Steve Ryan (Acting)

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Works

6.2

Entry Level

After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. Clay and his fellow job-seekers strive for dignity, success, or at least a job taking customer service calls from prison inmates for minimum wage. A hilarious, insightful look at job interviews, finding the courage to start all over, and life at the ENTRY LEVEL.

Release Date: 2007-01-01

Character: Bob

Vote Count: 4

5.4

Silver Bells

Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.

Release Date: 2005-11-27

Character: Father

Vote Count: 27

Center of the Universe
7.0

Center of the Universe

Center of the Universe is a television series on CBS, which ran from October 27, 2004, until January 19, 2005. The sitcom was canceled after just 10 episodes aired. It was set in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. John Goodman starred as John Barnett, a good-natured and successful operator of a security company. The series involved the dependency of his entire family on John for everything -- money, jobs, housing, and personal guidance in every decision. Tagline: "The world doesn't revolve around John...but his family does." A total of 15 episodes were produced.

Release Date: 2004-10-27

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Boston Legal
7.9

Boston Legal

Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.

Release Date: 2004-10-03

Character: Special Agent Kevin Drummond

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 327

Arrested Development
7.9

Arrested Development

The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.

Release Date: 2003-11-02

Character: J. Walter Weatherman

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 1419

Cold Case
7.8

Cold Case

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.

Release Date: 2003-09-28

Character: Butch Rinaldi (2003)

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 398

Las Vegas
7.0

Las Vegas

Ed Deline is a strict ex-CIA officer who went from being Head of Security to becoming President of Operations of the Montecito, whose job is to run the day-to-day operations of the casino. Following his departure, former Marine Danny McCoy, Ed's former protégé, becomes the Montecito's new President of Operations.

Release Date: 2003-09-22

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 223

Still Standing
6.9

Still Standing

After 18 years of marriage, high school sweethearts Bill and Judy Miller still make each other laugh and try to keep their marriage intact, even when their family pulls them in different directions. Since Bill has a far more immature approach to marriage and raising their three children than Judy does, they work at striking a balance and remembering why they love each other, quirks and all.

Release Date: 2002-09-30

Character: Security Guard

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 57

American Dreams
5.1

American Dreams

Release Date: 2002-09-29

Character: Father Conti

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 13

Without a Trace
7.3

Without a Trace

The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.

Release Date: 2002-09-26

Character: Michael Posey

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 257

CSI: Miami
7.7

CSI: Miami

CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.

Release Date: 2002-09-23

Character: Morris Yates

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1611

George Lopez
7.6

George Lopez

George raises daughter Carmen and dyslexic son Max with his wife Angie, after surviving a miserable, dysfunctional childhood at the hands of his neglectful alcoholic mother Benny.

Release Date: 2002-03-27

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 89

Reba
6.6

Reba

After her dentist husband of 20 years leaves her for his dental hygienist, Reba Hart's seemingly perfect world is turned upside down.​

Release Date: 2001-10-05

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 96

Crossing Jordan
7.2

Crossing Jordan

Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Release Date: 2001-09-24

Character: Boston Fire Chief

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 147

Six Feet Under
8.1

Six Feet Under

When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.

Release Date: 2001-06-03

Character: Matthew Heath Collins

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 971

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
7.6

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.

Release Date: 2000-10-06

Character: Sergeant Adams

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 1272

Strong Medicine
7.1

Strong Medicine

The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.

Release Date: 2000-07-23

Character: Fire Chief

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 13

Daddio
3.0

Daddio

Daddio is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from March 23 to October 23, 2000. Created by Matt Berry and Ric Swartzwelder, the series starred Michael Chiklis and Anita Barone.

Release Date: 2000-03-23

Character: Bobick

Episode Count: 18

Vote Count: 1

6.0

Mary and Rhoda

The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.

Release Date: 2000-02-07

Character: Father

Vote Count: 3

Third Watch
7.9

Third Watch

The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.

Release Date: 1999-09-23

Character: Demolition Team Leader Phil

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 212

The West Wing
8.2

The West Wing

The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.

