Tim Ryan
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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Movies (47)
The Buster Keaton Story
as Studio Policeman
1957
The Cruel Tower
1956
Fighting Trouble
as Ray Vance
1956
Private Eyes
as Andy
1953
From Here to Eternity
as Sgt. Pete Karelsen
1953
The Marksman
as Stage Driver
1953
Jalopy
Screenplay (Writing)
1953
No Holds Barred
Writer (Writing)
1952
Feudin' Fools
Screenplay (Writing)
1952
Fargo
as Sam
1952
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Writer (Writing)
1952
Here Come the Marines
as Sheriff Benson
1952
Hold That Line
Screenplay (Writing)
1952
All That I Have
as Ben Renson
1951
Crazy Over Horses
as Flynn
1951
Force of Evil
as Johnson
1950
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
as Bentley
1950
The Asphalt Jungle
as Jack (Police Clerk) (uncredited)
1950
Jiggs and Maggie Out West
as Dinty Moore
1950
French Fried Frolic
as Tim
1949
Red, Hot and Blue
as Stranger (uncredited)
1949
Forgotten Women
as Harry
1949
Sky Dragon
as Lt. Mike Ruark
1949
Champion
as Al (Kansas City Manager) (uncredited)
1949
Alias Nick Beal
1949
Miss Mink of 1949
as Police Sgt. Clancy
1949
Shamrock Hill
as Uncle
1949
Jiggs and Maggie in Court
as Dinty Moore
1948
Trouble Makers
Screenplay (Writing)
1948
Smuggler's Cove
Screenplay (Writing)
1948
The Luck of the Irish
as Policeman (uncredited)
1948
The Golden Eye
as Vincent O'Brien / Lt. Mike Ruark
1948
The Shanghai Chest
as Lt. Mike Ruark
1948
Jinx Money
Screenplay (Writing)
1948
Angels' Alley
Screenplay (Writing)
1948
Half Past Midnight
as Amos, Bartender
1948
Jiggs and Maggie in Society
as Dinty Moore
1947
Bowery Buckaroos
Screenplay (Writing)
1947
Body and Soul
as Jack Shelton (uncredited)
1947
Merton of the Movies
as Mammoth Studio's Night guard (uncredited)
1947
News Hounds
as John 'Bullfrog' Burke
1947
High Barbaree
as Ringmaster (uncredited)
1947
Blondie's Holiday
as Mike
1947
Bringing Up Father
as Dinty Moore
1946
Wife Wanted
as Bartender
1946
Spook Busters
Screenplay (Writing)
1946
Bowery Bombshell
Dialogue (Writing)
1946
