1. Mitchell Ryan played the villainous General Peter McAllister in the 1987 buddy cop action film Lethal Weapon.
15 Facts About Mitchell Ryan
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Mitchell Ryan's father was a salesman and his mother was a writer.
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Mitchell Ryan served in the United States Navy during the Korean War.
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Mitchell Ryan was an original cast member of the cult TV soap opera Dark Shadows, playing Burke Devlin until he was dismissed from the show in June 1967 due to his alcoholism, and replaced by Anthony George.
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In 1970, Mitchell Ryan was in one episode of The High Chaparral as a character named Jelks, who was on the run from the law.
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Mitchell Ryan appeared in an episode of Cannon, "Fool's Gold" in 1971, and in ABC's The Streets of San Francisco episode "The Unicorn".
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Mitchell Ryan portrayed the title character, Chase Reddick, on the crime drama Chase.
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In 1975, Mitchell Ryan played in Barnaby Jones, in the episode titled "Counterfall".
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Mitchell Ryan portrayed Cooper Hawkins on the Western series The Chisholms, Sam Garrett on King's Crossing Brennan Flannery on High Performance, Edward Wyler on Hot Pursuit, and Porter Tremont on 2000 Malibu Road.
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Mitchell Ryan appeared in NBC's The A-Team; he played Ike Hagan, as Grant Everett in a two-part Silk Stalkings episode; and as Kyle Riker, the father of Commander William Riker, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Icarus Factor"; Mitchell Ryan had been considered for the part of series lead Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
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Mitchell Ryan portrayed the roles of the abusive boyfriend of Blanche Devereaux, Rex Huntington, in The Golden Girls episode "The Bloom is off the Rose", and a police officer in a 1993 episode of NYPD Blue.
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Mitchell Ryan appeared in the 1983 episode of Hart to Hart 'Highland Fling'.
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Mitchell Ryan was the president of Screen Actors Guild Foundation.
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Mitchell Ryan married Lynda Morse in 1972, and they had a son.
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Mitchell Ryan died of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, California, on March 4,2022, at the age of 88.