Robert Ryan Net Worth
Robert Ryan Net Worth is
$8 Million
Robert Ryan Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Chicago-born, distinguished U.S. actor and longtime civil rights campaigner, Robert Ryan served in the United States Marines as a drill sergeant (winning a boxing championship) and went on to become a key figure in post WWII American Film Noir and western productions. Ryan grabbed critical attention for his dynamic performances as an anti-Semitic ... | Full Name | Rob Ryan |
| Date Of Birth | November 11, 1909 |
| Died | 1973-07-11 |
| Place Of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Height | 6' 4" (1.93 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Soundtrack |
| Education | Stevenson High School, Southwestern Oklahoma State University |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Jessica Cadwalader |
| Parents | Doris Ryan, Buddy Ryan |
| Siblings | Rex Ryan, Jim Ryan |
| Awards | National Board of Review Award for Best Actor, National Society of Film Critics Special Awards, Drama Desk Vernon Rice Award |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor |
| Movies | The Wild Bunch, The Set-Up, Bad Day at Black Rock, On Dangerous Ground, Crossfire, The Naked Spur, Clash by Night, Odds Against Tomorrow, Act of Violence, The Professionals, The Dirty Dozen, Day of the Outlaw, The Iceman Cometh, Men in War, Flying Leathernecks, The Longest Day, God's Little Acre, Ho... |
| TV Shows | Alcoa Theatre, World War One, Monster House |
| Star Sign | Scorpio |
| # | Trademark |
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| 1 | Often played serious, temperamental men of action. |
| 2 | Often played stern authority figures, in sharp contrast to his real life persona. |
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| 1 | [on the 'amazing experience' of old Hollywood] The conformity of the material was a problem, true. But the old system had virtues. [They] would gamble once in a while on an offbeat picture... We all had to go to film school, and we worked in hordes of pictures - B pictures - which were shot very fast. |
| 2 | [on young actors] Each one assumes that his mere presence is God's gift to humanity and he finds out over the years that this isn't the case, but that the acquisition of the skills is equally important. You find out that the essence of it is simplification. |
| 3 | [on being listed as one of the screen's all-time best heavies] I guess they never saw me in most of my pictures. Still, I've never stopped working so I can't complain. |
| 4 | [on why he never became a target of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the Red-baiting HUAC, despite being known for his left-of-center politics] I was involved in the things he was throwing rocks at but I was never a target. Looking back, I suspect my Irish name, my being a Catholic and an ex-Marine sort of softened the blow. |
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| 1 | In June 1941 at the Millpond Playhouse in Roslyn, Long Island he acted in the plays The Barker and Petticoat Fever with his wife Jessica Cadawalder. He also acted in Angel Comedy with Cameron Mitchell before ending his engagement by appearing in William Saroyan's TheTime Of Your Life. |
| 2 | Married his wife Jessica Cadawalader on March 11, 1939 at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in West Hollywood. |
| 3 | In the Summer of 1941 he acted at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts where he appeared in J.M. Barrie's A Kiss For Cinderella opposite Luise Rainer. |
| 4 | At the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego he acted in Petticoat Fever during the Summer of 1949 returning in July 1950 to appear in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday. |
| 5 | Attended the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago where he served as a McCarthy delegate. He was able to wrangle a floor pass for his anti-war activist son Cheyney because of his friendship with Joan Crawford who served on the board of the Pepsi-Cola Company through a company representative who passed on greetings from her. |
| 6 | Attended Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois for high school, class of 1927, where he was an All-City tackle his senior year, playing football for all four years. |
| 7 | Was a freshman at Darmouth when Joseph Losey was a senior. |
| 8 | At Darmouth he pledged Psi Upsilon where one of his fraternity brothers was Nelson Rockefeller. |
