Kathleen Ryan

Kathleen Ryan

Kathleen Ryan was born in Dublin, Ireland of Tipperary parentage and was a spirited and heart warming Irish actress who appeared in British and Hollywood movies between 1947 and 1957. She was a great beauty in her time. Kathleen Ryan was one of the eight children of Séamus Ryan, a member of Seanad Éireann and his wife Agnes Ryan née Harding who came from Kilfeacle and Solohead respectively in County Tipperary and who were Republican activists during the Irish War of Independence. They opened a shop in Parnell Street, Dublin in the 1920s which was the first of 36 outlets which were known as "The Monument Creameries". The family lived at Burton Hall, near Leopardstown Racecourse in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock. Her brother was John Ryan , a well known artist and man of letters in bohemian Dublin of the 1940s and 50's, who was a friend and benefactor of a number of struggling writers in the post-war era, such as Patrick Kavanagh. He started and edited a short-lived literary magazine entitled "Envoy". Among her other siblings were Fr. Vincent (Séamus) (1930-2005), a Benedictine priest at Glenstal Abbey, Sister Íde of the Convent of The Sacred Heart, Mount Anville, Dublin, Oonagh (who married the Irish artist Patrick Swift), Cora who married the politician, Seán Dunne, T.D. When Kathleen was an undergraduate at University College Dublin, she was introduced to the future, Dr.Dermod Devane of Limerick. They were married in the society wedding of 1944 and had three children, but the marriage was annulled in 1958. As one of Ireland's great beauties of her time, she was the subject of one of Louis le Brocquy's most striking portraits, "Girl in White", which he painted in 1941 and entered in the RHA exhibition of that year. The portrait (oil on canvas) is in the Ulster Museum collection. She died in Dublin, from a lung ailment aged 63 and was buried with her parents beneath an imposing statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, near the Republican Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.

  • Title : Kathleen Ryan
  • Popularity : 1.664
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1922-09-08
  • Place of Birth : Dublin, Ireland
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Kathleen Ryan Movies

  • 1984
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    James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

    James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

    1 1984 HD

    Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie...

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  • 1950
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    The Sound of Fury

    The Sound of Fury

    6.5 1950 HD

    A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.

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  • 1953
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    Laxdale Hall

    Laxdale Hall

    6 1953 HD

    A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their...

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  • 1947
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    Odd Man Out

    Odd Man Out

    7.31 1947 HD

    Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

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  • 1949
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    Give Us This Day

    Give Us This Day

    5.9 1949 HD

    Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in...

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  • 1955
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    Captain Lightfoot

    Captain Lightfoot

    6.3 1955 HD

    In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets...

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  • 1949
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    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus

    5.7 1949 HD

    Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is...

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  • 1948
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    Esther Waters

    Esther Waters

    5.9 1948 HD

    Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's...

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  • 1950
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    Prelude to Fame

    Prelude to Fame

    6.2 1950 HD

    While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine, becomes...

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  • 1956
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    Jacqueline

    Jacqueline

    6 1956 HD

    Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from...

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  • 1947
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    Captain Boycott

    Captain Boycott

    6.5 1947 HD

    Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt....

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  • 1953
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    The Yellow Balloon

    The Yellow Balloon

    5.6 1953 HD

    A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.

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  • 1957
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    Sail Into Danger

    Sail Into Danger

    1 1957 HD

    In this adventure, an American is forced by smugglers to sail his boat from Barcelona to Tangiers. The ruthless fugitives then kill his son, and harm...

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