Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1899-07-04
Day of Death
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 as cops, newspaper editors and detectives.
Filmography (104)
The Buster Keaton Story
1957
The Cruel Tower
1956
Fighting Trouble
1956
Private Eyes
1953
From Here to Eternity
1953
The Marksman
1953
Fargo
1952
Here Come the Marines
1952
All That I Have
1951
Crazy Over Horses
1951
Force of Evil
1950
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
1950
The Asphalt Jungle
1950
Jiggs and Maggie Out West
1950
