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Timothy Thomas Ryan (July 5, 1899 – October 22, 1956) was an American performer who is probably best known today as a film actor. He and his wife, Irene Ryan, who later played Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies, were a show business team that performed on Broadway, film and radio. They made 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 writing screenplays. In films of the 1940s and the early 1950s, Ryan appeared onscreen playing numerous roles as policemen, newspaper editors and detectives.
He was born in Bayonne, New Jersey to Edward and Hannah (McGeehan) Ryan and died in Los Angeles at the age of 57.
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2001.
1 TV show
TV
Crossing Jordan
5.95
2001
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief ...
1988.
1 TV show
TV
China Beach
1988
Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen McMurp...
1956.
1 Movie
Fighting Trouble
1956
An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
1953.
4 Movies
Jalopy
1953
Those wacky Bowery Boys invent a superfast fuel, which will help them win an auto race (isn't this cheating?). However, the fuel is stolen by the bad guys just before the big race...
Private Eyes
1953
After being punched in the nose, Sach finds out that he has the ability to read minds. Slip and the gang start up a detective agency try to cash in on Sach's new powers.
From Here to Eternity
5.67
1953
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
1952.
6 Movies
Fargo
1952
The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started by cattleman. Bill returns to the Fargo country to take his brother's place and is welcomed by law-...
Feudin' Fools
1952
Sach discovers that he is heir to a farm in rural hillbilly country. He and the boys go to the farm to check it out, and find themselves mixed up with feuding hillbillies and a gang of bank robbers.
Hold That Line
1952
The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out o...
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
5.6
1952
Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island.
No Holds Barred
1952
One of the Bowery Boys gains superhuman strength, and he cashes in by becoming a pro wrestler.
Here Come the Marines
1952
After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting t...
1951.
2 Movies
All That I Have
1951
Dr. Charles Greyson is a famous and wealthy former surgeon. His nephews have taken him to court to challenge his competency, due to his recent inexplicable gifts of large amounts of cash to the church...
1950.
2 Movies
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
1950
A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
Jiggs and Maggie Out West
1950
Monogram's Bringing Up Father series, based on the popular comic strip by George McManus, hit a high point of sorts with 1950's Jiggs and Maggie Out West. Joe Yule Sr. (Mickey Rooney's father) and Ren...
1949.
4 Movies
Trouble Makers
1949
Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.
Forgotten Women
1949
A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. Kate Allison drinks to forget playboy Andy Emerson, whom she might have married if her husband, John Allison hadn't...
Sky Dragon
1949
All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is missing. Charlie Chan--and, of course, his #1 son--mus...
1948.
7 Movies
Half Past Midnight
1948
A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe te...
The Luck of the Irish
1948
Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York was followed by a grateful leprechaun who acted as the newsman's servant and conscience.
Angels' Alley
1948
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
Smuggler's Cove
1948
Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name, Terrance Mahoney. The messenger has a letter for "Ter...
The Shanghai Chest
1948
Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites.
Jinx Money
1948
A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of b...
The Golden Eye
5.3
1948
A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of being happy about his now profitable business, ins...
1947.
4 Movies
Body and Soul
1947
Against the wishes of his mother, Charley Davis became a boxer. The fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters as he becomes more successful, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tri...
Merton of the Movies
1947
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generat...
News Hounds
1947
Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring that is fixing sporting events, so he and Sach go und...
Bowery Buckaroos
1947
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped ...
1946.
8 Movies
Two Sisters from Boston
1946
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Mar...
Bowery Bombshell
1946
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, s...
Wife Wanted
1946
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond (Kay Francis) buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell (Paul Cavanagh). Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed (Veda Ann Borg), Caldwell runs a m...
In Fast Company
1946
The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers.
Live Wires
1946
Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. His sister, who got him a job at the company, is angry with him. Slip manages to get a job with the District Attorney servi...
Spook Busters
1946
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night. Meeting up w...
Bringing Up Father
1946
Based on the comic strip by George McManus about the adventures of the social-climbing Maggie and her long-suffering husband Jiggs. In this film, one of Maggie's society friends enlists her help in e...
Dark Alibi
3.56
1946
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had bee...
1945.
7 Movies
Detour
5
1945
Al Roberts, a New York nightclub pianist, hitchhikes to Hollywood to meet his girlfriend Sue. The gambler he's riding with, Charles, unexpectedly dies. Afraid the police wouldn't believe the truth, Al...
