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Robert Ryan

Robert Ryan

ROBERT RYAN is an author, journalist and screenwriter. He was born in Liverpool and moved to London to study natural sciences at university. He began his writing career in the late 1980s for The Face, Arena and the US edition of GQ, before moving to a staff job in the Sunday Times. In 1999, after the publication of his first novel, Underdogs, he left to go freelance, although he is still a frequent contributor to the newspaper. He has published a total of twelve novels under his own name, the latest being Death on the Ice, and two (Steel Rain and Copper Kiss) as Tom Neale. The latter have been optioned by Fremantle TV with a view to creating a TV series. Ryan is... Read full bio

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Times Union, May 9, 2013
...dated June 11, 1958. (CBS Photo Archive, ) Jeanne Crain in "The Great Gatsby" on PLAYHOUSE 90. Image dated... Robert Ryan and Jeanne Crain in "The Great Gatsby" on PLAYHOUSE 90. Image dated June 12, 1958. (CBS Photo Archive, ) Robert Ryan and...
Slate Magazine, April 30, 2013
...to Nathaniel Rich’s widely reviewed new novel, this is a taut heist thriller with gripping performances by Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Gloria Grahame, Ed Begley and Harry Belafonte. Stardust Memories  (1980) Elegantly bridging the gap between...
New York Times, March 1, 2013
...about frontier race relations originally intended for John Ford and John Wayne. Horizons West (1952) offers the tenebrous Robert Ryan as an impatient rancher who turns to rustling, in one of several big ranch westerns of the early 50s that expressed a...
Nudge, February 21, 2013
...during their time together to the test. More lives than just his own may depend on the outcome. Robert Ryan has taken on a daunting task, to place one of the world’s most famous supporting characters front and centre. Watson is a character that many...
Scottish Daily Express, February 10, 2013
...Sentimentality wasn't his strong point, but a few tears may just pay off As a nation, we never used to blub, did we? Roy of the Rovers never blubbed after a football game; Dan Dare didn’t blub either, so far as I remember. Now blubbing is part of...
Scottish Daily Express, February 9, 2013
...Yet eventually it is and says one character: “When we signed up for this, we thought we knew who the enemy was. Over there. Fritz. The Hun. But who’s the enemy now… The enemy might be the bloke next to you, the one bringing the tea, even your...
Cleveland Live, February 2, 2013
...NOIR CLASSICS The "Noir Town" series continues with "Odds Against Tomorrow," a 1959 film starring Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters and Gloria Grahame. A black gambler and a racist ex-con join forces for a heist. Where: Cleveland...
Johnston Sun Rise, May 11, 2013
...communities can rest secure in the knowledge that this dangerous felon has been brought to justice,” Cranston Major Robert Ryan said in a release. Spearheading the Cranston investigation was Detective Paula Duffy. According to Warwick Detective...
Telegraph, May 11, 2013
...shot, and snow is everywhere. Matching the movie's grim visage with a rugged one of his own, Robert Ryan gives a central performance that's ruthlessly tough. As the story begins, he's riding in to air a grievance about barbedwire fences, and we...
Telegraph, May 11, 2013
...shot, and snow is everywhere. Matching the movie's grim visage with a rugged one of his own, Robert Ryan gives a central performance that's ruthlessly tough. As the story begins, he's riding in to air a grievance about barbedwire fences, and we...
New York Times, May 10, 2013
...would essentially reshape this material into four years later, wisely dividing Dundees divided character into two separate figures Robert Ryan as an obsessive bounty hunter and William Holden as the romantically anachronistic outlaw (the year is 1913)...
Affton-Shrewsbury Patch, May 10, 2013
...to Robert Redford and others who have assumed that role, from Warner Baxter (before talkies), to Alan Ladd, Robert Ryan and more. Mulligan’s Daisy is too ephemeral to give resonance to anyone’s feelings about her, which undermines the emotional core...
New York Times, May 10, 2013
...would essentially reshape this material into four years later, wisely dividing Dundees divided character into two separate figures Robert Ryan as an obsessive bounty hunter and William Holden as the romantically anachronistic outlaw (the year is 1913)...
Clayton Richmond Heights Patch, May 10, 2013
...to Robert Redford and others who have assumed that role, from Warner Baxter (before talkies), to Alan Ladd, Robert Ryan and more. Mulligan’s Daisy is too ephemeral to give resonance to anyone’s feelings about her, which undermines the emotional core...