| 9 | Was planning on marrying Maureen O'Sulllivan before he passed away. |
| 10 | Was reportedly a candidate for the role of Samson in Samson and Delilah (1949). |
| 11 | His funeral was held on July 16, 1973 at Blessed Sacrament Church on 71st Street in Manhattan. Jason Robards, Myrna Loy, Dore Schary and John McGiver attended the service. |
| 12 | In an interview on Scene by Scene (1996), Jeff Bridges tells an anecdote about Ryan during the filming of The Iceman Cometh (1973). The young Bridges noticed that a pool of sweat had formed under Ryan's hand as it rested on a table, and realized that despite his granite demeanor, the veteran star was nervous that they were about to go for a take. When Bridges asked him about this, he replied, 'I'd really be scared if I wasn't scared'. |
| 13 | Jeff Bridges said he learned a lot about acting from working with Ryan when they appear together in The Iceman Cometh (1973). |
| 14 | New York City, NY, USA: Film Forum screening a series of two dozen Ryan movies. [August 2011] |
| 15 | Near the end of World War II, Ryan met fellow Marine Richard Brooks in the library of Camp Pendleton. Brooks had just had his first novel, 'The Brick Foxhole' published, and Ryan told him he was an actor who was determined to play the role of the villain if a movie version were ever made. Ryan insisted, 'I know that son of a bitch. No one knows him better than I do'. Two years later, outside the theater where Crossfire (1947) had just previewed, actor Ryan--who had indeed played the role of Montgomery which he had once sought--was able to ask writer Brooks, 'What do you think?'. |
| 16 | Helped start Oakwood, a prestigious Los Angeles school. |
| 17 | According to his RKO biography, Ryan worked as a 'sandhog, seaman, sewer builder, salesman, miner, cowboy, bodyguard-chauffeur to a mobster, photographer's model, W.P.A. laborer and paving supervisor'. |
| 18 | Robert's paternal grandparents were Irish immigrants, from Thurles, County Tipperary. Robert's mother was of English and Irish descent, partly by way of Canada, and had deep Colonial American roots. |
| 19 | A close friend of Lee Marvin. |
| 20 | His granddaughter Katharine, by his son, Walker, is a research associate at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. She was named after her godmother, Katharine Hepburn. |
| 21 | Actors Jeff Bridges and Kris Kristofferson have both cited Ryan as their favorite actor. |
| 22 | He has three grandchildren, Tammy, Lisa, and Jeff from his son Cheyney. |
| 23 | When he was eight years old, his younger brother died from the flu. |
| 24 | When he was 26, his father died after being hit by a car. |
| 25 | His son, Cheyney C. Ryan, is a Research Fellow at Oxford University and a professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Oregon. As a Harvard undergraduate, he was expelled due to his fervent activism in the civil rights and anti-war movements. |
| 26 | He was considered for Stephen Boyd's role as Messala in Ben-Hur (1959). |
| 27 | Shortly before his death from lung cancer at the age of sixty-three, Ryan publicly denounced his heavy use of cigarettes as the cause of his illness. |
| 28 | His Shakespearean roles included "Antony and Cleopatra" with Katharine Hepburn in 1960, and the title role of "Othello" at the Nottingham Playhouse in England, also in the '60s. |
| 29 | He was a founder of SANE (an anti-nuclear action group) and a vocal supporter of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten during the 1950s. |
| 30 | Ryan managed to get along with John Wayne while filming Flying Leathernecks (1951), although he was appalled by Wayne's active support for blacklisting in Hollywood. However the two stars did not get along at all while filming The Longest Day (1962). |
| 31 | At Dartmouth College, Ryan was on the boxing team and posted a 5-0 (3 knockouts) record. He also worked on the campus newspaper, and campaigned against Prohibition. |
| 32 | Campaigned for Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 Democratic primaries. |
