| Name |
Mitch Ryan |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
American |
| Date of Birth |
11-January-1928 |
| Place of Birth |
Chicago,Ohio, U.S. |
| Famous for |
Acting |
Ryan was raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. After the Korean War, he went to the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia. There he went on to make his acting debut in Thunder Road along with the Theatre's founder Robert Porterfield.
Ryan was an original cast member on the cult TV soap Dark Shadows, playing Burke Devlin until he was fired from the show in June 1967 due to his alcoholism] and replaced by Anthony George. His other acting credits include Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Liar, Liar, Magnum Force (Dirty Harry's ill-fated despondent best friend and fellow traffic cop Charlie McCoy), Lethal Weapon (as the key villain, General Peter McAllister), Grosse Pointy Blank, Electra Glide in Blue, and Hot Shots! Part Deux (as senator Grey Edwards). In 1973, he played the lead in the NBC adventure show Chase, with co-stars Wayne Maunder and Reid Smith. In 1980, Ryan played wagonmaster Cooper Hawkins in the CBS western miniseries The Chisholms, taking a wagon train of pioneers to California during the 1840s, and becoming the de fact head of the Chisholm family after the death of patriarch Hadley Chisholm. And in 1985, he portrayed Tillet Main, the patriarch of the Main family in the first North and South (TV miniseries). In 1995, he appeared in Judge Dredd.
