Tim Ryan

Tim Ryan (July 5, 1899 – October 22, 1956) 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 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 writing screenplays. In films of the 1940s and the early 1950s, Ryan appeared onscreen playing numerous roles as policemen, newspaper editors and detectives.

Selected films

• Pot o' Gold (1941) (uncredited) as Snooky
• A Man Betrayed (1941) as Mr. Wilson, Insurance Agent
• Bedtime Story (1941)
• Strictly in the Groove (1942)
• Redhead from Manhattan (1943)
• Detective Kitty O'Day (1944)
• Crazy Knights (1944)
• Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945)
• Rockin' in the Rockies (1945) as Tom Trove
• Detour (1945) as Nevada Diner Proprietor
• Bringing Up Father (1946)
• Dark Alibi (1946) as Foggy
• Jiggs and Maggie in Society (1947)
• Body and Soul (1947) (uncredited) as Jack Shelton
• News Hounds (1947) as editor John 'Bullfrog' Burke
• Shanghai Chest (1948) as Lt. Mike Ruark
• The Golden Eye (1948) as Lt. Mike Ruark, aka "Vincent O'Brien"
• Jiggs and Maggie in Court (1948)
• Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters (1949)
• Sky Dragon (1949) as Lt. Mike Ruark
• Forgotten Women (1949)
• Alias Nick Beal (1949) as Detective Dodds
• Jiggs and Maggie Out West (1950)
• The Asphalt Jungle (1950) (uncredited) as Jack, police clerk
• Cuban Fireball (1951)
• From Here to Eternity (1953) as Sgt. Pete Karelsen