Nobody else seethed like the great American character actor Robert Ryan. In more than 75 films, including The Naked Spur, Bad Day at Black Rock and The Wild Bunch, Ryan was fatalistic at best, enraged at worst—God’s angry man. It was a 180-degree deviation from his off-screen devotion to liberal pacifist causes, including a progressive school he co-founded with his Quaker wife and largely financed. J.R. Jones’s scrupulous, well-researched biography, The Lives of Robert Ryan (Wesleyan Unive


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