FILE - Actor Lee Marvin, proper, and his spouse, Pamela, go to with Mitchell Ryan, star of Arthur Miller's play "The Value," backstage on the Playhouse Theater in New York in July 1979. (AP Picture/Dan Grossi)
LOS ANGELES --
Mitchell Ryan, who performed a villainous normal within the first "Deadly Weapon" film, a ruthless businessman on TV's "Santa Barbara" and had character roles on the cleaning soap opera "Darkish Shadows" and the Nineteen Nineties sitcom "Dharma & Greg," died Friday. He was 88.
Ryan died of congestive coronary heart failure at his Los Angeles residence, his stepdaughter, Denise Freed, advised the Hollywood Reporter.
Rugged, granite-jawed and sporting a smooth mane of hair, Ryan was immediately recognizable on TV and the large display screen. His profession spanned greater than a half-century, starting with an uncredited function within the 1958 Robert Mitchum movie "Thunder Street."
He was a general-turned heroin smuggler in "Deadly Weapon," police officer in "Magnum Pressure" and "Electra Glide in Blue," and the conniving, murderous Las Vegas businessman Anthony Tonell within the nighttime TV cleaning soap opera "Santa Barbara."
Within the Nineteen Nineties, he had a long-running function as Greg's rich, eccentric and boozy father on "Dharma & Greg."
Ryan performed Burke Devlin on the cult Sixties cleaning soap opera "Darkish Shadows" for one season however he was fired due to his alcoholism.
Ryan acknowledged his ingesting points in his 2021 autobiography, "Fall of a Sparrow."
"I am blessed that, 30 years a drunk, I've managed to stay a working actor's life to be envied. And I've lived quite a lot of actual life whereas I used to be at it," he wrote. "Sober for the subsequent 30 years, I am advised that I've come out of all of it an excellent and helpful human being."
Ryan had roles on many TV exhibits and in films starting from "Excessive Plains Drifter" with Clint Eastwood to "Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers."
He additionally carried out within the theater, together with Broadway appearances in "Wait Till Darkish," "Medea" and "The Value."
"He was an excellent present in my life," Kathryn Leigh Scott, who appeared with him in "Darkish Shadows," stated in a Fb put up. "I cherish my heat reminiscences of his stunning soul. I am heartbroken."
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