Dick Ryan

Acting
1896-08-25
New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Known For & Full Filmography51 Titles

#1Perry Mason

Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes as Mr. Hill

7.7 / 10
MysteryDramaCrime

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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#2The Andy Griffith Show

Drama Series - 1960, 16 episodes as Mr. Wilson

7.6 / 10
ComedyFamily

The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.

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#3Dragnet

Drama Series - 1951, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
DramaCrime

Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.

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#4The Red Skelton Show

Drama Series - 1951, 16 episodes as Human Fly

7.4 / 10
ComedyTalkFamily

The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as well. Although his television series is largely associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than fifteen years, it actually began and ended on NBC. During its run, the program received three Emmy Awards, for Skelton as best comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial season, and an award for comedy writing in 1961.

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#5Climax!

Drama Series - 1954, 16 episodes as Detective Ryan

3.8 / 10
DramaMystery

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.

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#6Rawhide

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes as The Undertaker

7.2 / 10
WesternDrama

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

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#7Rawhide

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes as Bank Guard

7.2 / 10
WesternDrama

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

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#8The Jack Benny Program

Drama Series - 1950, 16 episodes as Man Sentenced for Jay Walking (uncredited)

7.8 / 10
Comedy

Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.

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#9Bat Masterson

Drama Series - 1958, 16 episodes as Burt Mason

6.4 / 10
WesternDrama

Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.

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#10The Millionaire

Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes as Bradley - Butler

5.8 / 10
Drama

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.

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#11Trackdown

Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.9 / 10
WesternAction & Adventure

Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.

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#12Strangers on a Train

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Minister (uncredited)

7.7 / 10
CrimeThrillerDrama

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

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#13Around the World in 80 Days

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Extra (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
AdventureComedyFamily

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

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#14Hey, Jeannie!

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes as Butler

6.2 / 10
Comedy

Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the Saturday slot following The Gale Storm Show and preceding the western series Gunsmoke. Six additional episodes aired in 1958 in syndication. Reruns of Hey, Jeannie! aired during the summer of 1960 under the title The Jeannie Carson Show.

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#15A Star Is Born

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Nightclub Man (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
DramaMusicRomance

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

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#16The Glenn Miller Story

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Auto Garage Repairman (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
DramaMusicRomance

A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.

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#17Call Northside 777

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Parole Board Member (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
CrimeDrama

In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal to look into the case. For some time, McNeal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.

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#18Advise & Consent

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Senator (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
Drama

Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.

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#19The Company She Keeps

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Waiter (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
Drama

A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.

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#20The Last Hurrah

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Man (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
Drama

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.

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#21The Las Vegas Story

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Henry, the Bartender (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
DramaCrimeThriller

When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.

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#22A Royal Scandal

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Russian General (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
ComedyHistoryDrama

Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

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#23Flamingo Road

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
DramaRomance

A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

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#24Law of the Lawless

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Kinfolk

6.5 / 10
Western

A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.

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#25The Secret Fury

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Postman (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
CrimeDrama

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.

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#26Black Tuesday

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Electrician Checking Electric Chair (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
CrimeThriller

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.

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#27The Lonely Man

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.1 / 10
Western

Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past...

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#28Summer and Smoke

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as Dr. Hodges (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
DramaRomance

In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.

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#29Young Man with Ideas

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Court Clerk (uncredited)

5.2 / 10
ComedyDrama

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

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#30Walk Softly, Stranger

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Poker Player (uncredited)

5.1 / 10
DramaCrimeRomance

Fugitive Chris Hale starts over in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, where he befriends Elaine Corelli, a kind-hearted heiress left disabled after a skiing accident. As love blossoms, Hale vows to change his ways, but escaping his past may mean one last job.

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#31The Lady Takes a Sailor

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Apartment House Clerk (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
ComedyRomance

Jennifer Smith heads a "Consumer Reports"-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greatest asset. While out boating one day she encounters a secret prototype submarine piloted by Bill Craig. Trying to explain her absence after her boat sinks becomes very difficult as Bill and his cohorts attempt to discredit her story.

