Robert Ryan
Executive Action (1973)
Executive Action is a 1973 American conspiracy thriller film directed by David Miller about the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. Written by Dalton Trumbo, it was based on the novel of the same name by Mark Lane and Donald Freed. It stars Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan. Miller had previously worked with Trumbo on his film Lo...
Starring: Mary Astor•Karen Black•Marilyn Monroe
The Iceman Cometh (1973)
The Iceman Cometh is a 1973 American drama film directed by John Frankenheimer. The screenplay, written by Thomas Quinn Curtiss, is based on Eugene O'Neill's 1946 play of the same name. The film was produced by Ely Landau for the American Film Theatre, which from 1973 to 1975 presented thirteen film adaptations of noted plays.
Starring: Karen Black•Jim Brown
Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973)
Lolly-Madonna XXX is a 1973 film directed by Richard C. Sarafian. The film was co-written by Rodney Carr-Smith and Sue Grafton, based on the 1969 novel The Lolly-Madonna War by Grafton.
Starring: Karen Black•Woody Strode•Barbara Stanwyck
The Outfit (1973)
The Outfit is a 1973 American neo-noir crime film directed by John Flynn. It stars Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker and Robert Ryan.
Starring: Karen Black•Ward Bond•Merle Oberon•Spencer Tracy•Pat O'Brien
Lawman (1971)
Lawman is a 1971 American revisionist Western film produced and directed by Michael Winner and starring Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb and Robert Duvall.
Starring: Robert Young•Karen Black•Marilyn Monroe•Ward Bond•Ida Lupino•Merle Oberon•Henry Fonda
The Love Machine (1971)
The Love Machine is a 1971 American drama film based on the best-selling novel by Jacqueline Susann. Directed by Jack Haley Jr., it stars John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper and David Hemmings.
Starring: Karen Black•James Stewart•John Carradine
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic Revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The plot concerns an aging outlaw gang on the Mexico–United States border trying to adapt to the changing modern world of 1913. The film was controversial ...
Starring: Anthony Quinn•Van Heflin•Karen Black•Lee J. Cobb•Sid Caesar•Robert Preston•Ruth Hussey•Robert Stack
Anzio (1968)
Anzio, also known as The Battle for Anzio, is a 1968 Technicolor war film in Panavision, an Italian and American co-production, about Operation Shingle, the 1944 Allied seaborne assault on the Italian port of Anzio in World War II. It was adapted from the book Anzio by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, who had been the BBC war correspondent at the battle.
Starring: William Holden•Karen Black•Will Geer
The Busy Body (1967)
The Busy Body is a 1967 American comedy film directed and produced by William Castle and based on Donald E. Westlake's novel of the same name. It was Richard Pryor's film debut.
Starring: Karen Black•Edmond O'Brien•Joan Leslie•Robert Mitchum
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin with an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker and Robert Webber. Set in 1944 during the S...
Starring: Karen Black•Sid Caesar•Jim Brown•David Farrar•Hurd Hatfield•Lizabeth Scott•Jan Sterling•Audrey Totter•Burt Lancaster•Janet Leigh
Hour of the Gun (1967)
Hour of the Gun is a 1967 Western film depicting Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday during their 1881 battles against Ike Clanton and his brothers in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and the gunfight's aftermath in and around Tombstone, Arizona, starring James Garner as Earp, Jason Robards as Holliday, and Robert Ryan as Clanton. The film was directed by ...
Starring: Martha Hyer•Karen Black•Paul Douglas
The Professionals (1966)
The Professionals is a 1966 American Western film written, produced, and directed by Richard Brooks and starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, with Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale and Ralph Bellamy in supporting roles. The script was adapted from the 1964 novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank O'Rourke.
Starring: Karen Black•Marilyn Monroe•Jim Brown•Burl Ives
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Battle of the Bulge is a 1965 American widescreen epic war film produced in Spain, directed by Ken Annakin, and starring Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, and Charles Bronson. The feature was filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and exhibited in 70 mm Cinerama. Battle of the Bulge had its world premiere on December 16, 19...
Starring: Rock Hudson•Julie Adams•Karen Black•Joyce MacKenzie•David Farrar•Jan Sterling•Ernest Borgnine•Anne Francis
The Dirty Game (1965)
The Dirty Game is a 1965 anthology spy film starring Henry Fonda and Robert Ryan. Robert Ryan as American General Bruce is the link between three different spy stories, helmed by different directors; original James Bond director Terence Young and co-director Werner Klingler for the sequences in Berlin, Christian-Jaque for the French sequences, and ...
