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Robert Ryan
Highest Rated: 100% Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Lowest Rated: 20% Woman on Pier 13 (1950)
Birthday: Nov 11, 1909
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Imposing, ruggedly handsome lead who made his film debut in "Golden Gloves" (1940) and signed with RKO two years later. Ryan hit his stride in the late 1940s playing a string of psychopathic or hard-boiled types, notably the anti-Semitic murderer in "Crossfire" (1947) and the over-the-hill pug in the classic boxing drama, "The Set-Up" (1949). He went on to appear in a host of films through the mid-70s, often giving fine performances in decidedly mediocre vehicles. Ryan was memorable as William Holden's buddy-turned-nemesis in Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" (1969).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Killers of the Wild |
Unknown (Character), Director |
- | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | Lolly Madonna XXX | Pap Gutshall (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 60% | 59% | Executive Action | Foster (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 91% | 74% | The Iceman Cometh | Larry Slade (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Without a Country | Lt. Cmdr. Vaughan (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | And Hope to Die | Charley (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Love Machine | Gregory Austin (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 70% | 63% | Lawman | Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Front Page | Walter Burns (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Captain Nemo and the Underwater City | Captain Nemo (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 91% | 90% | The Wild Bunch | Deke Thornton (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 25% | 32% | Custer of the West | Mulligan (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 67% | 43% | Anzio | Gen. Carson (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die | Gov. Lem Carter (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Busy Body | Charley Barker (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 88% | 50% | Hour of the Gun | Ike Clanton (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 81% | 90% | The Dirty Dozen | Col. Everett Dasher Breed (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Guilty or Not Guilty | Andrew Dixon (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dirty Game | General Bruce (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 89% | 82% | The Professionals | Hans Ehrengard (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 63% | 67% | Battle of the Bulge | Gen. Joe Grey (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Crooked Road | Richard Ashley (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 92% | 85% | Billy Budd | John Claggart (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 87% | 90% | The Longest Day | Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Canadians | Inspector William Gannon (Character) | - | 1961 |
| 85% | 78% | King of Kings | John The Baptist (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Ice Palace | Thor Storm (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 100% | 71% | Day of the Outlaw | Blaise Starrett (Character) | - | 1959 |
| 86% | 83% | Odds Against Tomorrow | Earle Slater (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | God's Little Acre | Ty Ty Walden (Character) | - | 1958 |
| 70% | 52% | Lonelyhearts | William Shrike (Character) | - | 1958 |
| 90% | 75% | Men in War | Lt. Benson (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Back From Eternity | Bill Lonagan (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | The Proud Ones | Marshal Cass Silver (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 78% | 61% | The Tall Men | Nathan Stark (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 85% | 58% | House of Bamboo | Sandy Dawson (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Escape to Burma | Jim Brecan (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 97% | 87% | Bad Day at Black Rock | Reno Smith (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | About Mrs. Leslie | George Leslie (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Her Twelve Men | Joe Hargrave (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alaska Seas | Matt Kelly (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 100% | 52% | Inferno | Donald Whitley Carson III (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 100% | 76% | The Naked Spur | Ben Vandergroat (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | City Beneath the Sea | Brad Carlton (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Beware My Lovely | Howard Wilton (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Horizons West | Dan Hammond (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 65% | 69% | Clash by Night | Earl Pfeiffer (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 89% | 79% | On Dangerous Ground | Jim Wilson (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 75% | 63% | Flying Leathernecks | Capt. Carl `'Griff'` Griffin (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 33% | 44% | The Racket | Nick Scanlon (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Best of the Badmen | Jefferson "Jeff" Clanton (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 20% | 40% | Woman on Pier 13 |
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- | 1950 |
| 60% | 56% | Born to Be Bad | Nick Bradley (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The Secret Fury | David McLean (Character) | - | 1950 |
| 85% | 89% | The Set-Up | Stoker (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 100% | 77% | Caught | Smith Ohlrig (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 92% | 76% | Act of Violence | Joe Parkson (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 82% | 56% | The Boy With Green Hair | Dr. Evans (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 28% | Return of the Bad Men | Sundance Kid (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 80% | 62% | Berlin Express | Robert Lindley (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 49% | The Woman on the Beach | Scott (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Trail Street | Allen Harper (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 88% | 75% | Crossfire | Montgomery (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marine Raiders | Capt. Dan Craig (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | The Sky's the Limit | Reginald Fenton (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Behind the Rising Sun | Lefty O'Doyle (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | Bombardier | Joe Connors (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Iron Major | Father Timothy 'Tim' Donovan (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gangway for Tomorrow | Unknown (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 32% | Tender Comrade | Chris Jones (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Northwest Mounted Police | Const. Dumont (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Golden Gloves | Pete Wells (Character) | - | 1940 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Father John Bernard (Guest Star) | 1962 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theater | Unknown (Character) | 1956 1958-1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Turn of Fate | Jeff Banner (Character) | 1957-1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Screen Directors Playhouse | Unknown (Character) | 1955 |