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John P. Ryan
Highest Rated: 93% Dillinger (1973)
Lowest Rated: 8% Rent-A-Cop (1988)
Birthday: Jul 30, 1936
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
A barrel-chested, silver-haired character player since the late 1960s, Ryan frequently appeared in films and on TV, usually as officials and cops. His feature credits include small turns in two Bob Rafelson 70s classics, "Five Easy Pieces" (1970) and "The King of Marvin Gardens" (1972). Ryan had somewhat larger roles as Kennedy in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1981), as the gung-ho head of the space program in "The Right Stuff" (1983), as the irate Warden Ranken in "Runaway Train" (1985) and as a gangster in "Bound" (1995). Ryan's additional appearances include Francis Ford Coppola's "The Cotton Club" (1984) and "Fatal Beauty" (1987). His largest TV roles to date have been in the movie "Death Scream" (1975) and the miniseries "Kennedy" (1983).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87% | 83% | Bound | Micky Malnato (Character) | $3.8M | 1996 |
| 48% | 52% | Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill | Grub (Character) | $8.2M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Bad Blood | John Blackstone (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 83% | 88% | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | 'Buzz' Bronski (Voice) | $5.0M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young Goodman Brown | The Devil (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Star Time | Sam Bones (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 52% | 58% | Hoffa | Red Bennett (Character) | $23.3M | 1992 |
| 44% | 41% | White Sands | Arms Dealer (Character) | $8.2M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Delta Force 3: The Killing Game | Sergei (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Blood River | Henry Logan (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 11% | 40% | Delta Force 2 | Gen. Taylor (Character) | $5.9M | 1990 |
| 63% | 49% | Class of 1999 | Mr. Hardin (Character) | $1.4M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Eternity |
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- | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Paramedics | Captain Prescott (Character) | $149.6K | 1988 |
| 8% | 17% | Rent-A-Cop | Wieser (Character) | $294.3K | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | City of Shadows | Sergeant Fireman (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 20% | 55% | Fatal Beauty | Lt. Kellerman (Character) | $10.8M | 1987 |
| 57% | 73% | Three O'Clock High | Mr. O'Rourke (Character) | $3.1M | 1987 |
| 25% | 40% | Death Wish 4: The Crackdown | Nathan White (Character) | $4.7M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Avenging Force | Prof. Elliott Glastenbury (Character) | $3.2M | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Houston: The Legend of Texas | David Burnett (Character) | - | 1986 |
| 83% | 76% | Runaway Train | Ranken (Character) | $7.2M | 1985 |
| 74% | 57% | The Cotton Club | Joe Flynn (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 63% | 48% | Breathless | Lt. Parmental (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shooting Stars | McGee (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 80% | 63% | The Escape Artist | Vernon (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 79% | 58% | The Postman Always Rings Twice | Kennedy (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 47% | 27% | It Lives Again | Frank Davis (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Behind the Badge | Flagler (Character) | - | 1977 |
| 36% | 30% | Futureworld | Dr. Schneider (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 79% | 60% | The Missouri Breaks | Si (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Woman Who Cried Murder | Detective Dave Lambert (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Death Scream | Detective Dave Lambert (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Target Risk | Ralph Sloan (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 67% | 41% | It's Alive | Frank Davies (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 25% | 40% | Shamus | Hardcore (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | Cops and Robbers | Patsy O'Neill (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 93% | 75% | Dillinger | Charles Mackley (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 69% | 58% | The King of Marvin Gardens | Surtees (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 89% | 84% | Five Easy Pieces | Spicer (Character) | - | 1970 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71% | 85% | Miami Vice | Jake Manning (Guest Star) | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Simon & Simon | Stewart Crawford (Guest Star) | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | M*A*S*H | Major Van Zandt (Guest Star) | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Starsky and Hutch | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rockford Files | Dearborn (Guest Star) | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Woman | Collier (Guest Star) | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Peter Ibbotson (Guest Star) | 1974 |