<P>The Lives of Robert Ryan provides an inside look at the gifted, complex, intensely private man whom Martin Scorsese called «one of the greatest actors in the history of American film.» The son of a Chicago construction executive with strong ties to the Democratic machine, Ryan became a star after World War II on the strength of his menacing performance as an anti-Semitic murderer in the film noir Crossfire. Over the next quarter century he created a gallery of brooding,...
