Robert Ryan - biography

“I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.”

“I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.”

“I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer’s attention to these areas.”

Robert Ryan has appeared in the following films:
The Toilers (1928)
Strong Boy (1929)
Golden Gloves (1940)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
Queen of the Mob (1940)
The Ghost Breakers (1940)
The Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)
The Feminine Touch (1941)
Behind the Rising Sun (1943)
Bombardier (1943)
Gangway for Tomorrow (1943)
Tender Comrade (1943)
The Iron Major (1943)
The Sky’s the Limit (1943)
Golden Gloves (1944)
Marine Raiders (1944)
Crossfire (1947)
The Woman on the Beach (1947)
Trail Street (1947)
Act of Violence (1948)
Berlin Express (1948)
Return of the Bad Men (1948)
The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
Caught (1949)
The Set-Up (1949)
The Woman on Pier 13 (1949)
Born to Be Bad (1950)
The Secret Fury (1950)
Best of the Badmen (1951)
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951)
The Racket (1951)
Beware, My Lovely (1952)
Clash by Night (1952)
Horizons West (1952)
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
City Beneath the Sea (1953)
Inferno (1953)
The Naked Spur (1953)
About Mrs. Leslie (1954)
Alaska Seas (1954)
Her Twelve Men (1954)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Escape to Burma (1955)
House of Bamboo (1955)
The Tall Men (1955)
Back from Eternity (1956)
The Proud Ones (1956)
Men in War (1957)
God’s Little Acre (1958)
Lonelyhearts (1958)
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Ice Palace (1960)
King of Kings (1961)
The Canadians (1961)
Billy Budd (1962)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
The Crooked Road (1965)
The Dirty Game (1965)
The Professionals (1966)
Custer of the West (1967)
Hour of the Gun (1967)
The Busy Body (1967)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Lo Sbarco di Anzio (1968)
Un Minuto per pregare, un instante per morire (1968)
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Lawman (1971)
The Love Machine (1971)
La Course du lièvre à travers les champs (1972)
Executive Action (1973)
Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973)
The Iceman Cometh (1973)
The Outfit (1973)