Tim Ryan
Acting
🎂 1899-07-04
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.
Cast credits(104)
Fire Chief
1953
Police Lt. Smith
1952
Chauffeur Jason
1956
Jack Shelton (uncredited)
1947
Sgt. Pete Karelsen
1953
Motor Policeman
1941
Jack (Police Clerk) (uncredited)
1950
Diner Owner Gus
1945
Third Mate on Ship
1940
'Snooky' - Spieler (uncredited)
1941
Weems, Guard (uncredited)
1942
1949
Detective (uncredited)
1941
Al (Kansas City Manager) (uncredited)
1949
Turkey Malone
1940
Officer (uncredited)
1942
Johnson
1950
Policeman (uncredited)
1948
Singing Drunk
1941
Second Carnival Barker (Uncredited)
1941
Police Sgt. Clancy
1949
Bartender
1941
Inspector Clancy
1944
Studio Policeman
1957
Mr. Wilson
1941
Mr. Mammal (uncredited)
1943
Mr. Dibson (uncredited)
1946
Jones
1943
Lt. Mike Ruark
1949
Bartender
1946
Stage-Door Man (uncredited)
1944
Lt. Tim Ryan
1942
Vincent O'Brien / Lt. Mike Ruark
1948
Lt. Mike Ruark
1948
Foggy
1946
Ray Vance
1956
Barney - Cop
1942
Police Inspector
1941
Mr. Higby, Football Coach
1942
Dinty Moore
1948
1956
Mr. Kennedy (uncredited)
1943
Mike
1947
Sam
1952
Police Lt. Burke
1943
Andy
1953
Detective Tucker
1942
Ringmaster (uncredited)
1947
Farrell (uncredited)
1942
Ben Renson
1951
Tom Trove
1945
Everett G. Northrup
1944
Babcock
1944
Stranger (uncredited)
1949
Skee Golf Concessionaire
1940
Happy Harrington
1943
First Mate
1941
Inspector Clancy
1945
Dave Clark
1944
Sheriff Benson
1952
Mac
1941
Stage Driver
1953
Mike (uncredited)
1942
Traffic Cop
1942
Bartender Harry
1940
Police Sergeant
1941
Jackson
1941
Hustun Greer
1945
Amos, Bartender
1948
Momser
1941
Dinty Moore
1947
Dinty Moore
1950
Police Commissioner (uncredited)
1942
Professor Diz
1942
Judge Dudley Gordon
1943
O'Hara
1945
Flynn
1951
Mammoth Studio's Night guard (uncredited)
1947
Grogan
1944
Harry
1949
Professor Blake
1942
Bentley
1950
Tim Raynor
1943
John 'Bullfrog' Burke
1947
Mike Glendon
1943
Flash Regan
1941
Sparks
1944
Police Sergeant
1941
Tim
1943
Mr. O'Hara (as Tim)
1944
Auctioneer
1942
Police Inspector Ryan
1942
Uncle
1949
Speed Wilson (uncredited)
1942
Tim
1936
Dinty Moore
1946
Judge Saunders
1940
Tim / Mark Antony
1937
1936
Tim Ryan
1935
Tim
1949
1936
Tim Ryan
1937
Tim Ryan
1937
Writing (33)
Screenplay
1944
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1948
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1952
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1947
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1946
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1943
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1948
Writer
1952
Screenplay
1946
Screenplay
1953
Screenplay
1943
Screenplay
1945
Dialogue
1946
Writer
1952
Screenplay
1948
Screenplay
1945
Screenplay
1951
Story
1944
Screenplay
1944
Screenplay
1947
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1948
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1952
Screenplay
1943
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1944
Writer
1952
Screenplay
1946
Writer
1936
Story
1937
Dialogue
1936
Writer
1935
Dialogue
1936
Story
1937
Story
1937
