Tim Ryan

    Tim Ryan

    July 4, 1899 (125 years old) in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

    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.

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    The Life Of RileyThe Life Of Riley
    DetourDetour
    From Here to EternityFrom Here to Eternity
    ChampionChampion
    The Asphalt JungleThe Asphalt Jungle

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