On screen, there always was something unsettling and unsettled behind Robert Ryan’s eyes. Tall (6-foot-4), formidable, with a voice somewhere between soothing and scarily resigned, he was per… ...

Robert Ryan was greatly respected by directors, ... Ryan was a natural for westerns and starred in a dozen of them over the years. Most of them are forgettable, ...

In the 1969 epic The Wild Bunch, William Holden leads an exhausted band of bandits through a big score that dead-ends in Mexico, under the gun of embittered ex-partner Robert Ryan.

IndieWire editors list the top 100 greatest Western movies of all time, from acclaimed directors including John Ford and Sergio Leone. ... Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Dean Jagger, ...

A potent presence in noirs, Westerns and melodramas, capable of embodying both warmth and brutality with mesmerizing intelligence and subtlety, Robert Ryan (1909–73) became best-known for his ...