Acting

Thomas Ryan

Thomas Ryan is an actor.

Acting credits

The Relic poster
6.2

A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.

The Relic

1997

The Principal poster
6.5

Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.

The Principal

1987

Summer School poster
6.4

A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconventional brand of teaching fun field trips begins to connect with them, and even inspires ardor in some.

Summer School

1987

Wolfen poster
6.0

A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.

Wolfen

1981

Nocturna poster
4.4

Hard times have fallen on the Transylvanian House of Dracula. To help pay the taxes, Castle Dracula has been converted into the Hotel Transylvania. Dracula himself is aging and toothless, being cared for by his granddaughter Nocturna. When Nocturna books a disco group to play The Claret Room and winds up falling in love with one of the backup guitarists, a mortal named Jimmy, she notices that she is able to see her reflection when she dances, so she decides to follow Jimmy to New York in search of mortality.

Nocturna

1979

Fighting Back poster
5.8

An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.

Fighting Back

1982

Talent for the Game poster
7.0

Virgil Sweet is on the verge of losing his job as a talent scout with the California Angels when he discovers Sammy Bodeen, a country boy with no pro ball experience, but with a pitching arm no one has seen the like of.

Talent for the Game

1991

She Said No poster
7.7

A successful career woman is raped by a prominent lawyer. However, when she takes the case to court, it results in a hung jury. When the DA's office declines to retry the case, the lawyer opts to sue the woman for malicious prosecution and slander leaving her feeling raped again.

She Said No

1990

Starting Out in the Evening poster
6.7

Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.

Starting Out in the Evening

2007

A Father's Homecoming poster
6.5

Long separated from his teenaged son and daughter, Michael Fields comes into contact with them in a most unexpected fashion. He is appointed headmaster of the exclusive New England private school where they both are enrolled.

A Father's Homecoming

1988

Maid for Each Other poster
6.3

In this hilarious crime caper, a rich woman and her maid happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time -- and now, they're hotfooting it away from vicious mobsters who want to fit them for a couple pairs of cement overshoes. Can they stay free -- and alive -- long enough to gather evidence against the mobsters?

Maid for Each Other

1992

Cameo by Night poster
9.0

Failed TV pilot about Jennifer, a police secretary who goes undercover as rock fan Cameo to search the music scene for a serial killer who preys upon teens at music venues. Her handler is police detective Bellflower.

Cameo by Night

1987

California Girls poster
4.6

A New Jersey auto mechanic travels to California to find the girl of his dreams and woos a bikini fashion model while the time quarreling with her high-powered manager and avoiding his New Jersey girlfriend who comes looking for him.

California Girls

1985

Rivkin: Bounty Hunter poster
9.0

A New York-based bounty hunter who makes a living chasing and capturing bail jumpers matches wits with a heavily-armed drug dealer in this pilot to a prospective series.

Rivkin: Bounty Hunter

1981

The 11th Commandment poster
4.3

Fashioning himself as a priestly avenger, Robert escapes from the insane asylum and begins slashing his way through anyone who stands between him avenging the actions of his greedy uncle.

The 11th Commandment

1986

Rock-A-Die Baby poster
4.1

A mother tells her daughter three scary bedtime stories: a small platoon in the jungles of Vietnam encounters a horror other than the war, a group of college friends decides to play a prank on a prudish girl they know from school, and the woman tells her daughter about what happened shortly after she and the girl's father were married.

Rock-A-Die Baby

1989

Diary of a City Priest poster
6.5

David Morse plays Father John McNamee, a catholic priest who accepts a position at an inner-city church. The film begins with Father McNamee as he starts his new job and follows the priest through his struggles in adapting to his new surroundings. Based on a true story

Diary of a City Priest

2001