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Robert Ryan
American actor (1909–1973)
For other people named Robert Ryan, see Robert Ryan (disambiguation).
Robert Ryan | |
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Ryan in The Naked Spur (1953) | |
| Born | Robert Bushnell Ryan (1909-11-11)November 11, 1909 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | July 11, 1973(1973-07-11) (aged 63) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1940–1973 |
| Spouse | Jessica Cadwalader (m. 1939; died 1972) |
| Children | 3 |
Robert Bushnell Ryan (November 11, 1909 – July 11, 1973) was an American actor and activist. Known for his portrayals of hardened cops and ruthless villains, Ryan performed for over three decades. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film noir drama Crossfire (1947).
Early life
Ryan was born in Chicago, the first child of Mabel Arbutus (née Bushnell), a secretary, and Timothy Aloysius Ryan, who was from a wealthy family who owned a real estate firm.[1] He was of Irish (his paternal grandparents were from Thurles) a
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The True Story of Robert Ryan:Underrated Hollywood Pro
For someone who is not remembered today as a star, Robert Ryan did an awful lot of first-rate films. And always his presence helped make them that way. He was, quite simply, a superb screen actor.
A Chicago native, born into a well-connected Irish Catholic family in 1909, Bob would end up graduating from Dartmouth. Tall at 6’4”, he was a champion boxer there. Graduating in the pit of the Depression, he worked a variety of temporary jobs, but soon fell in love with the theater, studying under Max Reinhardt. Though he’d originally set his sights on writing plays, Bob — and others, including Reinhardt himself — soon realized he had a particular gift for performing.
By the early ‘40s, like so many other young professionals who had to eat, Ryan found himself in Hollywood doing small parts and making contacts. The roles kept coming, and by the end of the war, he was getting featured parts.
Though in real life he was an extremely thoughtful and sensitive man, it soon became clear that the da
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The Lives of Robert Ryan
"[A]n engaging biography of a Golden Age movie star who was a welcome presence even if — and perhaps particularly when — he lit up the screen with a sneer and filled it with menace. His many lives — stage and television performer, political activist, progressive education proponent, husband and father — are finely detailed by Jones with the help of Ryan's private writings and those of his wife, Jessica, a novelist. Jones describes a complex man who grappled publicly with the world's demons and privately with his own, among them alcohol and depression."
~Douglass K. Daniel, Associated Press
""Ryan was born in Chicago, so it's fitting that a Chicago critic would be behind the new biography The Lives of Robert Ryan. Written by the Chicago Reader's J.R. Jones, the book provides the first extensive look at Ryan's life, from his life as a child of a Chicago contractor with strong political ties to his work as a liberal activist at the height of the blacklist, and beyond.""
~Keith Phipps, The Dissolve
""Elegantly and with sparing opinionating, Chica
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