Tim Ryan

Known for ActingBorn 1899-07-04Died 1956-10-22Bayonne, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Melody Lane

Will You Stop?

Just Plain Folks

Hi, Beautiful

French Fried Frolic

Wha' Happen?

Swingtime Johnny

The Man in the Trunk

Strictly in the Groove

Further Adventures of Spin and Marty

Sky Dragon

Jiggs and Maggie in Court

Jiggs and Maggie in Society

G.I. Honeymoon

Melody Parade

True to Life

Butch Minds the Baby

This Time for Keeps

His Pest Girl

The Big Courtship

Private Eyes

Wife Wanted

The Asphalt Jungle

Shadow of Suspicion

Reveille with Beverly

Harmon of Michigan

Fighting Trouble

Here Come the Marines

From Here to Eternity

Ball of Fire

And the Angels Sing

The Abbott and Costello Show

Detour

The Marksman

Hold That Line

Stand by for Action

Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance

Forgotten Women

Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters

Half Past Midnight

Swingin' on a Rainbow

Sarong Girl

Get Hep to Love

Maisie Was a Lady

This Gun for Hire

Third Finger, Left Hand

Private Affairs

The Strawberry Blonde