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 Monte Walsh (1970), Siła magnum (1973) and in Clint Eastwood's Mściciel (1973). He had a small part in Universal's Bitwa o 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 Wszystkie moje dzieci (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 Zabójcza broń (1987), but his career included several supporting roles in the past ten years including Sędzia Dredd (1995), Michael Myers' nemesis in Halloween VI: Przekleństwo Michaela Myersa (1995), Kłamca, kłamca (1997) (with Jim Carrey), and as Harrison Ford's chief out to get Brad Pitt in the film Zdrada (1997).
