Irene Ryan

Irene Ryan

Before becoming known to millions as Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Irene Ryan was already an established vaudeville, radio and movie actress, though not as famous prior to her television stint. She accompanied Bob Hope on his famous military tours and she was known as "the gal who makes Bob Hope laugh." After being cast as Granny, she became famous overnight. When the Hillbillies ended, she co-starred in the Broadway musical 'Pippin' with Ben Vereen. Unfortunately, despite wonderful reviews from critics, Ryan took ill, was discovered to have an inoperable brain tumor and died soon after at the age of 70.

  • Title: Irene Ryan
  • Popularity: 7.451
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1902-10-17
  • Place of Birth: El Paso, Texas, USA
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  • Also Known As: Irene Noblett, Reenie, Irene Noblitt, Irene Noblette
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Irene Ryan Movies

  • 1936
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    Peaceful Relations

    Peaceful Relations

    1 1936 HD

    An Educational Pictures comedy starring the husband and wife team of Tim and Irene Ryan.

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  • 1947
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    The Woman on the Beach

    The Woman on the Beach

    5.967 1947 HD

    A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.

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  • 1946
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    The Diary of a Chambermaid

    The Diary of a Chambermaid

    6.258 1946 HD

    Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr....

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  • 1966
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    Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title

    Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title

    3.5 1966 HD

    A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.

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  • 1945
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    That's the Spirit

    That's the Spirit

    4 1945 HD

    A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.

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  • 1944
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    San Diego I Love You

    San Diego I Love You

    6.3 1944 HD

    A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.

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  • 1945
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    That Night with You

    That Night with You

    1 1945 HD

    In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the...

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  • 1948
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    Arch of Triumph

    Arch of Triumph

    5.9 1948 HD

    In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such...

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  • 1952
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    Bonzo Goes to College

    Bonzo Goes to College

    5 1952 HD

    When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him college.

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  • 1952
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    Blackbeard, the Pirate

    Blackbeard, the Pirate

    5.8 1952 HD

    Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

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  • 1951
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    Half Angel

    Half Angel

    5.6 1951 HD

    Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative...

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  • 1957
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    Spring Reunion

    Spring Reunion

    5.8 1957 HD

    A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.

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  • 1947
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    Heading for Heaven

    Heading for Heaven

    5.1 1947 HD

    A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't...

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  • 1951
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    Meet Me After the Show

    Meet Me After the Show

    5 1951 HD

    A Broadway star devises a scheme to win back her husband when she suspects he's being unfaithful.

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  • 1943
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    Melody Parade

    Melody Parade

    1 1943 HD

    The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.

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  • 1948
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    Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

    Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

    6 1948 HD

    Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and...

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  • 1943
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    Sarong Girl

    Sarong Girl

    1 1943 HD

    A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.

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  • 1952
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    The WAC From Walla Walla

    The WAC From Walla Walla

    1 1952 HD

    An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army.

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  • 1943
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    Reveille with Beverly

    Reveille with Beverly

    7 1943 HD

    Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a...

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  • 1944
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    Hot Rhythm

    Hot Rhythm

    4.7 1944 HD

    Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to...

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  • 1949
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    Mighty Joe Young

    Mighty Joe Young

    6.318 1949 HD

    A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to...

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  • 1935
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    One Big Happy Family

    One Big Happy Family

    1 1935 HD

    When Tim Ryan's leading lady walks out in a small hillbilly town, the leading lady he selects -- at gunpoint -- is dumb bell Irene Ryan.

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  • 1936
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    The Wacky Family

    The Wacky Family

    1 1936 HD

    Tim has just been promoted to sales manager and his boss says he will be out to visit Tim and Irene in their new country home to see how his...

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  • 1936
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    Just Plain Folks

    Just Plain Folks

    1 1936 HD

    In a burlesque of the radio program "One Man's Family", Tim pays a visit to his fiancée, Irene Carr, to meet her family. He is ignored,...

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  • 1960
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    Desire in the Dust

    Desire in the Dust

    4 1960 HD

    Lonnie Wilson returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an automobile...

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  • 1950
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    The Skipper Surprised His Wife

    The Skipper Surprised His Wife

    4.7 1950 HD

    A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.

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  • 1948
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    My Dear Secretary

    My Dear Secretary

    5.9 1948 HD

    A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon...

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  • 1937
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    The Big Courtship

    The Big Courtship

    1 1937 HD

    An Educational Pictures short starring Tim and Irene Ryan.

