American character actor born in Cincinnati and raised in Louisville, Mitchell Ryan was a well known supporting actor in films and television. Joined the Navy in 1951 at age 17 and was later assigned to the Special Services Entertainment and became hooked on acting. After his term in the Navy, he appeared in dozens of plays until he received notice as playing a regular in TV's Dark Shadows (1966).Beginning in the 1970s, he received work in motion pictures including Monty Walsh un uomo duro a morire (1970), Una 44 magnum per l'ispettore Callaghan (1973) and in Clint Eastwood's Lo straniero senza nome (1973). He had a small part in Universal's La battaglia di Midway (1976) and returned to act in numerous soaps and television series, among them included a recurring guest role in Having Babies (1978), Executive Suite (1976), The Chisholms (1979) and La valle dei pini (1970) and a growing list of television films and TV guest appearances.He may have been best-known for portraying the villain that Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are after in Arma letale (1987), but his career included several supporting roles in the past ten years including Dredd - La legge sono io (1995), Michael Myers' nemesis in Halloween 6 - La maledizione di Michael Myers (1995), Bugiardo bugiardo (1997) (with Jim Carrey), and as Harrison Ford's chief out to get Brad Pitt in the film L'ombra del diavolo (1997).
