Robert Ryan
Nazione: United States
Genere: M
Compleanno: 1909-11-11
Morto: 1973-07-11
Biografia
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.
Attore:
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1. Giubbe rosse (1940), film...Constable Dumont
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2. Eravamo tanto felici (1943), film...Chris Jones
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3. Non ti posso dimenticare (1943), film...Reginald Fenton
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4. Behind The Rising Sun (1943), film...Lefty O'Doyle
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5. 19° stormo bombardieri (1943), film...Joe Connors
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6. Il maggiore di ferro (1943), film...Father Timothy 'Tim' Donovan
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7. L'azione continua (1944), film...Capt. Dan Craig
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8. Frontiere selvagge (1947), film...Allen
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9. Odio implacabile (1947), film...Montgomery
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10. La donna della spiaggia (1947), film...Scott
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11. Gli avvoltoi (1948), film...Sundance Kid
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12. Il treno ferma a Berlino (1948), film...Robert Lindley
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13. Il ragazzo dai capelli verdi (1948), film...Dr. Evans
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14. Stasera ho vinto anch'io (1949), film...Stoker
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15. Lo schiavo della violenza (1949), film...Brad Collins
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16. Nella morsa (1949), film...Smith Ohlrig
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17. La seduttrice (1950), film...Nick
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18. Il magnifico fuorilegge (1951), film...Jeff Clanton
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19. I diavoli alati (1951), film...Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin
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20. Neve rossa (1951), film...Jim Wilson
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21. La gang (1951), film...Nick Scanlon
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...Earl Pfeiffer
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23. Dan il terribile (1952), film...Dan Hammond
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24. La jena di Oakland (1952), film...Howard Wilton
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25. Lo sperone nudo (1953), film...Ben Vandergroat
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26. Inferno (1953), film...Donald Whitley Carson III
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27. La città sommersa (1953), film...Brad Carlton
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28. Gli implacabili (1955), film...Nathan Stark
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29. Giorno maledetto (1955), film...Reno Smith
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30. L'avventuriero di Burma (1955), film...Jim Brecan
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31. House of Bamboo (1955), film...Sandy Dawson
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32. La grande sfida (1956), film...Marshal Cass Silver
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33. I racconti del West (1956), serie...Captain William Kraig
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34. Uomini in guerra (1957), film...Lt. Benson
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35. Turn of Fate (1957), serie...Jeff Banner
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36. Non desiderare la donna d'altri (1958), film...William Shrike
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37. Il piccolo campo (1958), film...Ty Ty Walden
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38. La notte senza legge (1959), film...Blaise Starrett
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39. Strategia di una rapina (1959), film...Earle Slater
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40. Il re dei re (1961), film...John The Baptist
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41. I canadesi (1961), film...Inspector William Gannon
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42. Billy Budd (1962), film...John Claggart - Master of Arms
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43. Il giorno più lungo (1962), film...Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
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44. La battaglia dei giganti (1965), film...Gen. Grey
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45. La guerra segreta (1965), film...General Bruce
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46. I professionisti (1966), film...Ehrengard
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47. Quella sporca dozzina (1967), film...Col. Everett Dasher Breed
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48. L'ora delle pistole (1967), film...Ike Clanton
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49. Custer eroe del West (1967), film...'Mulligan'
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...New Mexico Gov. Lem Carter
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51. Lo sbarco di Anzio (1968), film...General Carson
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52. Il mucchio selvaggio (1969), film...Thornton
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...Captain Nemo
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54. Io sono la legge (1971), film...Sabbath Cotton Ryan
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56. Azione esecutiva (1973), film...Robert Foster
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57. The Iceman Cometh (1973), film...Larry Slade
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58. The Outfit (1973), film...Mailer
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...Self (archive footage)
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...Self (archive footage)