Acting

Paddy Ryan

Born 1911-01-03 · Greenwich, London, England, UK

Paddy Ryan was born on 3 January 1911 in Greenwich, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for An American Werewolf in London (1981), Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (1983) and Hell Below Zero (1954). He was married to Agnes Campbell. He died on 10 May 1990 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK.

Acting credits

An American Werewolf in London poster
7.4

American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.

An American Werewolf in London

1981

Countess Dracula poster
5.8

Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to become young again; but the price to be paid by those around her will be high and bloody.

Countess Dracula

1971

The Sword and the Rose poster
6.4

Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.

The Sword and the Rose

1953

Undercover Girl poster
5.4

Nightclub employee Joan Foster assists the brother of a murdered reporter to expose a drug ring.

Undercover Girl

1958

Doomwatch poster
6.1

The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.

Doomwatch

1972

Body Contact poster
5.6

In the future, around Tottenham and Hackney, taxi driver Smiley comes to the assistance of the beautiful Dominique Renoir, who's on the run from her violent Mafia boyfriend.

Body Contact

1987

The Black and Blue Lamp poster
NR

Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In 1949 Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station he is mysteriously transported into an episode of The Filth - a 1988 police series where the hard men rule, where he is told by the local CID that he'll be confessing to the murder or else his genitals are getting cut off ! This black comedy questions whether the police have changed or is it the way film and television present them.

The Black and Blue Lamp

1988

On the Game poster
3.7

Comic look at the history of prostitution.

On the Game

1974

Dick Barton at Bay poster
4.3

David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).

Dick Barton at Bay

1950

The Crimson Permanent Assurance poster
7.2

A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.

The Crimson Permanent Assurance

1983

No artwork available
NR

Set on a remote Russian steppe during the Russian Civil War of 1917-1921, a captured White Guard Officer is about to be hanged by the Bolsheviks. Will a reprieve arrive in time?

The Reprieve

1972

It’s the Only Way to Go poster
6.0

A black comedy, in mime, about the funeral of an old man who dies from an overdose of excitement while watching a young girl strip.

It’s the Only Way to Go

1970