- Date de naissance
- Date de décès20 mars 2007 · Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis (accident vasculaire cérébral)
- Nom de naissanceJohn Patrick Ryan
- Taille1,83 m
- John P. Ryan est né le 30 juillet 1936 dans l'état de New York, États-Unis. Il était acteur. Il est connu pour Runaway Train (1985), Batman contre le Fantôme masqué (1993) et Le facteur sonne toujours deux fois (1981). Il est mort le 20 mars 2007 en Californie, États-Unis.
- Deep, commanding voice
- Injured in a helicopter crash on the set of Delta Force 2 (1990) that injured 2 and killed 5 others.
- Rare opportunity to play a sympathetic character in the 1970s "It's Alive" series of horror films as the father of the monster baby.
- Introduced to films by Jack Nicholson, who included him in five of his projects starting with Cinq pièces faciles (1970).
- Manic-eyed American character actor sometimes billed as "John Ryan" who has played dogged cops or tough military, but is better remembered for his streamlined villains that could turn particularly vicious or lethal ("Runaway Train").
- Spent six years in the U.S. Army.
- "It's Alive" was different from other monster stories in one way. With Dr. Frankenstein and all the versions of that character, you never have a reconciliation between the monster and the monster-maker. In "It's Alive," not only does he who made the monster spare it, but he owns up to creating it and they reconcile.
- [on horror films] Horror is a great medium. If it's done with skill and forcefulness, it's as good as film gets. It represents denied or disowned or unacknowledged darkness. That's where nightmares come out, that's where monsters are born. It's fabulous to touch things subliminally in the subconscious, things that have always been there. In a funny way, it's like American sports. If we didn't have people out there spitting their lungs out at football and hockey games, we would have a psychopathic society. It releases a lot of pent-up emotions, all kinds of feelings, and it puts people in touch with things they weren't aware of themselves.
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