Robert Ryan — Actor (28)
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Lonelyhearts (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Lonelyhearts
director: Vincent J. Donehue actor: Montgomery Clift / Robert Ryan …
other title: Non desiderare la donna d'altri / Das Leben ist Lüge …
Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings. Adam feels his readers' pain, and eventually, he takes an assignment to meet with Faye Doyle, who is exasperated by her crippled husband. When Faye tries to seduce Adam, he must choose between his job and his girl.
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Tender Comrade (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Tender Comrade
director: Edward Dmytryk actor: Ginger Rogers / Robert Ryan …
other title: Eravamo tanto felici / Mulheres de Ninguém …
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.
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Hour of the Gun (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hour of the Gun
director: John Sturges actor: James Garner / Jason Robards …
other title: L'ora delle pistole / Seksløberens time …
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
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Born to Be Bad (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Born to Be Bad
director: Nicholas Ray actor: Joan Fontaine / Robert Ryan …
other title: La seduttrice / La Femme aux Maléfices …
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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Act of Violence (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Act of Violence
director: Fred Zinnemann actor: Van Heflin / Robert Ryan …
other title: Atto di violenza / Akt der Gewalt …
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.
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The Proud Ones (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Proud Ones
director: Robert D. Webb actor: Robert Ryan / Virginia Mayo …
other title: La grande sfida / Die Furchtlosen …
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
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Trail Street (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Trail Street
director: Ray Enright actor: Randolph Scott / Robert Ryan …
other title: Frontiere selvagge / Die Todesreiter von Kansas …
Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.
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Back from Eternity (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Back from Eternity
director: John Farrow actor: Robert Ryan / Anita Ekberg …
other title: Ritorno dall'eternità / De Volta a Eternidade …
A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found. A remake of Five Came Back (1939).
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The Tall Men (1955) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Tall Men
director: Raoul Walsh actor: Clark Gable / Jane Russell …
other title: Gli implacabili / Nas Garras da Ambição …
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
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The Secret Fury (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Secret Fury
director: Mel Ferrer actor: Claudette Colbert / Robert Ryan …
other title: Nozze infrante / Fureur secrète …
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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The Racket (1951) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Racket
director: John Cromwell actor: Robert Mitchum / Lizabeth Scott …
other title: La gang / A Estrada dos Homens Sem Lei …
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
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Lawman (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Lawman
director: Michael Winner actor: Burt Lancaster / Robert Ryan …
other title: Io sono la legge / Jeg er loven …
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
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God's Little Acre (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
God's Little Acre
director: Anthony Mann actor: Robert Ryan / Jack Lord …
other title: Il piccolo campo / Gottes kleiner Acker …
In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.
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Caught (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Caught
director: Max Ophüls actor: James Mason / Barbara Bel Geddes …
other title: Presi nella morsa / A Cilada da Ambição …
Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life and begins working with New York City doctor Larry Quinada, who she soon falls for. Unfortunately, Ohlrig refuses to grant his wife a divorce, and things get even darker for Leonora when she realizes she's pregnant with his child.