Biography
Mitchell Ryan (born January 11, 1934) was an American actor most recently known for playing Edward Montgomery on Dharma & Greg. Ryan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He served in the US 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 Dark Shadows, His other acting...
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Complete Filmography

Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
as The Priest in Two-Minute Warning (archive footage)
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen ...
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
1998
as Averell Harriman
Told mostly in flashbacks, the film tells the story of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, one of the greatest and probably most famous courtesan...

Grosse Pointe Blank
1997
as Mr. Bart Newberry
Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his...

Liar Liar
1997
as Mr. Allan
Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.

The Devil's Own
1997
as Chief Jim Kelly
Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to bu...

Raven Hawk
1996
as White
A Native-American woman, who was framed for the murders of her parents years before, returns to her reservation to seek revenge.

Ed
1996
as Abe Woods
Jack Cooper could be a world-class baseball pitcher if he didn't keep buckling under the pressure. He tries to keep his spirits up after he's traded t...

A Face to Die For
1996
as Joe Thomas
A scarred, unattractive young woman is conned into helping with a robbery of her employer. As a result, she is sent to prison, gets plastic surgery, a...

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
1995
as Dr. Terence Wynn
Six years after being kidnapped by a cult, Jamie tries to escape the clutches of her serial killer uncle, Michael Myers.

Judge Dredd
1995
as Vartis Hammond
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his m...

Gramps
1995
as Oliver
After a long search, lawyer Clarke MacGruder finally locates his long lost father Jack. At first, everything seems fine with his new extended family, ...

Speechless
1994
as Lloyd Wannamaker
In the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick begin a romance, unaware they are working for cand...

Blue Sky
1994
as Ray Stevens
Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons testing in 1950s Americ...

Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is
1994
as Chief Carson
When a mentor and friend of Jennifer's dies, she and Jonathan return to the sleepy town where Jennifer once lived and worked as a reporter. Nearly imm...

Star
1993
as Harrison Barclay
When Crystal Wyatt was 16 her father passed away. From that time her life would never be the same. Crystal is banished from the family ranch, and star...

Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993
as Gray Edwards
Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue ...

The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
1992
as Kenneth Davenport
David seriously fancies smart, rich Carrie as soon as he first offends her in a Boston bar. They run into each other again and though she still finds ...

Majority Rule
1992
as John 'Blackjack' Wade
A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of p...

Dirty Work
1992
as Frank Esposito
A bail bondsman deals drugs on the side and thinks he's struck it rich when he conceives a scheme to steal counterfeit money. When the mob comes calli...

Iron Eagle III
1992
as Simms
Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some village people in Peru are at stake, and he decides ...

Deadly Game
1991
as Admiral Mark Nately
A group of seven strangers, including a dancer, a doctor, a teacher, and a disgraced former football player, are brought together on an island owned b...

Judgment
1990
as Dave Davis
Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty ...

Margaret Bourke-White
1989
as Patton
A biographical account of pioneering photographer Margaret Bourke-White's career.

Winter People
1989
as Drury Campbell
Wayland Jackson, a widower with a young daughter, moves to a small, impoverished mountain village in North Carolina, circa 1934. They are taken in by ...

The Ryan White Story
1989
as Tom
The story of Ryan White, a 13-year-old haemophiliac who contracted AIDS from factor VIII, which was used to control this disorder.

Lethal Weapon
1987
as General Peter McAllister
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.

The Penalty Phase
1986
as Donald Faulkner
Things looked pretty simple: the confessed murderer had all the evidence against him. The Prosecutor Jansen could not have been more relentless, conse...

Northstar
1986
as Col. Even Marshall
An astronaut's ship passes through a strange magnetic field on its way back to Earth, and when he emerges from it after landing, he finds he has acqui...

Hostage Flight
1985
as Captain Malone
A plane is hijacked and bound for London. Once the terrorists begin killing hostages, the passengers take matters into their own hands.

The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
1983
as Charlie McCourt
Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious kill...

Uncommon Valor
1983
as Chief Tom Riordan
The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team of firefighters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headed b...
Medea
1983
as Jason
Medea is in Corinth with Jason and their two young sons. King Kreon wants to reward Jason for his exploits: he gives the hand of his daughter, Glauce,...

Of Mice and Men
1981
as Slim
George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always wat...

Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
1981
as Hugh Hefner
The life and tragic death of the "Playboy" centerfold model/actress Dorothy Stratten.

The Five of Me
1981
as Dr. Ralph B. Allison
Henry Hawksworth is a man menaced by a multiple personality. There is Dana, the conservative family man; Johnny, violent and sociopathic; Peter, creat...

Joe Dancer II: The Monkey Mission
1981
as Keyes
Robert Blake's second (of three) "Joe Dancer" movies has the hard-boiled private investigator teaming up with a chimp named Gregor, his trainer (who a...

The Choice
1981
as Jerry Clements
A young woman agonizes over whether or not to have an abortion and learns that her mother did the same 20 years prior.

Angel City
1980
as Silas Creedy
Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.

Flesh & Blood
1979
as Jack Fallon
A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous ...

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force
1978
as Lt. Col. Applegate
The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who, in 1975, publicly divulged his homosexuality and fought to remain in service.

Having Babies III
1978
as Dr. Blake Simmons
Dr. Julie Farr presides over three impending births and cannot help but get involved in the lives of her troubled patients.

Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
1977
as Mathew Sullivan
Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
1977
as Jethro Lundy
A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil War breaks out.

Escape from Bogen County
1977
as Ambler Bowman
A political despot controls his town and his wife Maggie. When Maggie tries to escape his control, he swears a warrant out for her arrest and sends th...

Two-Minute Warning
1976
as The Priest
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter ...

Midway
1976
as RAdm. Aubrey W. Fitch (uncredited)
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

The Hemingway Play
1976
as Ernest
A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously.

The Entertainer
1976
as Mr. Pasko
A vaudeville entertainer approaches middle age still not having attained success or stardom.

Magnum Force
1973
as Officer Charlie McCoy
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When sha...

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973
as Waters
An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously suppl...

Electra Glide in Blue
1973
as Harve Poole
A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his ill...

High Plains Drifter
1973
as Dave Drake
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the ...

Chase
1973
as Capt. Chase Reddick
A special police unit goes after a cop-killer in this pilot film to the short-lived series.

A Reflection of Fear
1973
as Inspector McKenna
A young girl lives with her mother and grandmother. One day her estranged father returns home with a female companion he introduces as his fiance. Soo...

The Honkers
1972
as Lowell
An over-the-hill rodeo champion is so self-centered that he ignores his wife, son, and best friend.

Chandler
1971
as Chuck Kincaid
A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.

The Hunting Party
1971
as Doc Harrison
A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.

My Old Man's Place
1971
as Sgt. Martin Flood
Two soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a peaceful farm owned by the father of one of the men. A...

Monte Walsh
1970
as Shorty Austin
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Mo...

Thunder Road
1958
as Jed Moultrie
Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin (Robert Mitchum) makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon (Tre...