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Robert Ryan

Robert Ryan

cumpleaños: 1909-11-11 | lugar de nacimiento: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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.

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título

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1973
Acción ejecutiva

as    Foster

1973
El Repartidor de Hielo

as    Larry Slade

1973
La organización criminal

as    Mailer

1971
En nombre de la ley

as    Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan

1969
La ciudad de oro del capitán Nemo

as    Captain Nemo

1969
Grupo salvaje

as    Deke Thornton

1968
La batalla de Anzio

as    Gen. Carson

1968
Un minuto para rezar y un segundo para morir

as    New Mexico Gov. Lem Carter

1967
Doce del patíbulo

as    Col. Everett Dasher Breed

1967
La hora de las pistolas

as    Ike Clanton

1967
1966
Los profesionales

as    Hans Ehrengard

1965
The Dirty Game

as    General Bruce

1965
La batalla de las Ardenas

as    General Grey

1965
The Crooked Road

as    Richard Ashley

1962
La fragata infernal

as    John Claggart, Master of Arms

1960
Imperio de titanes

as    Thor Storm

1959
El día de los forajidos

as    Blaise Starrett

1959
Apuestas contra el mañana

as    Earle Slater

1958
The Great Gatsby

as    Jay Gatsby

1958
La colina de los diablos de acero

as    Lt. Benson

1958
La pequeña tierra de Dios

as    Ty Ty Walden

1956
Regreso de la eternidad

as    Bill Lonagan

1956
Tierra de violencia

as    Marshal Cass Silver

1955
Huida a Birmania

as    Jim Brecan

1955
Los implacables

as    Nathan Stark

1955
Conspiración de silencio

as    Reno Smith

1955
La casa de bambú

as    Sandy Dawson

1954
About Mrs. Leslie

as    George Leslie

1954
En los mares de Alaska

as    Matt Kelly