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#32Crack-Up

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Reynold's Butler (Uncredited)

5.8 / 10
ThrillerMystery

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

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#33Ruthless

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Servant (Uncredited)

5.7 / 10
DramaThriller

Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to foot the bill for his Harvard education. When Vic, another childhood pal, is invited to Horace's mansion for a party, he brings along Mallory Flagg, who happens to bear a striking resemblance to Martha. As Vic and Horace reunite, old resentments rise to the surface.

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#34Born to Be Bad

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Arthur

6.0 / 10
Drama

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.

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#35Easy Living

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Danny, Bartender (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
Drama

A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.

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#36Alice in Wonderland

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m as (voice) (archive footage)

6.8 / 10
FamilyAnimationFantasy

This production was originally broadcast on radio back in the 1940s. It was put on DVD with new animation.

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#37Wild Is the Wind

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Priest

6.8 / 10
Drama

A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his lost love and her tendency to drift away to other men cause the two to have a tough time at keeping a marriage together.

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#38I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Hawker (uncredited)

7.5 / 10
Music

A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's

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#39Abandoned

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Third Plainclothesman (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
CrimeDramaThriller

A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.

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#40The Buster Keaton Story

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Susan's Father (uncredited)

5.2 / 10
ComedyDrama

An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.

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#41Bowery Blitzkrieg

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Police Lieutenant

6.1 / 10
ComedyCrime

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with gangsters.

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#42The Scarlet Crystal

Movie - 1917, 2h 15m as Billy Van Duyn

8.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

Priscilla Worth, an innocent country girl, goes to the city to visit her aunt, who has sent for her, thinking that her childlike simplicity will afford a welcome relief to Vincent Morgan, a wealthy bachelor and man-about-town. The plan works, but soon after Vincent and Priscilla's marriage, Vincent, besieged by his friends to return to his gay life and suspicious of his wife's relationship with Durant--an artist who has painted her portrait--yields to temptation.

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#43Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Bartender

6.6 / 10
ComedyFantasyRomance

As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that the thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish.

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#44Mr. Wise Guy

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m as Jed Miller

6.6 / 10
ComedyDramaRomance

The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes involved in a killing and, while also innocent, is convicted and sentenced to death. Through a series of events, Muggs, Glimpy, Danny and the rest of the gang, learn that Knobby, a henchman of Luke Manning, knows something about the murder.

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#45Once Upon a Horse...

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Henry Dick Coryell

8.3 / 10
ComedyWestern

Two zany cowboys steal a herd of cattle only to discover it costs more to feed them than they are worth.

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#46Jiggs and Maggie in Court

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Grogan

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father." She visits McManus in his studio office and tries to persuade him to stop drawing the syndicated comic-strip. He tells her he will...in 1959. Maggie, not getting any younger, retains counsel and takes McManus to court.

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#47Jiggs and Maggie in Society

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Grogan

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.

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#48Beau Revel

Movie - 1921, 2h 15m as Rossiter Wade

5.0 / 10
Drama

Lawrence Revel, celebrated in society circles for his success with women, is devoted to his son Dick and objects to his marrying Nellie, a cabaret dancer. To prove her unworthiness, Beau asks his son not to see her for 2 weeks. Unwittingly, Beau falls in love with the girl, but his attentions are refused.

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#49The Search for Bridey Murphy

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Duncan Murphy Sr. / Duncan Murphy Jr. at Age 70 (Uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Drama

After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.

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#50Collector’s Item

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
AdventureMysteryTV Movie

Mr. Prentiss is an appraiser at his firm, the House of Prentiss. He is about to go to Florida to appraise a vast collection of a recently deceased collector, Van der Locken, when he receives an unwanted visit from Ivor Hager, who informs him of "The Left Fist of David," a valuable but mysterious art object that was stolen from a Mexican church. An unsold TV Pilot

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#51Her Soul's Inspiration

Movie - 1917, 2h 15m as Philip Carstairs

8.8 / 10
Drama

A girl who loves dancing more than anything must prove her identity in order to keep her inheritance.

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