Actor

Tim Ryan

Acting

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Acting credits

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Very extensive acting filmography.

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Movies: 110Series: 3Crew credits: 27

TMDB ID: 85996

IMDb ID: nm0752878

Known for: Acting

Born: July 4, 1899

Died: October 22, 1956

Age: 57

Place of birth: Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1937 - 1957

Years active: 21

Average TMDB rating: 6.55

Wikidata: Q7804213

Also known as

Timothy Thomas Ryan

Other jobs

Screenplay (20)Writer (3)Story (2)Additional Dialogue (1)Dialogue (1)

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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.