
The Moviemakers
1973 · Self
And Hope to Die
1972 · Charley
The Love Machine
1971 · Gregory 'Greg' Austin
Lawman
1971 · Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan
The Reason Why
1970 · Roger
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
1969 · Captain Nemo
Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America
1969 · Self - Host
The Wild Bunch
1969 · Deke Thornton
Anzio
1968 · Gen. Carson
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
1968 · New Mexico Gov. Lem Carter
Custer of the West
1967 · Mulligan
Hour of the Gun
1967 · Ike Clanton
The Dirty Dozen
1967 · Col. Everett Dasher Breed
The Busy Body
1967 · Charley Barker
The Professionals
1966 · Ehrengard
Battle of the Bulge
1965 · Maj. Gen. Grey
The Dirty Game
1965 · General Bruce
The Crooked Road
1965 · Richard Ashley
The Inheritance
1964 · Narrator (voice)
A Regular Bouquet: Mississippi Summer
1964 · Narrator (voice)
Billy Budd
1962 · John Claggart, Master of Arms
The Longest Day
1962 · Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
King of Kings
1961 · John the Baptist
The Canadians
1961 · Inspector William Gannon
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1960 · Harry Walters
Ice Palace
1960 · Thor Storm
Odds Against Tomorrow
1959 · Earle Slater
Day of the Outlaw
1959 · Blaise Starrett
Lonelyhearts
1959 · William Shrike
God's Little Acre
1958 · Ty Ty Walden
The Great Gatsby
1958 · Jay Gatsby
Men in War
1957 · Lt. Benson
Back from Eternity
1956 · Bill Lonagan
The Proud Ones
1956 · Marshal Cass Silver
The House Without a Name
1956 · Fernand Fox
The Tall Men
1955 · Nathan Stark
House of Bamboo
1955 · Sandy Dawson
Escape to Burma
1955 · Jim Brecan
Bad Day at Black Rock
1955 · Reno Smith
Her Twelve Men
1954 · Joe Hargrave
About Mrs. Leslie
1954 · George Leslie
Alaska Seas
1954 · Matt Kelly
Inferno
1953 · Donald Whitley Carson III
City Beneath the Sea
1953 · Brad Carlton
The Naked Spur
1953 · Ben Vandergroat
Horizons West
1952 · Dan Hammond
Beware, My Lovely
1952 · Howard Wilton
Clash by Night
1952 · Earl Pfeiffer
On Dangerous Ground
1951 · Jim Wilson
The Racket
1951 · Nick Scanlon
Flying Leathernecks
1951 · Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin
Best of the Badmen
1951 · Jeff Clanton
Hard, Fast and Beautiful!
1951 · Seabright Tennis Match Spectator (uncredited)
Born to Be Bad
1950 · Nick
The Woman on Pier 13
1950 · Bradley Collins / Frank Johnson
The Secret Fury
1950 · David McLean
The Set-Up
1949 · Stoker
Caught
1949 · Smith Ohlrig
Act of Violence
1949 · Joe Parkson
The Boy with Green Hair
1948 · Dr. Evans
Return of the Bad Men
1948 · Sundance Kid
Berlin Express
1948 · Robert Lindley
Crossfire
1947 · Montgomery
The Woman on the Beach
1947 · Scott Burnett
Trail Street
1947 · Allen Harper
Life with Blondie
1945 · Policeman (uncredited)
Marine Raiders
1944 · Capt. Dan Craig
Tender Comrade
1944 · Chris Jones
Gangway for Tomorrow
1943 · Joe Dunham
The Iron Major
1943 · Father Timothy 'Tim' Donovan
Behind the Rising Sun
1943 · Lefty O'Doyle
The Sky's the Limit
1943 · Reginald Fenton
Bombardier
1943 · Joe Connors
The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940 · Eddie (uncredited)
North West Mounted Police
1940 · Constable Dumont
Golden Gloves
1940 · Pete Wells
Queen of the Mob
1940 · Jim
The Ghost Breakers
1940 · Intern (uncredited)
Series (12)
World War One
1964 · Narrator
World War I: The Complete Story
1964 · Narrator
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 · Thomas Bollington
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
The David Susskind Show
1959 · Self
Alcoa Theatre
1957 · Trilbridge, Mike Ripetti
Goodyear Theatre
1957 · Frank Berry
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Matt Jessop, Cob Oakley, Sheriff Amos Parney, Captain William Kraig
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · Self
The Oscars
1953 · Self
What's My Line?
1950 · Self