About
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.
Known for
The Abbott and Costello ShowSeries • 1952
The Life Of RileySeries • 1953
From Here to EternityMovie • 1953
The Asphalt JungleMovie • 1950
Force of EvilMovie • 1950
DetourMovie • 1945
This Gun for HireMovie • 1942
Ball of FireMovie • 1941
Body and SoulMovie • 1947
ChampionMovie • 1949
The Luck of the IrishMovie • 1948
Alias Nick BealMovie • 1949
The Strawberry BlondeMovie • 1941
I Wake Up ScreamingMovie • 1941
Dark AlibiMovie • 1946
Brother OrchidMovie • 1940
Pot o' GoldMovie • 1941
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn GorillaMovie • 1952
Detective Kitty O'DayMovie • 1944