Part Deux, among many other credits.
Ryan’s longtime agent confirmed his death to EW.
His stepdaughter, Denise Freed, toldThe Hollywood Reporterthat he died of congestive heart failure.
Mitchell Ryan, whose credits included ‘Lethal Weapon’ and ‘Dharma & Greg,’ has died.James Sorensen/20th Century Fox Film Corp./Courtesy Everett Collection
He also appeared in movies includingLiar Liar,Hot Shots!
Part Deux, andGrosse Pointe Blank.
He later quit drinking.
And I’ve lived a great deal of real life while I was at it.
He also appeared on Broadway in the playsWait Until Dark,Medea, andThe Price.
“Today a man becomes an actor by going to university and studying his craft.
I came up in a different time,” Ryan wrote inFall of a Sparrow.
“I found my way in the school of hard knocks and the university that is the theater itself.
It was a different time.
A young man became an actor because someone thought he had the right look for a part.
And he wasn’t doing something else just then.
Or anything else, really, ever.
And he stayed an actor because, remarkably, he was good at it.”
