Tim Ryan
Actor, Film actor
1899 – 1956
Who was Tim Ryan?
Tim Ryan 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 some 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 wrote screenplays. In films of the 1940s and the early 1950s, Ryan appeared on screen playing numerous roles as cops, newspaper editors and detectives.
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- Born
- Jul 5, 1899
Bayonne - Also known as
- Timothy Thomas Ryan
- Tim
- Tim and Irene
- Spouses
- Irene Ryan
(1922/03/03 - 1942)
- Irene Ryan
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Oct 22, 1956
Hollywood
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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