Tim Ryan
Actor
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 Asphalt Jungle
as Jack (Police Clerk) (uncredited) 1950
Detour
as Diner Owner Gus 1945
Ball of Fire
as Motor Policeman 1941
This Gun for Hire
as Weems, Guard (uncredited) 1942
Force of Evil
as Johnson 1950
Body and Soul
as Jack Shelton (uncredited) 1947
Champion
as Al (Kansas City Manager) (uncredited) 1949
I Wake Up Screaming
as Detective (uncredited) 1941
The Strawberry Blonde
as Streetcleaner Foreman (uncredited) 1941
Brother Orchid
as Turkey Malone 1940
Alias Nick Beal
1949
The Luck of the Irish
as Policeman (uncredited) 1948
Pot o' Gold
as 'Snooky' - Spieler (uncredited) 1941
Dark Alibi
as Foggy 1946
Detective Kitty O'Day
as Inspector Clancy 1944
Dead Men Tell
as Bartender 1941