Starring: Rock Hudson•Karen Black•Gene Barry
King of Kings (1961)
King of Kings is a 1961 American epic religious film directed by Nicholas Ray and produced by Samuel Bronston for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Adapted from the New Testament, the film tells the story of Jesus of Nazareth from his birth and ministry to his crucifixion and resurrection. It stars Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus, with Siobhán McKenna, Robert Ryan, Viv...
Starring: Karen Black•Shirley Booth•Lee Marvin•Jeffrey Hunter
Ice Palace (1960)
Ice Palace is a 1960 Technicolor historical drama adventure film directed by Vincent Sherman and adapted from a novel of 1958 written by Edna Ferber. The film stars Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Carolyn Jones and Martha Hyer. It dramatizes the debate over Alaska statehood. Alaska had become a state in 1959.
Starring: Karen Black•Richard Burton•Suzan Ball•Vittorio Gassman•Carolyn Jones
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Day of the Outlaw is a 1959 Western film starring Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, and Tina Louise. It was directed by Andre DeToth; this was DeToth's final Western feature film.
Starring: Karen Black•Brian Keith•Sheree North
God's Little Acre (1958)
God's Little Acre is a 1958 American comedy-drama film of Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel of the same name. It was directed by Anthony Mann and shot in black and white by cinematographer Ernest Haller. Although the film was not released until August 1958, its production schedule was indicated as September 11 to late October 1957.
Starring: Karen Black•Albert Salmi•Sheree North
Lonelyhearts (1958)
Lonelyhearts, also known as Miss Lonelyhearts, is a 1958 American drama film directed by Vincent J. Donehue. It is based on the 1957 Broadway play by Howard Teichmann, which in turn is based on the 1933 novel Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West.
Starring: John Cassavetes•Karen Black•Dolores Hart•James Garner•Rip Torn
Men in War (1957)
Men in War is a 1957 black and white American war film about the Korean War directed by Anthony Mann and starring Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray as the leaders of a small detachment of American soldiers cut off and desperately trying to rejoin their division. The events of the film take place on one day; 6 September 1950. The picture was based on a 1949 ...
Starring: Karen Black•Albert Salmi•Clint Walker
Back from Eternity (1956)
Back from Eternity is a 1956 American drama film about a planeload of people stranded in the South American jungle and subsequently menaced by headhunters. The film stars Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Anita Ekberg and Gene Barry. The film is a remake of the 1939 film Five Came Back, also directed and produced by John Farrow. Richard Carroll, who is cre...
Starring: Karen Black•Maureen Stapleton•Woody Strode•Peter Falk
The Proud Ones (1956)
The Proud Ones is a 1956 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Robert D. Webb and starring Robert Ryan and Virginia Mayo. The film was based on the 1952 novel by Verne Athanas who after suffering an early heart attack, he gave up logging and started writing under the pseudonym Bill Colson.
Starring: Karen Black•Dyan Cannon
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American neo-Western film directed by John Sturges with screenplay by Millard Kaufman. It stars Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan with support from Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. The film is a crime drama set in 1945 that contains elements of the revisionist Weste...
Starring: Telly Savalas•Ty Hardin•Karen Black•Sid Caesar•Robert Shaw•Jim Brown
Escape to Burma (1955)
Escape to Burma is a 1955 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Allan Dwan starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and David Farrar. The film was based on the short story "Bow Tamely to Me" by Kenneth Perkins, originally published in the October 31, 1936 issue of Collier's.
Starring: Arlene Golonka•Karen Black•Richard Pryor
House of Bamboo (1955)
House of Bamboo is a 1955 American film noir shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color, directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller, and starring Robert Ryan. The other co-screenwriter was Harry Kleiner. The cinematographer was Joseph MacDonald.
Starring: Donald Sutherland•Karen Black
About Mrs. Leslie (1954)
About Mrs. Leslie is a 1954 American drama film directed by Daniel Mann and starring Shirley Booth and Robert Ryan. It was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 1955.