| 33 | When casting the leading man role in the 1943 Ginger Rogers vehicle Tender Comrade (1943), RKO producer David Hempstead became interested in Ryan due to favorable preview cards hailing Ryan's performances in Bombardier (1943), The Sky's the Limit (1943) and Behind the Rising Sun (1943). He suggested him to Rogers, who was at first unimpressed after screening parts of the three movies. She turned him down as her leading man, as she thought he looked mean and, at 6'4", too big. A week later, when Rogers visited Hempstead at his office, he was busily going through preview cards of "The Sky's the Limit" and showed her some of them. Rogers saw that all the reviews of Ryan's performance were favorable and, since principal production was drawing near, she decided to have another look at him. Ryan was conveniently waiting in a nearby office for just such a possibility. Less than a minute later he came to the office and talked with both the producer and Rogers. After a few moments, she unobtrusively slipped Hempstead a note: "I think this is the guy." Today, the note hangs on the wall above Cheyney Ryan's (Ryan's son) desk in his study. |
| 34 | Served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1944 to 1947. |
| 35 | Was Turner Classic Movies' "Star of the Month" for February 2000, a rare honor for a character lead/supporting player. |
| 36 | Co-founded the Theatre Group at the University of California at Los Angeles with John Houseman and Sidney Harmon in 1959. Nine years later in 1968 he co-founded the Plumstead Playhouse Repertory Company, with Henry Fonda and Martha Scott. |
| 37 | Shortly before his death, Ryan moved out of his apartment (number 72) at the Dakota in New York City. Ryan leased (and then his estate later sold) the apartment to John Lennon and Yoko Ono. |
| 38 | At the time he was diagnosed with cancer, he was scheduled to play "Don Quixote" in a film version of Miguel Cervantes' novel. It was Rex Harrison, however, who was finally seen as the Don in a 1973 made-for-television film of the book, a year after Peter O'Toole had starred in the film version (Man of La Mancha (1972)) of the Broadway musical "Man of La Mancha". |
| 39 | Two sons, Walker (born April 13, 1946) and Cheyney (born March 10, 1948), and a daughter, Lisa (born September 10, 1951). |
| 40 | Due to his towering frame, cruelly-lined face and a simmering intensity uncommon in his generation of "tough guys", he usually played hateful villains. Even on the rare occasions that he played a good guy, they often possessed a violent, obsessive personality that was a tad unsettling. |
| 41 | In 1973, he played the terminally-ill political activist Larry Slade in The Iceman Cometh (1973). Ironically, while filming, he knew he was approaching the final stages of lung cancer and died in July of that year. His wife Jessica had died just the year before, also succumbing to cancer. |
| 42 | While performing in a stock play version of "A Kiss for Cinderella" in 1941 with actress Luise Rainer, Rainer's ex-husband, Clifford Odets, saw him and offered him the featured juvenile part in his Broadway play "Clash by Night" as "Joe Doyle", opposite Tallulah Bankhead. A decade later he starred in the film version but had outgrown the juvenile role and instead played Earl Pfeiffer, one of the leads, originated on Broadway by Joseph Schildkraut. His "Joe Doyle" character was played by Keith Andes in the film Clash by Night (1952). |
| 43 | Initially planned on studying at the Pasadena Playhouse, but instead became a student of Max Reinhardt in the late 1930s, where he met fellow student and future wife Jessica Cadwalader. Following their marriage, she gave up her acting aspirations and later became a children's fiction-book writer. |
| 44 | Originally intended to portray "Commodore Matt Decker" in the Star Trek (1966) (the original series) episode "Doomsday Machine", but was unable to do so. The character was intended as a Captain Ahab-type, obsessed with revenge for the loss of his crew. The role instead went to William Windom who portrayed Decker in a more tragic, sensitive light. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Iceman Cometh | 1973 | Larry Slade | |
| Executive Action | 1973 | Robert Foster | |
| The Outfit | 1973 | Mailer | |
| The Man Without a Country | 1973 | TV Movie | Lt. Cmdr. Vaughan |
| Lolly-Madonna XXX | 1973 | Pap Gutshall | |
| And Hope to Die | 1972 | Charley Ellis | |
| The Love Machine | 1971 | Gregory 'Greg' Austin | |
| Lawman | 1971 | Sabbath Marshal Cotton Ryan Cotten | |
| The Reason Why | 1970 | Short | Roger |
| The Front Page | 1970 | TV Movie | Walter Burns |
| Captain Nemo and the Underwater City | 1969 | Captain Nemo | |
| The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Deke Thornton | |
| Anzio | 1968 | General Carson | |
