Tim Ryan

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-07-04 (57 years old)

Deathday

1956-10-22

Place of Birth

Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

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 a...

Acting

1945

Detour

as Diner Owner Gus

1953

From Here to Eternity

as Sgt. Pete Karelsen

1941

Two Latins from Manhattan

as Police Sergeant

1941

Melody Lane

as Police Sergeant

1946

Dark Alibi

as Foggy

1941

1948

The Shanghai Chest

as Lt. Mike Ruark

1948

The Golden Eye

as Vincent O'Brien / Lt. Mike Ruark

1942

Pardon My Stripes

as Speed Wilson (uncredited)

1945

Fashion Model

as O'Hara

1944

Detective Kitty O'Day

as Inspector Clancy

1942

A Tragedy at Midnight

as Police Commissioner (uncredited)

1946

Wife Wanted

as Bartender

1942

Butch Minds the Baby

as Mike (uncredited)

1943

1945

Adventures of Kitty O'Day

as Inspector Clancy

1944

Shadow of Suspicion

as Everett G. Northrup

1943

Melody Parade

as Happy Harrington

1957

The Buster Keaton Story

as Studio Policeman

1952

Here Come the Marines

as Sheriff Benson

1942

The Courtship of Andy Hardy

as Farrell (uncredited)

1944

And the Angels Sing

as Stage-Door Man (uncredited)

1943

Sarong Girl

as Tim Raynor

1949

1941

Lucky Devils

as Momser

1943

Reveille with Beverly

as Mr. Kennedy (uncredited)

1944

Hot Rhythm

as Mr. O'Hara (as Tim)

1941

Pot o' Gold

as 'Snooky' - Spieler (uncredited)

1950

The Asphalt Jungle

as Jack (Police Clerk) (uncredited)

1951

1949

Champion

as Al (Kansas City Manager) (uncredited)

1950

Force of Evil

as Johnson

1942

Nazi Agent

as Officer (uncredited)

1944

Kansas City Kitty

as Dave Clark

1935

1945

Swingin' on a Rainbow

as Hustun Greer

1942

1937

His Pest Girl

as Tim Ryan

1937

1947

Merton of the Movies

as Mammoth Studio's Night guard (uncredited)

1941

Ball of Fire

as Motor Policeman

1943

Swing Out the Blues

as Judge Dudley Gordon

1940

Brother Orchid

as Turkey Malone

1942

This Gun for Hire

as Weems, Guard (uncredited)

1944

Hi, Beautiful

as Babcock

1944

1944

Crazy Knights

as Grogan

1945

1942

Don't Get Personal

as Traffic Cop

1940

Hullabaloo

as Skee Golf Concessionaire

1940

Third Finger, Left Hand

as Third Mate on Ship

1949

Red, Hot and Blue

as Stranger (uncredited)

1953

1956

Fighting Trouble

as Ray Vance

1947

News Hounds

as John 'Bullfrog' Burke

1949

Sky Dragon

as Lt. Mike Ruark

1943

Redhead from Manhattan

as Mike Glendon

1942

Blondie Goes to College

as Mr. Higby, Football Coach

1950

1952

Fargo

as Sam

1941

Three Girls About Town

as Singing Drunk

1953

The Marksman

as Stage Driver

1941

Devil Pays Off

as First Mate

1941

Dead Men Tell

as Bartender

1946

Bringing Up Father

as Dinty Moore

1942

Get Hep to Love

as Detective Tucker

1942

1941

Harmon of Michigan

as Flash Regan

1941

I Wake Up Screaming

as Detective (uncredited)

1949

1951

All That I Have

as Ben Renson

1942

Stand by for Action

as Lt. Tim Ryan

1942

Stand By All Networks

as Police Inspector Ryan

1949

Miss Mink of 1949

as Police Sgt. Clancy

1947

Body and Soul

as Jack Shelton (uncredited)

1942

This Time for Keeps

as Professor Diz

1941

Where Did You Get That Girl?

as Police Inspector

1943

True to Life

as Mr. Mammal (uncredited)

1941

Ice-Capades

as Jackson

1937

Will You Stop?

as Tim / Mark Antony

1948

Half Past Midnight

as Amos, Bartender

1940

1947

1940

Private Affairs

as Bartender Harry

1943

Riding High

as Jones

1946

Two Sisters from Boston

as Mr. Dibson (uncredited)

1941

A Man Betrayed

as Mr. Wilson

1948

The Luck of the Irish

as Policeman (uncredited)

1942

Strictly in the Groove

as Professor Blake

1941

Maisie Was a Lady

as Second Carnival Barker (Uncredited)

1948

1947

High Barbaree

as Ringmaster (uncredited)

Production

1948

Jinx Money

as Screenplay

1944

1946

Spook Busters

as Screenplay

1946

Bowery Bombshell

as Dialogue

1947

Bowery Buckaroos

as Screenplay

1952

Hold That Line

as Screenplay

1953

Jalopy

as Screenplay

1945

1952

Feudin' Fools

as Screenplay

1946

In Fast Company

as Screenplay

1944

1944

Hot Rhythm

as Screenplay

1951

Crazy Over Horses

as Screenplay

1952

1948

Angels' Alley

as Screenplay

1943

1948

Smuggler's Cove

as Screenplay

1948

Trouble Makers

as Screenplay

1943

Melody Parade

as Screenplay

1936

Just Plain Folks

as Dialogue

1936

The Wacky Family

as Dialogue

1944

1945

There Goes Kelly

as Additional Dialogue

1945

G.I. Honeymoon

as Additional Dialogue

1946

Live Wires

as Screenplay

1947

News Hounds

as Screenplay

1937

1937

1936

1937

1945

Fashion Model

as Screenplay

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