Starring: Karen Black•Emilio Fernández•Joe Don Baker
Alaska Seas (1954)
Alaska Seas is a 1954 American crime film noir directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Robert Ryan and Brian Keith. The supporting cast features Jan Sterling, Gene Barry and Aaron Spelling. The picture is a loose remake of the 1938 film Spawn of the North, which had starred George Raft, Henry Fonda and John Barrymore.
Starring: Karen Black•Jeff Bridges•J.D. Cannon
Her Twelve Men (1954)
Her Twelve Men is a 1954 American comedy drama film starring Oscar-winning Greer Garson and Robert Ryan, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, and written by William Roberts and Laura Z. Hobson. This MGM production was based on the best-selling pseudo-autobiographical book written by Louise Maxwell Baker, Snips and Snails. Baker herself taught at an all-b...
Starring: Mary Astor•Karen Black•Claudette Colbert
City Beneath the Sea (1953)
City Beneath the Sea is a 1953 American adventure film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Robert Ryan, Mala Powers, Anthony Quinn and Suzan Ball. The film is based on the book Port Royal: The Ghost City Beneath the Sea by Harry E. Rieseberg.
Starring: Paul Lukas•Karen Black•Joan Bennett•Charles Bickford
Inferno (1953)
Inferno is a 1953 American drama/thriller starring Robert Ryan, William Lundigan and Rhonda Fleming, directed by Roy Ward Baker. It was shot in Technicolor and shown in 3-D, with stereophonic sound.
Starring: Karen Black•John Wayne
The Naked Spur (1953)
The Naked Spur is a 1953 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker, and Millard Mitchell. Written by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom, the film is about a bounty hunter who tries to bring a murderer to justice, and is forced to accept the help of two strangers who are less than ...
Starring: Ginger Rogers•Karen Black•John Agar
Beware, My Lovely (1952)
Beware, My Lovely is a 1952 film noir crime film directed by Harry Horner starring Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan and Taylor Holmes. The film is based on the 1950 play The Man by Mel Dinelli, who also wrote the screenplay.
Starring: Van Heflin•Karen Black
Clash by Night (1952)
Clash by Night is a 1952 American film noir drama directed by Fritz Lang and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe and Keith Andes. The film is based on the 1941 play by Clifford Odets, adapted for the screen by writer Alfred Hayes. It is the first major film to credit Monroe before the title, albeit with fourth billi...
Starring: Arlene Golonka•Karen Black•Randolph Scott•Fred Astaire•Ward Bond
Horizons West (1952)
Horizons West is a 1952 American Western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Robert Ryan, Julie Adams and Rock Hudson.
Starring: Karen Black•Ida Lupino•Merle Oberon
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
On Dangerous Ground is a 1951 film noir-melodrama starring Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino, directed by Nicholas Ray, and produced by John Houseman. The screenplay was written by A. I. Bezzerides based on the 1945 novel Mad with Much Heart, by Gerald Butler.
Starring: Van Heflin•Karen Black
Best of the Badmen (1951)
Best of the Badmen is a 1951 Western film directed by William D. Russell that is set in Missouri during the post-American Civil War period. It stars Robert Ryan, Claire Trevor and Robert Preston. It was a loose follow-up to Return of the Bad Men (1948).
Starring: James Stewart•Karen Black
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Flying Leathernecks is a 1951 American Technicolor action war film directed by Nicholas Ray, produced by Edmund Grainger, and starring John Wayne and Robert Ryan. The movie details the exploits and personal battles of United States Marine Corps aviators during World War II. Marines have long had the nickname "leatherneck", hence the title.
Starring: John Carradine•Karen Black
On Dangerous Ground (1951)
On Dangerous Ground is a 1951 film noir-melodrama starring Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino, directed by Nicholas Ray, and produced by John Houseman. The screenplay was written by A. I. Bezzerides based on the 1945 novel Mad with Much Heart, by Gerald Butler.
Starring: Anthony Quinn•Van Heflin•Karen Black
The Racket (1951)
The Racket is a 1951 black-and-white film noir drama directed by John Cromwell with uncredited directing help from Nicholas Ray, Tay Garnett, and Mel Ferrer. The production features Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, and William Conrad. Future Perry Mason regular cast members William Talman and Ray Collins appear in key roles.
Starring: William Holden•Karen Black•Robert Benchley•Laraine Day•Robert Preston
Born to Be Bad (1950)
Born to Be Bad is a 1950 American film noir melodrama directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan and Zachary Scott. It features Fontaine as a manipulative young woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. It is based on the bestselling novel All Kneeling by Anne Parrish (1928).
