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Robert Ryan (Robert Bushnell Ryan) was born on 11 November, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, is an actor,soundtrack. Discover Robert Ryan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

Popular As Robert Bushnell Ryan
Occupation actor,soundtrack
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 11 November 1909
Birthday 11 November
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, USA
Date of death 11 July, 1973
Died Place New York City, New York, USA
Nationality United States

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Robert Ryan Height, Weight & Measurements

At 63 years old, Robert Ryan height is 6' 4" (1.93 m) .

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Height 6' 4" (1.93 m)
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Who Is Robert Ryan's Wife?

His wife is Jessica Cadwalader (11 March 1939 - 1972) ( her death) ( 3 children)

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Wife Jessica Cadwalader (11 March 1939 - 1972) ( her death) ( 3 children)
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Robert Ryan Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Robert Ryan worth at the age of 63 years old? Robert Ryan’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated Robert Ryan's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Trail Street (1947)$22 .850
The Iceman Cometh (1973)$25 .000

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Timeline

1927

Attended Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois for high school, class of 1927, where he was an All-City tackle his senior year, playing football for all four years.

1930

Initially planned on studying at the Pasadena Playhouse, but instead became a student of Max Reinhardt in the late 1930s, where he met fellow student and future wife Jessica Cadwalader. Following their marriage, she gave up her acting aspirations and later became a children's fiction-book writer.

1939

Married his wife Jessica Cadawalader on March 11, 1939 at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in West Hollywood.

1941

While performing in a stock play version of "A Kiss for Cinderella" in 1941 with actress Luise Rainer, Rainer's ex-husband, Clifford Odets, saw him and offered him the featured juvenile part in his Broadway play "Clash by Night" as "Joe Doyle", opposite Tallulah Bankhead. A decade later he starred in the film version but had outgrown the juvenile role and instead played Earl Pfeiffer, one of the leads, originated on Broadway by Joseph Schildkraut. His "Joe Doyle" character was played by Keith Andes in the film Clash by Night (1952).

1943

When casting the leading man role in the 1943 Ginger Rogers vehicle Tender Comrade (1943), RKO producer David Hempstead became interested in Ryan due to favorable preview cards hailing Ryan's performances in Bombardier (1943), The Sky's the Limit (1943) and Behind the Rising Sun (1943). He suggested him to Rogers, who was at first unimpressed after screening parts of the three movies. She turned him down as her leading man, as she thought he looked mean and, at 6'4", too big. A week later, when Rogers visited Hempstead at his office, he was busily going through preview cards of "The Sky's the Limit" and showed her some of them. Rogers saw that all the reviews of Ryan's performance were favorable and, since principal production was drawing near, she decided to have another look at him. Ryan was conveniently waiting in a nearby office for just such a possibility. Less than a minute later he came to the office and talked with both the producer and Rogers. After a few moments, she unobtrusively slipped Hempstead a note: "I think this is the guy." Today, the note hangs on the wall above Cheyney Ryan's (Ryan's son) desk in his study.

1946

Two sons, Walker (born April 13, 1946) and Cheyney (born March 10, 1948), and a daughter, Lisa (born September 10, 1951).

1947

Distinguished U. S. actor and longtime civil rights campaigner Robert Bushnell Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Mable Arbutus (Bushnell), a secretary, and Timothy Aloysius Ryan, whose wealthy family owned a real estate firm. His father was of Irish ancestry, and his mother was of English and Irish descent. Ryan served in the United States Marines as a drill sergeant (winning a boxing championship) and went on to become a key figure in post WWII American Film Noir and western productions. Ryan grabbed critical attention for his dynamic performances as an anti-Semitic bully in the superb Crossfire (1947), as an over-the-hill boxer who refuses to take a fall in The Set-Up (1949) and as a hostile & jaded cop in On Dangerous Ground (1951). Ryan's athletic physique, intense gaze and sharply delivered, authoritarian tones made him an ideal actor for the oily world of the Film Noir genre, and he contributed solid performances to many Film Noir features, usually as a vile villain.

1949

Was reportedly a candidate for the role of Samson in Samson and Delilah (1949).

1950

He was a founder of SANE (an anti-nuclear action group) and a vocal supporter of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten during the 1950s.

1951

Ryan managed to get along with John Wayne while filming Flying Leathernecks (1951), although he was appalled by Wayne's active support for blacklisting in Hollywood. However the two stars did not get along at all while filming The Longest Day (1962).

1953

Ryan played a worthy opponent for bounty hunter James Stewart in the Anthony Mann directed western The Naked Spur (1953), he locked horns with an intrepid investigator Spencer Tracy in the suspenseful Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) and starred alongside Harry Belafonte in the grimy, gangster flick Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).

1958

Narrated the shorts 'The Bridge' (1958) and 'The Seven Deadly Sins'.

1959

Co-founded the Theatre Group at the University of California at Los Angeles with John Houseman and Sidney Harmon in 1959. Nine years later in 1968 he co-founded the Plumstead Playhouse Repertory Company, with Henry Fonda and Martha Scott.

1960

His Shakespearean roles included "Antony and Cleopatra" with Katharine Hepburn in 1960, and the title role of "Othello" at the Nottingham Playhouse in England, also in the '60s.

1962

Plus, the inventive Ryan excelled as the ruthless "John Claggart" in Billy Budd (1962), and two different WWII US generals - first in the star-filled The Longest Day (1962) and then in Battle of the Bulge (1965).

1966

He was one of the hard men hired to pursue kidnapped Claudia Cardinale in the hard boiled action of The Professionals (1966), a by-the-book army colonel clashing with highly unorthodox army major Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen (1967), and an embittered bounty hunter (again) forced to hunt down old friend William Holden in the violent Sam Peckinpah western classic The Wild Bunch (1969).

1967

Originally intended to portray "Commodore Matt Decker" in Star Trek: The Original Series: The Doomsday Machine (1967), but was unable to do so. The character was intended as a Captain Ahab-type, obsessed with revenge for the loss of his crew. The role instead went to William Windom who portrayed Decker in a more tragic, sensitive light.

1968

Campaigned for Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 Democratic primaries.

1969

Legend has it that Sam Peckinpah clashed very heatedly with Ryan during the making of The Wild Bunch (1969); however Peckinpah eventually backed down when a crew member reminded Sam of Robert Ryan's proficiency with his fists!Primarily a man of pacifist beliefs, Ryan often found it a challenge playing sadistic and racist characters who very much were at odds with his own personal ideals. Additionally, Ryan actively campaigned for improved civil rights, restricting the growth of nuclear weapons, and he strongly opposed McCarthyism and its abuse of people who many believed were innocent.

1973

For the next eight years prior to his untimely death in 1973, Ryan landed some tremendous roles in a mixture of productions each aided by his high-caliber acting skills leaving strong impressions on movie audiences.

Ryan's final on-screen performance was in the terrific production of The Iceman Cometh (1973) based on the Eugene O'Neill play and also starring Lee Marvin and Fredric March.

1996

In an interview on Scene by Scene (1996), Jeff Bridges tells an anecdote about Ryan during the filming of The Iceman Cometh (1973). The young Bridges noticed that a pool of sweat had formed under Ryan's hand as it rested on a table, and realized that despite his granite demeanor, the veteran star was nervous that they were about to go for a take. When Bridges asked him about this, he replied, 'I'd really be scared if I wasn't scared'.

2000

Was Turner Classic Movies' "Star of the Month" for February 2000, a rare honor for a character lead/supporting player.

2011

New York City, NY, USA: Film Forum screening a series of two dozen Ryan movies. [August 2011]