Tim Ryan
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.
Filmography
The Buster Keaton Story
1957
as Studio Policeman (uncredited)
The Cruel Tower
1956
Fighting Trouble
1956
as Ray Vance
Private Eyes
1953
as Andy
From Here to Eternity
1953
as Sgt. Pete Karelsen
The Marksman
1953
as Stage Driver
Fargo
1952
as Sam
Here Come the Marines
1952
as Sheriff Benson
All That I Have
1951
as Ben Renson
Crazy Over Horses
1951
as Flynn
Force of Evil
1950
as Johnson
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
1950
as Bentley
The Asphalt Jungle
1950
as Jack - Police Clerk (uncredited)
Jiggs and Maggie Out West
1950
as Dinty Moore
French Fried Frolic
1949
as Tim
Wha' Happen?
1949
as Tim, Vera's husband
Red, Hot and Blue
1949
as Stranger (uncredited)
Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters
1949
as Dinty Moore
Forgotten Women
1949
as Harry
Sky Dragon
1949
as Lt. Mike Ruark
Champion
1949
as Al (Kansas City Manager) (uncredited)
Alias Nick Beal
1949
Miss Mink of 1949
1949
as Police Sgt. Clancy
Shamrock Hill
1949
as Uncle