Edward Ryan

Actor

May 25, 1923 (75 years)

† December 13, 1998

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Biography

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Filmography

8.0

Citizen Kane

Man in Inquirer City Room (uncredited)

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

7.1

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Hank

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

6.3

The Fighting Sullivans

Albert Leo 'Al' Sullivan

The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based on a true story.

6.0

Take It or Leave It

Eddie Collins

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

5.5

Youth Takes a Fling

Boy

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.

7.0

Stolen Heaven

Child on Beach

A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As the police swarm into the seedy tenement, she decides to help him, and the two form an uneasy alliance culminating in a suicide pact.

6.0

Breakfast in Hollywood

Ken Smith

The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940s. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.

6.7

The Caribbean Mystery

Gerald McCracken Jr.

The Caribbean Mystery is a remake of Mr. Moto on Danger Island (1939)-which in turn was a remake of Murder in Trinidad. James Dunn stars as Mr. Smith, a Columbo-like Brooklyn detective who pops up on a tropical island to track down some missing geologists.

6.0

Angels in Disguise

Mr. Carver

Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.

6.0

Within These Walls

Tommie Howland

Michael Howland, a stern hanging judge, is assigned to take over a chaotic prison. There Michael imposes a strict regime of discipline on the inmates. He is similarly rigid and harsh with his own two children Tommie and Anne. However, his son Tommie Howland eventually ends up incarcerated in his father's prison.

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