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  1. May 19, 2015 · Engaging biography softens up movie tough guy Robert Ryan. By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL. Updated 12:18 PM PDT, May 19, 2015. “The Lives of Robert Ryan” (Wesleyan University Press), by J.R. Jones. Actor Robert Ryan spent a good deal of his life promoting peace, civil rights and other social causes.

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    3. Robert Bushnell Ryan (November 11, 1909 – July 11, 1973) was an American actor and activist. Known for his portrayals of hardened cops and ruthless villains, Ryan performed for over three decades. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film noir drama Crossfire (1947).

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  4. Aug 5, 2011 · Aug. 5, 2011. BORN to play beautifully tortured, angry souls, the actor Robert Ryan was a familiar movie face for more than two decades in Hollywood’s classical years, his studio ups and downs...

  5. On the face of it, Robert Ryan had a pretty good run in Hollywood—credited in 70 films and several television movies and series—but why wasn’t he an even bigger star? As one of the most striking new talents to arrive on the post-WW II Hollywood scene, Ryan made an indelible mark in crime films, westerns, war movies, melodramas and more.

  6. Jul 12, 1973 · Robert Ryan, the versatile and durable film and stage actor, died yesterday in New York Hospital. He was 63 years old and had lived at 135 Central Park West since the death of his wife last...

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    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. A gifted, intelligent and powerful actor, Robert Ryan passed away on July 11th, 1973 of lung cancer.

  8. May 27, 2015 · In this excerpt from Jones’s new biography The Lives of Robert Ryan (Wesleyan University Press), the actor gets swept into the presidential campaign of Senator Eugene McCarthy, which will...

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