ACTOR

Mitchell Ryan

1928 - 2022

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Mitchell Ryan (January 11, 1934 – March 4, 2022) was an American actor. His six decades of television credits, he is known for playing Burke Devlin in the 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, and later for his co-starring role as Thomas Gibson's father Edward Montgomery on Dharma & Greg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mitchell Ryan has received more than 1,316,339 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mitchell Ryan is the 2,895th most popular actor (up from 3,027th in 2019), the 4,459th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,731st in 2019) and the 1,310th most popular American Actor.

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  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mitchell Ryan ranks 2,895 out of 13,578. Before him are Ferdinand Raimund, L. Q. Jones, Yuri Lyubimov, Nikolai Karachentsov, Martha Hyer, and John Doman. After him are Seth MacFarlane, Ian Bannen, Enrique Irazoqui, Robert Urich, Hugh Bonneville, and James Michael Tyler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Mitchell Ryan ranks 282. Before him are Eve Meyer, Anna Kolesárová, Chaim Kanievsky, Marion Ross, Eric Porter, and Tahir Salahov. After him are Ian Bannen, Arthur Melvin Okun, Elio Sgreccia, Bill Mollison, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, and Dick Miller. Among people deceased in 2022, Mitchell Ryan ranks 237. Before him are Manny Charlton, Peter Straub, Rupiah Banda, Yoko Shimada, Kálmán Mészöly, and L. Q. Jones. After him are Ercole Baldini, Pablo Milanés, Gilbert Gottfried, Freddy Rincón, Julio Jiménez, and Bo Hopkins.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mitchell Ryan ranks 4,459 out of 20,380. Before him are Maggie Q (1979), David Paich (1954), Wilfrid Sellars (1912), L. Q. Jones (1927), Martha Hyer (1924), and John Doman (1945). After him are Seth MacFarlane (1973), Edmund Muskie (1914), Gary Snyder (1930), Robert Urich (1946), Ruggiero Ricci (1918), and Arthur Melvin Okun (1928).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Mitchell Ryan ranks 1,310. Before him are June Squibb (1929), Dennis Franz (1944), Maggie Q (1979), L. Q. Jones (1927), Martha Hyer (1924), and John Doman (1945). After him are Seth MacFarlane (1973), Robert Urich (1946), James Michael Tyler (1962), Leo Penn (1921), Richard Kind (1956), and Elizabeth Olsen (1989).

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Television and Movie Roles

Lethal Weapon
General Peter McAllister
Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a death wish and takes unnecessary risks with criminals at every turn. The odd couple embark on their first homicide investigation as partners, involving a young woman known to Murtaugh with ties to a drug and prostitution ring.
Mar 6o 19877.29 / 10
Liar Liar
Mr. Allan
Fletcher Reed, a fast-talking, habitual liar, divorced father, is an incredibly successful lawyer who has built his career by lying. He is used to giving priority to his job and always breaking promises to be with his young son Max, but Fletcher often lets Max down, by missing his son's birthday party. But even then at 8:15 Max decides to make him an honest man as he wishes for a whole day where his father can't lie. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday, he only has one wish - for his father to stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his mouth has suddenly become his biggest obstacle
Mar 21o 19976.685 / 10
Magnum Force
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 shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.
Dec 13o 19737.122 / 10