| Un minuto per pregare, un istante per morire | 1968 | New Mexico Gov. Lem Carter | |
| Custer of the West | 1967 | Sgt. Patrick Mulligan | |
| Hour of the Gun | 1967 | Ike Clanton | |
| The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Col. Everett Dasher Breed | |
| The Busy Body | 1967 | Charley Barker | |
| The Professionals | 1966 | Ehrengard | |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1966 | TV Series | Andrew Dixon |
| Battle of the Bulge | 1965 | Gen. Grey | |
| The Secret Agents | 1965 | General Bruce | |
| The Crooked Road | 1965 | Richard Ashley | |
| The Reporter | 1964 | TV Series | Rush |
| The Presidency: A Splendid Misery | 1964 | TV Movie documentary | Abraham Lincoln |
| Wagon Train | 1962-1964 | TV Series | Bob Stuart / Father John Bernard |
| The Eleventh Hour | 1964 | TV Series | Franklin 'Hoppy' Hopp |
| Breaking Point | 1964 | TV Series | Lloyd Osment |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | 1963 | TV Series | Thomas Bollington |
| Billy Budd | 1962 | John Claggart - Master of Arms | |
| The Longest Day | 1962 | Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin | |
| King of Kings | 1961 | John The Baptist | |
| The Canadians | 1961 | Inspector William Gannon | |
| Buick-Electra Playhouse | 1960 | TV Series | Harry Walters |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro | 1960 | TV Movie | |
| Ice Palace | 1960 | Thor Storm | |
| Odds Against Tomorrow | 1959 | Earle Slater | |
| Zane Grey Theater | 1956-1959 | TV Series | Captain William Kraig / Sheriff Amos Parney / Cob Oakley / ... |
| Day of the Outlaw | 1959 | Blaise Starrett | |
| God's Little Acre | 1958 | Ty Ty Walden | |
| Playhouse 90 | 1958 | TV Series | Jay Gatsby |
| Alcoa Theatre | 1957-1958 | TV Series | Ken Morton / Jeff Banner / Mike Ripetti / ... |
| Goodyear Theatre | 1957-1958 | TV Series | Gunner's Mate Smith / Lieutenant Joe Carter / Dr. Robert Ross / ... |
| Lonelyhearts | 1958 | William Shrike | |
| Mr. Adams and Eve | 1957 | TV Series | |
| Men in War | 1957 | Lt. Benson | |
| Back from Eternity | 1956 | Bill Lonagan | |
| The Proud Ones | 1956 | Marshal Cass Silver | |
| Screen Directors Playhouse | 1955 | TV Series | Abraham Lincoln |
| The Tall Men | 1955 | Nathan Stark | |
| House of Bamboo | 1955 | Sandy Dawson | |
| Escape to Burma | 1955 | Jim Brecan | |
| Bad Day at Black Rock | 1955 | Reno Smith | |
| Her Twelve Men | 1954 | Joe Hargrave | |
| About Mrs. Leslie | 1954 | George Leslie Hendersall | |
| Alaska Seas | 1954 | Matt Kelly | |
| Inferno | 1953 | Donald Whitley Carson III | |
| City Beneath the Sea | 1953 | Brad Carlton | |
| The Naked Spur | 1953 | Ben Vandergroat | |
| Horizons West | 1952 | Dan Hammond | |
| Beware, My Lovely | 1952 | Howard Wilton | |
| Clash by Night | 1952 | Earl Pfeiffer | |
| On Dangerous Ground | 1951 | Jim Wilson | |
| The Racket | 1951 | Nick Scanlon | |
| Flying Leathernecks | 1951 | Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin | |
| Best of the Badmen | 1951 | Jeff Clanton | |
| Hard, Fast and Beautiful | 1951 | Seabright Tennis Match Spectator (uncredited) | |
| Born to Be Bad | 1950 | Nick | |
| The Secret Fury | 1950 | David McLean | |
| The Woman on Pier 13 | 1949 | Brad Collins | |
| The Set-Up | 1949 | Bill 'Stoker' Thompson | |
| Caught | 1949 | Smith Ohlrig | |
| Act of Violence | 1949 | Joe Parkson | |
| The Boy with Green Hair | 1948 | Dr. Evans | |
| Return of the Bad Men | 1948 | Sundance Kid | |
| Berlin Express | 1948 | Robert Lindley | |
| Crossfire | 1947 | Montgomery | |
| The Woman on the Beach | 1947 | Scott | |
| Trail Street | 1947 | Allen | |
| Marine Raiders | 1944 | Capt. Dan Craig | |
| Tender Comrade | 1943 | Chris Jones | |
| Gangway for Tomorrow | 1943 | Joe Dunham | |
| The Iron Major | 1943 | Father Timothy 'Tim' Donovan | |
| Behind the Rising Sun | 1943 | Lefty O'Doyle | |
| The Sky's the Limit | 1943/I | Reginald Fenton | |
| Bombardier | 1943 | Joe Connors | |
| Texas Rangers Ride Again | 1940 | Eddie (uncredited) | |
| North West Mounted Police | 1940 | Constable Dumont | |
| Golden Gloves | 1940 | Pete Wells | |
| Queen of the Mob | 1940 | Jim | |
| The Ghost Breakers | 1940 | Intern (uncredited) |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tender Comrade | 1943 | "You Made Me Love You I Didn't Want to Do It" 1913, uncredited |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Moviemakers | 1973 | Documentary short | Himself |