Starring: Ruth Hussey•Karen Black
The Secret Fury (1950)
The Secret Fury is a 1950 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Mel Ferrer and starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan and Jane Cowl.
Starring: Greer Garson•Karen Black
Act of Violence (1949)
Act of Violence is a 1949 American film noir starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan and featuring Janet Leigh, Mary Astor and Phyllis Thaxter.
Starring: Janet Leigh•Paul Douglas•Karen Black•John Agar
I Married a Communist (1949)
The Woman on Pier 13 is a 1949 American film noir drama directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, and John Agar. It previewed in Los Angeles and San Francisco in 1949 under the title I Married a Communist but, owing to poor polling among preview audiences, this was dropped prior to its 1950 release.
Starring: Lizabeth Scott•Karen Black•Rhonda Fleming
The Set-Up (1949)
The Set-Up is a 1949 American film noir boxing drama directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter. The screenplay was adapted by Art Cohn from a 1928 narrative poem of the same name by Joseph Moncure March. The Set-Up was the last film Wise made for RKO, and he named it his favorite of the pictures he directed for the studio, ...
Starring: Karen Black•Audrey Totter
Act of Violence (1948)
Act of Violence is a 1949 American film noir starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan and featuring Janet Leigh, Mary Astor and Phyllis Thaxter.
Starring: Janet Leigh•Paul Douglas•Karen Black•John Agar
Berlin Express (1948)
Berlin Express is a 1948 American drama film starring Robert Ryan, Merle Oberon and Paul Lukas, and directed by Jacques Tourneur.
Starring: Marilyn Monroe•William Talman•Karen Black
Return of the Bad Men (1948)
Return of the Bad Men, also known as Return of the Badmen, is a 1948 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan and Anne Jeffreys. A loose sequel to the 1946 film Badman's Territory, it was followed by Best of the Badmen (1951). Written by the husband-and-wife team of Jack Natteford and Luci Ward, the fil...
Starring: Joyce MacKenzie•Karen Black
Crossfire (1947)
Crossfire is a 1947 American film noir drama film starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan which deals with the theme of anti-Semitism, as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement. The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and the screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on the 1945 novel The Brick...
Starring: Mala Powers•William Holden•Karen Black
Trail Street (1947)
Trail Street is a 1947 American Western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys and George "Gabby" Hayes. Based on the novel Golden Horizons by William Corcoran, and a screenplay by Norman Houston and Gene Lewis, the film is about the legendary Bat Masterson who brings law and order to the town of Libera...
Starring: Joyce MacKenzie•Karen Black
The Woman on the Beach (1947)
The Woman on the Beach is a 1947 film noir directed by Jean Renoir and starring Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan and Charles Bickford. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is a love triangle drama about Scott, a conflicted U.S. Coast Guard officer (Ryan), and his pursuit of Peggy, a married woman (Bennett). Peggy is married to Tod, a blind form...
Starring: Rock Hudson•Keith Andes•Karen Black
Marine Raiders (1944)
Marine Raiders is a 1944 RKO war film showing a fictional depiction of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion and 1st Marine Parachute Battalion on Guadalcanal, R&R in Australia, retraining in Camp Elliott and a fictional attack in the Solomon Islands. Produced by Robert Fellows, and directed by Harold D. Schuster, it stars Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, and R...
Starring: Suzan Ball•Ginger Rogers•Karen Black
Gangway for Tomorrow (1943)
Gangway for Tomorrow is a 1943 American anthology film produced and directed by the Austrian-American John H. Auer, and originally known by its working title, An American Story. Steeped in the propaganda tones of early World War II features, the film is largely B-fare.
Starring: Fred Astaire•John Carradine•Karen Black
The Sky's the Limit (1943)
The Sky's The Limit is a 1943 romantic musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Joan Leslie, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The film was directed by Edward H. Griffith, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Astaire plays a Flying Tiger pilot on leave. Robert T. Smith, a real former Flying Tiger pilot on leave before join...
Starring: Robert Benchley•Ruth Hussey•Joan Leslie•Karen Black
Tender Comrade (1943)
Tender Comrade is a 1943 black-and-white film released by RKO Radio Pictures, showing women on the home front living communally while their husbands are away at war.
Starring: Margo Albert•Karen Black