Robert Ryan

Robert Ryan

November 11, 1909 · 116 years old

Robert Bushnell Ryan (November 11, 1909 – July 11, 1973) was an American  actor who often played hardened cops and ruthless villains. Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, the first child of Timothy Ryan and his wife Mabel Bushnell Ryan.  He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932, having held the s…

Known For

32 titles
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The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch

1969 · 2h 15m · Movie

An aging group of outlaws in 1913 Texas look for one last big score, selling stolen Army rifles to a rogue Mexican general during that country's revolution, as the traditional American West is disappearing around them.

7.9
2
The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen

1967 · 2h 30m · Movie

During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

7.7
3
The Longest Day

The Longest Day

1962 · 2h 58m · Movie

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

7.7
4
Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock

1955 · 1h 21m · Movie

Following World War II, a one-armed stranger arrives in a tiny California desert town, but finds the residents hostile and protecting a terrible secret they want to keep hidden, by violent means if necessary.

7.7
5
The Professionals

The Professionals

1966 · 1h 57m · Movie

An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

7.3
6
Battle of the Bulge

Battle of the Bulge

1965 · 2h 47m · Movie

A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.

6.8
7
Crossfire

Crossfire

1947 · 1h 26m · Movie

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?

7.2
8
King of Kings

King of Kings

1961 · 2h 48m · Movie

The life and times of Jesus against a background of Roman paganism. Set in Palestine, depicts the Jews under Roman rule and their struggle for freedom under the leadership of Barabbas, the man who was spared while Jesus was crucif...

7.0
9
On Dangerous Ground

On Dangerous Ground

1951 · 1h 22m · Movie

Rough, violent city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain who sends him upstate to a snowy mountain town to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.

7.2
10
Clash by Night

Clash by Night

1952 · 1h 45m · Movie

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

7.0
11
The Outfit

The Outfit

1973 · 1h 43m · Movie

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

7.0
12
Hour of the Gun

Hour of the Gun

1967 · 1h 40m · Movie

Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton gang in a fight. In revenge, Clanton's thugs kill the Marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.

6.6
13
Billy Budd

Billy Budd

1962 · 2h 3m · Movie

When a kind-hearted sailor is made to join an English vessel at war in 1797, he finds himself caught between devotion to his crewmates and obedience to their hated, cruel master-at-arms.

7.8
14
Caught

Caught

1949 · 1h 28m · Movie

An ambitious young LA department store model gets her wish of marrying a millionaire but she eventually discovers that rich life isn't always a happy one.

7.0
15
House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo

1955 · 1h 42m · Movie

Planted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.S. Army Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.

6.8
16
Anzio

Anzio

1968 · 1h 57m · Movie

A war correspondent witnesses errors of the Allied Command after he and a unit of US Army Rangers land unopposed at Anzio, Italy, but later become trapped behind German lines during one of the bloodiest battles of WWII.

6.0
17
The Tall Men

The Tall Men

1955 · 2h 2m · Movie

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

6.7
18
The Racket

The Racket

1951 · 1h 28m · Movie

In New York, two honest cops try to hinder a crime syndicate from moving into the precinct and also to prevent the mob's plan of electing a corrupt prosecutor to a judgeship.

6.7
19
Executive Action

Executive Action

1973 · 1h 31m · Movie

Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination.

6.7
20
The Boy with Green Hair

The Boy with Green Hair

1948 · 1h 22m · Movie

This parable looks at public reaction when the hair of an American war orphan mysteriously turns green.

6.7
21
Men in War

Men in War

1957 · 1h 42m · Movie

During the Korean War, a battle-worn lieutenant and his platoon are behind enemy lines, and have orders to march to Hill 465 for possible relief.

7.1
22
The Woman on the Beach

The Woman on the Beach

1947 · 1h 11m · Movie

A Coast Guardsman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.

6.4
23
Beware, My Lovely

Beware, My Lovely

1952 · 1h 17m · Movie

A mentally disturbed handyman on the run, for reasons even he doesn't understand, takes a job at the house of a lonely war widow in 1918.

6.6
24
God's Little Acre

God's Little Acre

1958 · 1h 58m · Movie

In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their great-grandfather, but problems related to poverty, infidelity, unemployment, and booze threaten to destroy their f...

6.5
25
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City

1969 · 1h 45m · Movie

When Captain Nemo saves the passengers of a sinking ship and takes them to his Utopian underwater city he discovers that not all of his guests agree to remain there forever.

5.7
26
Lonelyhearts

Lonelyhearts

1959 · 1h 40m · Movie

Eager for a job, journalist Adam White accepts the lowly position of columnist for the advice-giving section of the Chronicle but he often clashes with his cynical editor, Shrike.

6.6
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Horizons West

Horizons West

1952 · 1h 21m · Movie

Two brothers end up on opposite sides of the law in post-Civil War Texas.

6.3
28
Bombardier

Bombardier

1943 · 1h 39m · Movie

Major "Chick" Davis is convinced that high-level bombing will win the next war. He convinces the powers-that-be to set up a bombardier school. He efficiently sets about training the USAAF's first generation of high-level bombardiers.

6.0
29
...And Hope to Die

...And Hope to Die

1972 · 1h 39m · Movie

A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.

6.7
30
Lolly-Madonna XXX

Lolly-Madonna XXX

1973 · 1h 43m · Movie

In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans, the Feathers and the Gutshalls.

6.4
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City Beneath the Sea

City Beneath the Sea

1953 · 1h 27m · Movie

Two American divers are distracted by fair ladies and skulduggery while trying to salvage a gold ship off Jamaica.

5.4
32
Alaska Seas

Alaska Seas

1954 · 1h 18m · Movie

The owner of a salmon cannery in Alaska hires a man who had formerly been his partner, and comes to regret it.

6.1