Acting
Tim Ryan
Also Known As: Timothy Thomas Ryan
Birth Date
July 4, 1899
Death Date
October 22, 1956
(passed away at 57)
Place of Birth
Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
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Biography
Tim Ryan was an American performer who is probably best known today as a film actor. Ryan and his wife, Irene who later played Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies, were a show business team that performed on Broadway, film and radio. They made some short films for Educational Pictures in the mid-1930s based on their vaudeville act. They were married from 1922 to 1942. Even after their divorce in 1942, the couple occasionally worked together. In the 1940s, Ryan found opportunities at Monogram Pictures where he acted in films as well as wrote screenplays. In films of the 1940s and the early 1950s, Ryan appeared on screen playing numerous roles as cops, newspaper editors and detectives.
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The Abbott and Costello Show
Police Lt. Smith
1952 • 1 episode
The Life Of Riley
Fire Chief
1953 • 1 episode
From Here to Eternity
Sgt. Pete Karelsen
1953
Further Adventures of Spin and Marty
Chauffeur Jason
1956 • 1 episode
The Asphalt Jungle
Jack - Police Clerk (uncredited)
1950
This Gun for Hire
Weems, Guard (uncredited)
1942
Ball of Fire
Motor Policeman
1941
Detour
Diner Owner Gus
1945
Red, Hot and Blue
Stranger (uncredited)
1949
Body and Soul
Jack Shelton (uncredited)
1947
I Wake Up Screaming
Detective (uncredited)
1941
Force of Evil
Johnson
1950
The Buster Keaton Story
Studio Policeman (uncredited)
1957
Third Finger, Left Hand
Third Mate on Ship
1940
And the Angels Sing
Stage-Door Man (uncredited)
1944
Champion
Al (Kansas City Manager) (uncredited)
1949
Alias Nick Beal
1949
The Luck of the Irish
Policeman (uncredited)
1948
Three Girls About Town
Singing Drunk
1941
Two Sisters from Boston
Mr. Dibson (uncredited)
1946