Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan (born November 11, 1909 in Chicago , Illinois as Robert Bushnell Ryan , † July 11, 1973 in New York City ) was an American actor .
Life
Ryan celebrated his first successes at Dartmouth College as the best in his school in boxing . After graduating in 1932, he worked in various odd jobs: as a stoker on a ship, as a laborer and on a ranch in Montana . In show business , Ryan initially tried to gain a foothold as a playwright, but was forced to appear as an actor in his own plays. He took acting lessons in the late 1930s and received his first small film roles in the 1940s. During World War II he served in the US Marine Corps .
After retiring from the Marine Corps, the more than 1.90 meter tall man began his most productive and successful time as an actor. In 1947, the film Im Kreuzfeuer was directed by Edward Dmytryk . For his portrayal of the murderer Montgomery, Ryan was nominated for an Oscar in 1948 for Best Supporting Actor. His last appearance was in the Eugene-O'Neill film adaptation of The Ice Man Comes with Lee Marvin in the lead role, directed by John Frankenheimer .
In 1939 he married Jessica Cadwalader, with whom he was married until his death. They had two sons and a daughter together. Ryan died of lung cancer on July 11, 1973 at the age of 63 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1940: The Scarlet Horsemen (North West Mounted Police)
- 1940: Golden Gloves
- 1943: Regardless of losses (Bombardier)
- 1943: Tender Comrade
- 1943: The Sky's the Limit
- 1944: Leather Neck (Marine Raiders)
- 1947: The woman at the beach (The Woman on the Beach)
- 1947: In the Crossfire (Crossfire)
- 1947: A goddess on earth (Down to Earth)
- 1948: Berlin Express
- 1948: The Boy With Green Hair
- 1948: act of violence (Act of Violence)
- 1949. Trapped (Caught)
- 1949: Clear the ring for Stoker Thompson (The Set-Up)
- 1949: The Woman on Pier 13
- 1950: The Secret Fury
- 1950: Born to be Bad
- 1951: Steel wings (Flying Leathernecks)
- 1951: The Syndicate; also: Gangster (The Racket)
- 1952: On Dangerous Ground
- 1952: Curse of the Lost (Horizons West)
- 1952: Before the New Day (Clash by Night)
- 1952: Beware My Lovely
- 1953: Fateful Traces (Inferno)
- 1953: The City Under the Sea (City Beneath the Sea)
- 1953: Naked Violence (The Naked track)
- 1954: Her Twelve Men (Her Twelve Men)
- 1955: Stadt in Angst (Bad Day at Black Rock)
- 1955: Tokio-Story (House of Bamboo)
- 1955: Three Rivals (The Tall Men)
- 1955: Escape to Burma
- 1956: Back from Eternity
- 1956: The Proud Ones
- 1957: Day without End (Men in War)
- 1958: God's Little Acre
- 1958: Life is a Lie (Lonelyhearts)
- 1959: Odds Against Tomorrow (Odds Against Tomorrow)
- 1959: Titans (Ice Palace)
- 1959: Day of the wicked (Day of the Outlaw)
- 1960: The Red Squadron (The Canadians)
- 1961: King of Kings (King of Kings)
- 1962: The Longest Day (The Longest Day)
- 1962: The Damned of the Seas (Billy Budd)
- 1965: Spies among themselves (The Dirty Game)
- 1965: The Final Battle (Battle of the Bulge)
- 1965: One time is billed (The Crooked Road)
- 1966: The Feared Four (The Professionals)
- 1967: A Day to Fight (Custer of the West)
- 1967: The Dirty Dozen (The Dirty Dozen)
- 1967: The Five Outlaws (Hour of the Gun)
- 1967: More dead than alive (Un minuto per pregare, un istante per morire)
- 1968: Battle of Anzio (Anzio)
- 1969: The Wild Bunch (The Wild Bunch)
- 1969: Kapitän Nemo (Captain Nemo and the Underwater City)
- 1971: Lawman
- 1972: Driven hunt (La course du lièvre à travers les champs)
- 1972: Lolly Madonna XXX
- 1973: The Man Without a Country
- 1973: State authority (Executive Action)
- 1973: The Iceman Cometh
- 1973: Revolt in the Underworld (The Outfit)
Awards
- 1948: Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Im Kreuzfeuer
- 1963: Nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Best Actor for The Damned of the Seas
- 1970: Golden Laurel nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Wild Bunch - They knew no law
- 1973: National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for The Iceman Cometh (awarded posthumously)
- 1974: Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Iceman Cometh (awarded posthumously)
- 1974: Special Award for Best Supporting Actor at the National Society of Film Critics Awards (awarded posthumously)
literature
- Gregor Hauser, Peter L. Stadlbaur: Prairie bandits: The gripping world of B-Westerns . Verlag Reinhard Marheinecke 2018, ISBN 978-3-932053-98-6 . Pp. 164-166.
Web links
- Robert Ryan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Manohla Dargis: Robert Ryan's Quiet Furies . The New York Times, August 5, 2011
- Film Noir Icon Robert Ryan in: Chicagoreader
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical data by Robert Ryan in: Current Biography Yearbook: 1964 - Volume 24 , by HW Wilson Company, 1964, p. 365
- ↑ Oscar nomination for Robert Ryan in the category "Best Supporting Actor" at the award ceremony in 1948 for Im Kreuzfeuer
- ↑ Awards for Robert Ryan at IMDB
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ryan, Robert |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ryan, Robert Bushnell |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1909 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , United States |
DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1973 |
Place of death | New York City , United States |