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August 03, 2011 Film » Movie Journal

In Praise of Robert Ryan

by Mark Asch

Robert Ryan, probably the greatest actor in the history of cinema and subject of a long-awaited Film Forum retrospective from August 12 through the end of the month, was tall—six foot four—and handsome, the first son of a prominent Irish-American Chicago family,…

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