Irene Ryan
Birthday: 1902-10-17
Place of Birth: El Paso, Texas, USA
Biography: Before becoming known to millions as Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Irene Ryan was already an established vaudeville, radio and movie actress, though not as famous prior to her television stint. She accompanied Bob Hope on his famous military tours and she was known as "the gal who makes Bob Hope laugh." After being cast as Granny, she became famous overnight. When the Hillbillies ended, she co-starred in the Broadway musical 'Pippin' with Ben Vereen. Unfortunately, despite wonderful reviews from critics, Ryan took ill, was discovered to have an inoperable brain tumor and died soon after at the age of 70.
Movies
Peaceful Relations
An Educational Pictures comedy starring the husband and wife team of Tim and Irene Ryan....
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The Woman on the Beach
A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seduct...
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The Diary of a Chambermaid
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use ...
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Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title
A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evad...
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That Night with You
In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a...
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That's the Spirit
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated ...
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San Diego I Love You
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father...
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Arch of Triumph
In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows ...
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Bonzo Goes to College
When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll...
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Blackbeard, the Pirate
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard....
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Half Angel
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night ...
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Spring Reunion
A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class...
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Heading for Heaven
A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airp...
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Meet Me After the Show
A Broadway star devises a scheme to win back her husband when she suspects he's being unfaithful....
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Melody Parade
The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing....
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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Ta...
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Sarong Girl
A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed....
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Reveille with Beverly
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ fo...
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Hot Rhythm
Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, an...
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Mighty Joe Young
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Jo...
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One Big Happy Family
When Tim Ryan's leading lady walks out in a small hillbilly town, the leading lady he selects -- at ...
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The Wacky Family
Tim has just been promoted to sales manager and his boss says he will be out to visit Tim and Irene ...
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Just Plain Folks
In a burlesque of the radio program "One Man's Family", Tim pays a visit to his fiancée, Irene Carr,...
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Desire in the Dust
Lonnie Wilson returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for kill...
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My Dear Secretary
A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen...
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His Pest Girl
Tim Ryan teams with his wife, Irene, playing a salesman who runs into a saleswoman with an identical...
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The Sultan's Daughter
A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American....
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O, My Darling Clementine
"Dapper Dan" Franklin and his small troupe of actors become stranded in the small town of Harmony, T...
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The Beautiful Cheat
The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology ...
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There's a Girl in My Heart
A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an I...
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Melody for Three
Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music t...
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Rockabilly Baby
The mysterious Mrs. Eleanor Carter moves to Springville with her two teenage children Jimmy and Cath...
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Hold Your Temper
When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that ther...
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Ricochet Romance
Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken ...
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Little Iodine
Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her fat...
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An Old-Fashioned Girl
A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find thei...
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Will You Stop?
Tim (Tim Ryan) has written what he thinks is a great skit about Antony and Cleopatra for the departm...
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