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