Tim Ryan
- Acting
- July 4, 1899 · Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
- October 22, 1956
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Buster Keaton Story · Studio Policeman (uncredited)
- Further Adventures of Spin and Marty · Chauffeur Jason
- The Cruel Tower
- Fighting Trouble · Ray Vance
- Private Eyes · Andy
- From Here to Eternity · Sgt. Pete Karelsen
- The Marksman · Stage Driver
- Jalopy · Screenplay
- The Life Of Riley · Fire Chief
- The Abbott and Costello Show · Police Lt. Smith
- No Holds Barred · Writer
- Feudin' Fools · Screenplay
- Fargo · Sam
- Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla · Writer
- Here Come the Marines · Sheriff Benson, Writer
- Hold That Line · Screenplay
- All That I Have · Ben Renson
- Crazy Over Horses · Flynn, Screenplay
- Force of Evil · Johnson
- Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance · Bentley
- The Asphalt Jungle · Jack - Police Clerk (uncredited)
- Jiggs and Maggie Out West · Dinty Moore
- French Fried Frolic · Tim
- Wha' Happen? · Tim, Vera's husband
- Red, Hot and Blue · Stranger (uncredited)
- Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters · Dinty Moore
- Forgotten Women · Harry
- Sky Dragon · Lt. Mike Ruark
- Champion · Al (Kansas City Manager) (uncredited)
- Alias Nick Beal
- Miss Mink of 1949 · Police Sgt. Clancy
- Shamrock Hill · Uncle
- Jiggs and Maggie in Court · Dinty Moore
- Trouble Makers · Screenplay
- Smuggler's Cove · Screenplay
- The Luck of the Irish · Policeman (uncredited)
- The Golden Eye · Vincent O'Brien / Lt. Mike Ruark
- The Shanghai Chest · Lt. Mike Ruark
- Jinx Money · Screenplay
- Angels' Alley · Screenplay
- Half Past Midnight · Amos, Bartender
- Jiggs and Maggie in Society · Dinty Moore
- Bowery Buckaroos · Screenplay
- Body and Soul · Jack Shelton (uncredited)
- Merton of the Movies · Mammoth Studio's Night guard (uncredited)
- News Hounds · John 'Bullfrog' Burke, Screenplay
- High Barbaree · Ringmaster (uncredited)
- Blondie's Holiday · Mike
- Bringing Up Father · Dinty Moore
- Wife Wanted · Bartender
- Spook Busters · Screenplay
- Bowery Bombshell · Dialogue
- In Fast Company · Screenplay
- Two Sisters from Boston · Mr. Dibson (uncredited)
- Dark Alibi · Foggy
- Live Wires · Screenplay
- Detour · Diner Owner Gus
- Swingin' on a Rainbow · Hustun Greer
- Rockin' in the Rockies · Tom Trove
- G.I. Honeymoon · Additional Dialogue
- Fashion Model · O'Hara, Screenplay
- There Goes Kelly · Additional Dialogue
- Adventures of Kitty O'Day · Inspector Clancy, Screenplay
- Hi, Beautiful · Babcock
- Crazy Knights · Grogan, Story
- Shadow of Suspicion · Everett G. Northrup
- Leave It to the Irish · Screenplay
- Kansas City Kitty · Dave Clark
- Detective Kitty O'Day · Inspector Clancy, Screenplay
- And the Angels Sing · Stage-Door Man (uncredited)
- Hot Rhythm · Mr. O'Hara (as Tim), Screenplay
- Swingtime Johnny · Sparks
- True to Life · Mr. Mammal (uncredited)
- Swing Out the Blues · Judge Dudley Gordon
- The Sultan's Daughter · Tim, Screenplay
- Riding High · Jones
- The Mystery of the 13th Guest · Lieutenant Burke, Screenplay
- Melody Parade · Happy Harrington, Screenplay
- Sarong Girl · Tim Raynor
- Redhead from Manhattan · Mike Glendon