| November 22, 1963: In Search of an Answer | 1973 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Actor's Choice | 1970 | TV Series | Himself - Performer |
| The Last of the Westerners | 1970 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1967-1970 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Himself |
| Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America | 1969 | TV Movie | Himself - Host |
| The David Frost Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| NET Journal | 1969 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1968 | TV Series | Himself |
| Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Seasons | 1967 | TV Movie | Himself - performer, interviewer |
| The Eamonn Andrews Show | 1966 | TV Series | Himself |
| India: Writings on the Sand | 1965 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| World War One | 1964-1965 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| The City of Ships | 1964 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| The Inheritance | 1964 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| The David Susskind Show | 1964 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Bell Telephone Hour | 1964 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
| A Regular Bouquet: Mississippi Summer | 1964 | Documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| The Jack Paar Program | 1963 | TV Series | Himself |
| What's My Line? | 1958-1962 | TV Series | Himself - Mystery Guest / Himself - Guest Panelist |
| The New Steve Allen Show | 1961 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Here's Hollywood | 1961 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 32nd Annual Academy Awards | 1960 | TV Special | Himself - Audience Member |
| The 30th Annual Academy Awards | 1958 | TV Special | Himself - Co-Presenter: Costume Design Awards |
| Eight Steps to Peace: The Answer Now | 1957 | Documentary | Narrator |
| Eight Steps to Peace: What's in It for Everyone | 1957 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Eight Steps to Peace: You and the U.N. | 1957 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| The Steve Allen Plymouth Show | 1957 | TV Series | Himself - Men In War |
| The House Without a Name | 1956 | Documentary short |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Harmony Game | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
| Stars of the Silver Screen | 2011 | TV Series | Ben Vandergroat |
| Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Brad Carlton Dan Hammond |
| The Naked Archaeologist | 2005 | TV Series documentary | John the Baptist |
| Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| La guerra en el cine | 2003 | Video documentary short | Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin |
| The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Sandy Dawson (uncredited) |
| Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Reno Smith / Col. Everett Dasher Breed |
| Classified X | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | actor 'The Naked Spur' (uncredited) |
| Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | 1991 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | 1987 | Documentary | Earl Pfeiffer |
| The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn | 1986 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Frontier Justice | 1959-1961 | TV Series | Captain Krag / Matt |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Special Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | The Iceman Cometh (1973) | |
| 1973 | KCFCC Award | Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Supporting Actor | The Iceman Cometh (1973) |
| 1973 | NBR Award | National Board of Review, USA | Best Actor | The Iceman Cometh (1973) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Male Supporting Performance | The Wild Bunch (1969) |
| 1963 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Foreign Actor | Billy Budd (1962) |
| 1948 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Crossfire (1947) |
2nd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | NSFC Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | Best Actor | The Iceman Cometh (1973) |
Known for movies
The Wild Bunch (1969)
as Deke Thornton
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
as Reno Smith
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
as Col. Everett Dasher Breed
The Set-Up (1949)
as Bill 'Stoker' Thompson