Robert Ryan
26 titles
Filmography
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Day of the Outlaw
(1959)In a town of high tensions, two rival cattlemen must set aside their differences to save the community from a nasty group of outlaws who just rode in.

Men in War
(1957)In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat.

The Set-Up
(1949)An aging heavyweight boxer is ordered by gangsters to throw his last fight, but he refuses to give up—even as his wife begs him to stop.

God's Little Acre
(1958)Un agricultor y sus hijos buscan el oro que supuestamente enterró el abuelo en la finca, pero sus miserias amenazan con destruir a la familia.
Best of the Badmen
(1951)In the American West, in the days after the United States' Civil War, soldiers from the defeated Confederacy fight to defend their neighbors' farms from corrupt Northern corporations. Of these men, the most famous--or infamous--are the Younger brothers and the James brothers... the Best of the Badmen. In the closing days of the Civil War, a band of Confederate soldiers, Quantrill's Raiders, wage a devastating guerilla war against the Union. When their side surrenders, the men who rode with Quantrill return home--but find farmers losing everything they own to Northern banks protected by the gunmen of the Pinkerton Company. Now, these men, Jeff Clanton (Robert Ryan), Jesse and Frank James (Lawrence Tierney and Tom Tyler) and Bob and Cole Younger (Jack Buetel and Bruce Cabot) and their brothers and cousins, use the lethal skills they learned in the War to defend their neighbors.

Billy Budd
(1962)H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, and the dark shadow of two recent mutinies in the English fleet concern Captain Vere.

On Dangerous Ground
(1951)A New York detective falls for the blind sister of a rural killer sought by a victim's father.

Berlin Express
(1948)One night in post-war Paris, seven passengers board the same car of a Berlin-bound train. Over the course of the night, an American agricultural expert (Robert Ryan), a French secretary (Merle Oberon), a German businessman (Fritz Kortner), an English schoolteacher (Robert Coote), a lieutenant of the Russian army (Roman Toporow), a former member of the French underground (Charles Korvin) and a mysterious German (Peter von Zerneck) will be inexplicably allied as they attempt to locate a fellow passenger (Paul Lukas) who has been a crusader for peace.

Lonelyhearts
(1959)A reporter accepts a job writing an advice column for the lovelorn and clashes with his cynical editor, who goads him into meeting a correspondent.

Born to Be Bad
(1950)Even when Christabel's infidelity and scheming catch up to her with tragic results, she cannot stop herself from seducing helpless men.

And Hope to Die
(1972)
Lawman
(1971)Lee J. Cobb, Robert Duvall, Robert Ryan and Burt Lancaster star in this film that reveals a deadly and truthful look at the way the West really was.

The Boy with Green Hair
(1948)After learning he is an orphan, a young boy's hair mysteriously turns green, setting off a series of public reactions to his predicament.

The Busy Body
(1967)Sid Caesar stars as the bumbling right hand man of mob boss Robert Ryan who is sent to find a corpse buried in a suit lined with stolen mob money.

Escape to Burma
(1955)After a prince is slain in British Burma, a fugitive suspect hides on a teak plantation, where an attraction grows between him and the colonial owner.

The Wild Bunch
(1969)Receiving two Academy Award nominations, this bitter, brutal story of magnificent losers in a dying West remains one of the screen's all-time classics.

The Professionals
(1966)Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin headline the top-notch, rip-roaring Western action/adventure THE PROFESSIONALS. Four soldiers of fortune are hired by a wealthy Texan oil baron (Ralph Bellamy) to rescue his kidnapped wife (Claudia Cardinale), who's been spirited across the Mexican border by a band of mercenaries led by Jesus Raza (Jack Palance). The four rugged professionals, each regarded as a sp..

Battle of the Bulge
(1965)In a gripping dramatization, Nazi Germany launches its last desperate counterattack on the Western Front, altering the course of World War II.

The Tall Men
(1955)Clark Gable and Cameron Mitchell end up on a cattle drive after they fail at bank robbery.

The Racket
(1951)Robert Ryan stars as a racketeer and Robert Mitchum stars as the one incorruptible cop on the force, who's determined to bring the mobster to justice in this classic police drama. Top Racketeer Nick Scanlon (Ryan) has anyone he can't bribe murdered until Captain McQuigg convinces Scanlon's moll (Lizabeth Scott) to talk. But McQuigg must still face his fellow cops, who are on Scanlon's payroll, before he can arrest Scanlon.