Cast: Robert Ryan
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Robert Ryan. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Wild Bunch
1969 · Movie · 145 min. · United States
Direction Sam Peckinpah
Cast William Holden · Ernest Borgnine · Robert Ryan · Edmond O'Brien
Plot A band of brutal outlaws led by the bitter Pike Bishop (William Holden) is decimated when a railroad company ambush led by Pike's old pal Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan) turns...
8.0
25K votes
8.0
25K votes
The Dirty Dozen
1967 · Movie · 145 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Lee Marvin · Charles Bronson · John Cassavetes · Ernest Borgnine
Plot An Army Major who likes to butt heads with his superiors, is being "given" a new assignment, to train 12 men who are either sentenced to death or life imprisonment,...
7.7
38K votes
7.7
38K votes
Bad Day at Black Rock
1955 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction John Sturges
Cast Spencer Tracy · Robert Ryan · Lee Marvin · Anne Francis
Plot One of the first Hollywood films to deal openly with white racism toward Japanese Americans during World War II, this drama directed by 1950s action maestro John Sturges (The Great...
7.6
6K votes
7.6
6K votes
The Set-Up
1949 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Robert Wise
Cast Robert Ryan · Audrey Totter · George Tobias · Alan Baxter
Plot "Stoker" Thompson is getting ready to enter the ring. His wife, Julie, tells him that she won?t watch the fight and begs him to quit. Meanwhile, Thompson's seedy manager has...
7.6
2K votes
7.6
2K votes
Billy Budd
1962 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Ustinov
Cast Robert Ryan · Peter Ustinov · Terence Stamp · Melvyn Douglas
Plot H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, and the dark shadow of two recent mutinies in the English fleet concern Captain Vere. He...
7.6
1K votes
7.6
1K votes
The Professionals
1966 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
Direction Richard Brooks
Cast Burt Lancaster · Lee Marvin · Robert Ryan · Jack Palance
Plot Wealthy J.W. Grant hires Henry Fardan, Jake Sharp, Hans Ehrengard, and Bill Dolworth, each a specialist in his own field, to go into Mexico to bring back his wife, who...
7.4
9K votes
7.4
9K votes
The Naked Spur
1953 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast James Stewart · Robert Ryan · Janet Leigh · Millard Mitchell
Plot Howard Kemp (James Stewart) is a bounty hunter who's been after killer Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan) for a long time. Along the way in Colorado, Kemp is forced to take...
7.4
3K votes
7.4
3K votes
The Longest Day
1962 · Movie · 180 min. · United States
Direction Ken Annakin · Andrew Marton · Bernhard Wicki
Cast John Wayne · Robert Mitchum · Henry Fonda · Richard Burton
Plot England in June 1944. Unseasonal storms. Allied troops are massed ready for the invasion of France, some already on the boats. The Normandy beaches will be their destination while paratroopers...
7.3
15K votes
7.3
15K votes
Act of Violence
1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Van Heflin · Robert Ryan · Janet Leigh · Mary Astor
Plot War veteran Frank Enley seems to be a happily married small-town citizen until he realises Joe Parkson is in town. It seems Parkson is out for revenge because of something...
7.2
450 votes
7.2
450 votes
The Tall Men
1955 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Clark Gable · Jane Russell · Robert Ryan · Cameron Mitchell
Plot Ben Allison and his brother Clint journey to Montana in search of gold. They come upon wealthy businessman Nathan Stark who talks them into becoming partners with him on a...
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
Clash by Night
1952 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Paul Douglas · Robert Ryan · Marilyn Monroe
Plot Mae Doyle (Barbara Stanwyck) returns to the safe haven of her hometown, a small fishing community in Monterey, California. Upon her arrival, she is befriended by young woman (Marilyn Monroe)...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Caught
1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Max Ophüls
Cast James Mason · Barbara Bel Geddes · Robert Ryan · Natalie Schafer
Plot Young model Leonora Eames (Bel Geddes) marries multimillionaire Smith Ohlrig (Ryan). Ohlrig though is deranged and did not marry for love. Eames insists several times that she married for love,...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
On Dangerous Ground
1951 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Nicholas Ray
Cast Ida Lupino · Robert Ryan · Ward Bond · Charles Kemper
Plot Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects and is sent upstate to help investigate the murder of a young girl in the winter countryside. There...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
Men in War
1957 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Anthony Mann
Cast Robert Ryan · Aldo Ray · Robert Keith · Vic Morrow
Plot In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring...
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
Crossfire
1947 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast Robert Mitchum · Robert Young · Robert Ryan · Gloria Grahame
Plot This unusual and worthwhile black-and-white film noir was one of the first movies to deal with issues of anti-Semitism. A weary Washington detective (Robert Young) must get to the bottom...
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
Day of the Outlaw
1959 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction André De Toth
Cast Robert Ryan · Burl Ives · Tina Louise · Nehemiah Persoff
Plot Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is...
7.0
740 votes
7.0
740 votes
The Iceman Cometh
1973 · Movie · 239 min. · United States
Direction John Frankenheimer
Cast Lee Marvin · Fredric March · Robert Ryan · Jeff Bridges
Plot Jason Robards burst onto the Broadway scene in 1956 with his performance in Eugene O'Neill's devastating Iceman Cometh, playing the central role of Hickey, a salesman who comes to a...
6.9
397 votes
6.9
397 votes
House of Bamboo
1955 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Robert Stack · Robert Ryan · Shirley Yamaguchi · Brad Dexter
Plot Sandy Dawson had assembled a platton of ex-army thugs to run panchinko parlours while pulling off bloody heists and armed robbery. The murder of a friend brings Eddie Spanier into...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Odds Against Tomorrow
1959 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Robert Wise
Cast Harry Belafonte · Robert Ryan · Shelley Winters · Ed Begley
Plot Ex cop Dave Burke (Ed Begley) is looking to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earl Slater (Robert Ryan), a white and racist ex-convict, and Johnny...
6.8
632 votes
6.8
632 votes
The Woman on the Beach
1947 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Jean Renoir
Cast Joan Bennett · Robert Ryan · Charles Bickford · Nan Leslie
Plot After recuperation from physical and psychological trauma during the war, Robert Ryan finds himself stationed at a sleepy Coast Guard outpost on the California coast. He's restless and diffident about...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes