Mitchell Ryan, who performed a villainous basic within the first Lethal Weapon film, a ruthless businessman on TV’s Santa Barbara and had character roles on the cleaning soap opera Dark Shadows and the Nineteen Nineties sitcom Dharma & Greg, died Friday. He was 88.
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Ryan died of congestive coronary heart failure at his Los Angeles residence, his stepdaughter, Denise Freed, informed the Hollywood Reporter.
Rugged, granite-jawed and sporting a smooth mane of hair, Ryan was immediately recognizable on TV and the large display screen. His profession spanned greater than a half-century, starting with an uncredited position within the 1958 Robert Mitchum movie Thunder Road.
RIP Mitchell Ryan. pic.twitter.com/lhDEdjKVVG
— (@DaveC2015) March 5, 2022
He was a general-turned heroin smuggler in Lethal Weapon, police officer in Magnum Force and Electra Glide in Blue, and the conniving, murderous Las Vegas businessman Anthony Tonell within the nighttime TV cleaning soap opera Santa Barbara.
In the Nineteen Nineties, he had a long-running position as Greg’s rich, eccentric and boozy father on Dharma & Greg.
Ryan performed Burke Devlin on the cult Sixties cleaning soap opera Dark Shadows for one season however he was fired due to his alcoholism.
Just heard Mitchell Ryan, or as I’ll at all times consider him Edward from #DharmaandGreg has handed away. Thinking of his family members. He was a good looking and type man that introduced pleasure to so many. pic.twitter.com/nEekpij27r
— Holly (@goodgollymissH) March 5, 2022
Ryan acknowledged his ingesting points in his 2021 autobiography, Fall of a Sparrow.
“I’m blessed that, 30 years a drunk, I’ve managed to live a working actor’s life to be envied. And I’ve lived a great deal of real life while I was at it,” he wrote. “Sober for the next 30 years, I’m told that I’ve come out of it all a good and useful human being.”
Ryan had roles on many TV exhibits and in films starting from High Plains Drifter with Clint Eastwood to Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.
He additionally carried out within the theater, together with Broadway appearances in Wait Until Dark, Medea and The Price.
“He was a great gift in my life,” Kathryn Leigh Scott, who appeared with him in Dark Shadows, mentioned in a Facebook publish. “I cherish my heat reminiscences of his stunning soul. I’m heartbroken.”
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