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  • 1937
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    His Pest Girl

    His Pest Girl

    1 1937 HD

    Tim Ryan teams with his wife, Irene, playing a salesman who runs into a saleswoman with an identical sales case.

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  • 1943
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    The Sultan's Daughter

    The Sultan's Daughter

    3 1943 HD

    A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.

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  • 1943
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    O, My Darling Clementine

    O, My Darling Clementine

    1 1943 HD

    "Dapper Dan" Franklin and his small troupe of actors become stranded in the small town of Harmony, Tennessee. The town is shackled by Blue Laws...

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  • 1945
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    The Beautiful Cheat

    The Beautiful Cheat

    1 1945 HD

    The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the...

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  • 1949
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    There's a Girl in My Heart

    There's a Girl in My Heart

    1 1949 HD

    A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and...

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  • 1941
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    Melody for Three

    Melody for Three

    5 1941 HD

    Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music teacher. His interest isn't just in the boy's...

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  • 1957
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    Rockabilly Baby

    Rockabilly Baby

    6 1957 HD

    The mysterious Mrs. Eleanor Carter moves to Springville with her two teenage children Jimmy and Cathy. Eleanor makes friends with the town's social...

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  • 1943
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    Hold Your Temper

    Hold Your Temper

    1 1943 HD

    When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.

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  • 1954
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    Ricochet Romance

    Ricochet Romance

    7 1954 HD

    Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown dude ranch, Marjorie forces...

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  • 1946
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    Little Iodine

    Little Iodine

    3 1946 HD

    Little Iodine does her best to break up the marriage of her parents, ruin a romance and cost her father his job.

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  • 1949
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    An Old-Fashioned Girl

    An Old-Fashioned Girl

    1 1949 HD

    A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find their fortunes turning.

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  • 1937
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    Will You Stop?

    Will You Stop?

    1 1937 HD

    Tim (Tim Ryan) has written what he thinks is a great skit about Antony and Cleopatra for the department store's annual employee show, but the boss...

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  • 1961
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    Mister Ed

    Mister Ed

    6.7 1961 HD

    Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his...

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  • 1960
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    My Three Sons

    My Three Sons

    6.5 1960 HD

    A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An...

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  • 1962
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    The Beverly Hillbillies

    The Beverly Hillbillies

    6.9 1962 HD

    Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of...

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  • 1963
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    Petticoat Junction

    Petticoat Junction

    5.871 1963 HD

    The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.

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  • 1962
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    5.6 1962 HD

    The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC,...

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    6 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1960
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    Bringing Up Buddy

    Bringing Up Buddy

    1 1960 HD

    Bringing Up Buddy is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS during the 1960–1961 season.

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  • 1964
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    The Hollywood Palace

    The Hollywood Palace

    4.5 1964 HD

    The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970....

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  • 1970
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    The Don Knotts Show

    The Don Knotts Show

    1 1970 HD

    The Don Knotts Show was a variety program aired by NBC as part of its 1970-71 lineup. Long relegated to the role of sidekick, which he had portrayed...

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  • 1957
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    The Real McCoys

    The Real McCoys

    5.7 1957 HD

    The Real McCoys is an American situation comedy co-produced by Danny Thomas' "Marterto Productions", in association with Walter Brennan and Irving...

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  • 1965
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    The Dean Martin Show

    The Dean Martin Show

    7.3 1965 HD

    The Dean Martin Show, also known as The Dean Martin Variety Show, is a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was...

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  • 1955
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    Matinee Theater

    Matinee Theater

    4.6 1955 HD

    Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily...

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  • 1954
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    The Whistler

    The Whistler

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1950
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    The Bob Hope Show

    The Bob Hope Show

    7 1950 HD

    The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night...

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  • 1957
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    Alcoa Theatre

    Alcoa Theatre

    6.2 1957 HD

    Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16,...

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  • 1963
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    The Danny Kaye Show

    The Danny Kaye Show

    6.3 1963 HD

    The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963 to 1967 on Wednesday nights. Directed by Robert...

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  • 1969
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    Love, American Style

    Love, American Style

    5.8 1969 HD

    An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories...

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  • 1966
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    Best of The Dean Martin Variety Show

    Best of The Dean Martin Variety Show

    1 1966 HD

    Dean Martin at his best, each episodes is a combination of extracted performances compiled by the Dean Martin Show's director, Greg Garrison for a...

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