title: Robert Ryan: A Biography and Critical Filmography
author:  Franklin Jarlett 
description: "extensively researched...recommended"--<i>Library Journal</i>; "well worth the money"--<i>Little Shoppe of Horrors</i>; "compellingly told"--<i>Choice</i>; "useful"--<i>Sightlines</i>; "a detailed study of the underrated actor whose output took in <i>Crossfire, The Set-Up</i> and <i>The Wild Bunch</i>"--<i>Film Review</i>; "in-depth"--<i>American Cinematographer.</i>
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  _the lives of_  
  ROBERT RYAN
  
  
  ![Image](images/pg_ii.jpg)
  
  
  _the lives of_
  
  
  ROBERT
  
  
  RYAN
  
  
  J.R. JONES
  
  
  _Wesleyan University Press_ | _Middletown, Connecticut_
  
  
  Wesleyan University Press
  
  
  Middletown, CT 06459
  
  
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  © 2015 J.R. Jones
  
  
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  paper.
  
  
  Portions of this book appeared previously in “The Dark Shadings of Robert
  Ryan: A Brief Biography,” _Noir City_ , Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 2011, and in
  “The Actor’s Letter” and “The Essential Robert Ryan,” _Chicago Reader_ ,
  October 29, 2009.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Jones, J.R., 1963–
  
  
  The lives of Robert Ryan / J.R. Jones.
  
  
  pages cm
  
  
  Includes bibli