Rockin' in the Rockies
1945
Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his older cousin Shorty. Shorty wants to do more than run a ranch, however -- he wants to prospect for gold...
G.I. Honeymoon
1945
In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their wedding night the husband is called away to sentry duty. Later they try again, b...
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
1945
A telephone operator (Jean Parker) plays homicide detective with her boyfriend (Peter Cookson), making it harder for the police.
Fashion Model
1945
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
Swingin' on a Rainbow
1945
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
1944.
9 Movies
Leave It to the Irish
1944
A private eye (James Dunn) investigates the murder of a fur dealer. Monogram.
And the Angels Sing
1944
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an ...
Hot Rhythm
1944
Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band.
Shadow of Suspicion
1944
Brash ladies' man James Dale and his partner, wisecracking Everett Northrup, are sent by Cartell & Co. jewelers to safeguard the arrival of the famous Stonehaven necklace at one of its branch offi...
Kansas City Kitty
1944
A piano teacher and her roommate decide invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music.
Swingtime Johnny
1944
The Andrews Sisters take a hiatus from show business to aid the war effort. They take on jobs at a pipe-organ plant now making artillery shells. But they still find time for plenty of singing and danc...
Crazy Knights
1944
Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted house.
Detective Kitty O'Day
1944
Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test when her investment broker boss is mysteriously murder...
Hi, Beautiful
1944
Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film is also a remake of the 1937 comedy Love in a Bungalow. Patty Callahan (O'Driscoll) offers residence ...
1943.
9 Movies
Riding High
1943
No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. Lamour stars as Ann Castle, a former...
Reveille with Beverly
1943
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, wi...
True to Life
1943
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The...
Melody Parade
1943
The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.
Redhead from Manhattan
1943
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine (both parts p...
Swing Out the Blues
1943
The film is partly a parody of The Goodwill Court, a popular radio problem hosted by advice-dispenser "Mr. Anthony". The host of a "What's your problem?" radio hour tries to smooth the romantic path o...
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
Murders result from an uncle's wish to eliminate beneficiaries to a will.
1942.
10 Movies
This Gun for Hire
1942
When his latest job is paid off in marked bills, sadistic killer-for-hire Raven becomes enraged. On a train out of town, Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, sits beside Raven, who is trying to track do...
The Courtship of Andy Hardy
1942
Andy takes a shine to the shy daughter of the couple who are divorcing.
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industria...
Don't Get Personal
1942
Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored by his company, as he thinks their on-air quarreling...
Get Hep to Love
1942
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
Stand by for Action
1942
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Ai...
Blondie Goes to College
1942
Number 10 in the Blondie series, Blondie Goes to College is predicated on the notion that Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Co...
1941.
11 Movies
Bedtime Story
1941
A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divo...
Where Did You Get That Girl?
1941
In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never...
I Wake Up Screaming
1941
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
Dead Men Tell
3.14
1941
A treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, and a ship full of red herrings complicate Charlie's search for a murderer on board a docked ship.
A Man Betrayed
1941
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in...
Ball of Fire
6.83
1941
A group of academics have been working on an encyclopedia for years in a house. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he goes into the wide world to learn about th...
Three Girls About Town
1941
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sister...
Devil Pays Off
1941
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
Ice-Capades
1941
By Republic Pictures standards, 1941's Ice-Capades certainly qualifies as an "all-star" film. The many subplots center around a performance of the real-life Ice-Capades skating troupe, featuring such ...
Harmon of Michigan
1941
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a coll...
Lucky Devils
1941
Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid newsreel cameramen. When they're not risking their lives coverning the Hot Spots of the world, Dick (Arlen) and Andy (Devine) busy themselve...
1940.
4 Movies
I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now
1940
In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their youngsters who unfortunately despise each other and only pretend to like each other to please their paren...
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the decep...
Hullabaloo
1940
A professional golfer who has become a businessman for his fiancee helps a vagrant get a job and ends up losing his own.
Brother Orchid
1940
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
1937.
1 Movie
Will You Stop?
1937
Tim (Tim Ryan) has written what he thinks is a great skit about Antony and Cleopatra for the department store's annual employee show, but the boss insists on his goofy daughter (Irene Ryan) playing Cl...
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