Acting

Tim Ryan

Tim Ryan is best known for The Abbott and Costello Show, The Life Of Riley and Further Adventures of Spin and Marty. Tim Ryan was born on July 4, 1899. Tim Ryan died on October 22, 1956 at the age of 57.

Born: July 4, 1899
Place of birth: Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Died: October 22, 1956 (57 years old)

Biography

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.