
Acting
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.

The Abbott and Costello Show
1952

The Life Of Riley
1953

The Asphalt Jungle
1950

From Here to Eternity
1953

Further Adventures of Spin and Marty
1956

Ball of Fire
1941

This Gun for Hire
1942

Body and Soul
1947

Force of Evil
1950

Champion
1949

Detour
1945

I Wake Up Screaming
1941

And the Angels Sing
1944

Alias Nick Beal
1949

The Luck of the Irish
1948

Brother Orchid
1940

The Strawberry Blonde
1941

Detective Kitty O'Day
1944

Maisie Was a Lady
1941

A Man Betrayed
1941

Red, Hot and Blue
1949

Dead Men Tell
1941

True to Life
1943

The Buster Keaton Story
1957

Here Come the Marines
1952

Stand by for Action
1942

Pot o' Gold
1941

Two Sisters from Boston
1946

Stand By All Networks
1942

Butch Minds the Baby
1942

Nazi Agent
1942

Blondie Goes to College
1942

Strictly in the Groove
1942

The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943

Bedtime Story
1941

Blue, White and Perfect
1942