Release Date: 1999-09-22

Character: Miles Hutchinson

Episode Count: 16

Vote Count: 499

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.9

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Release Date: 1999-09-20

Character: Hank the Bartender

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3882

Will & Grace
6.8

Will & Grace

Will Truman and Grace Adler are best friends living in New York, and when Grace's engagement falls apart, she moves in with Will. Together, along with their friends, they go through the trials of dating, sex, relationships and their careers, butting heads at times but ultimately supporting one another while exchanging plenty of witty banter along the way.

Release Date: 1998-09-21

Character: Lieutenant

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 496

Oz
8.0

Oz

The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.

Release Date: 1997-07-12

Character: Officer Mike Healy

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 752

The Practice
7.7

The Practice

A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”

Release Date: 1997-03-04

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 103

5.6

I'm Not Rappaport

Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.

Release Date: 1996-12-24

Character: Harry

Vote Count: 30

Spin City
7.0

Spin City

Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.

Release Date: 1996-09-17

Character: Fred

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 297

7th Heaven
6.4

7th Heaven

Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie have always had their hands full caring for seven children, not to mention the friends, sweethearts and spouses that continually come and go in the Camden household.

Release Date: 1996-08-26

Character: Mr. Medlock

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 200

New York News

New York News

New York News is a newspaper drama which was broadcast in the United States by CBS as part of its 1995 fall lineup.

Release Date: 1995-09-28

Episode Count: 1

New York Undercover
7.1

New York Undercover

New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases.

Release Date: 1994-09-08

Character: Dave Cooper

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 34

7.3

Quiz Show

Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.

Release Date: 1994-08-25

Character: NBC Employee (Uncredited)

Vote Count: 909

The X-Files
8.4

The X-Files

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

Release Date: 1993-09-10

Character: Sheriff Jack Coogan

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3163

Blockbusters
7.8

Blockbusters

Blockbusters is a British television game show based upon the American game show of the same name in which contestants answer trivia questions to complete a path across or down a game board of hexagons.

Release Date: 1993-08-29

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 4

Homicide: Life on the Street
8.0

Homicide: Life on the Street

An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

Release Date: 1993-01-31

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 130

10.0

Guys and Dolls: Off the Record

A behind-the-scenes look at the cast-album recording session of the 1992 Tony-winning Broadway revival of the Frank Loesser musical. Originally broadcast as part of the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 21, episode 4).

Release Date: 1992-12-07

Character: Himself / Lt. Brannigan

Vote Count: 1

A Touch of Frost
7.5

A Touch of Frost

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

Release Date: 1992-12-06

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 67

Law & Order
7.4

Law & Order

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

Release Date: 1990-09-13

Character: Sid Fisher

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 600

5.2

Money, Power, Murder.

Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has interest in a missing anchorwoman's story.

Release Date: 1989-12-10

Character: Little John

Vote Count: 2

Wiseguy
6.5

Wiseguy

Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.

Release Date: 1987-09-16

Character: Mark Volchek

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 31

6.0

Three Wishes for Jamie

Adapted from Charles O'Neal's 1949 book, this follows the lighthearted adventures of a late 19th Century young man named Jamie McGrew, the three wishes granted to him in a dream by a fairy queen, and the unusual way they come true. His first is for travel (he goes from Ireland to a life of horse trading in Georgia); his second, to marry the girl of his dreams; the third, a son with the gift of poetry and the ability to speak in the ancient Gaelic tongue.

Release Date: 1987-03-09

Character: Shanahan Brother

Vote Count: 1

Crime Story
7.9

Crime Story

The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.

Release Date: 1986-09-19

Character: Det. Nate Grossman

Episode Count: 43

Vote Count: 68

8.3

Crime Story: Pilot

One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.

Release Date: 1986-09-18

Character: Det. Nate Grossman

Vote Count: 3

6.4

D.A.R.Y.L.

Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.

Release Date: 1985-06-14

Character: Howie Fox

Vote Count: 336

Miami Vice
7.4

Miami Vice

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.

Release Date: 1984-09-16

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 437

Teachers Only
5.0

Teachers Only

Teachers Only is an NBC television sitcom centered around the faculty of a high school; in the first season the school was Millard Fillmore High in Los Angeles, but in the second it is Woodrow Wilson High in New York with a changed cast. In both seasons Norman Fell played Principal Ben Cooper, but Lynn Redgrave's character, Diana Swanson, who had been an English teacher in the first season, became a guidance counselor in the second season. Redgrave and Fell were already established names when this show aired, but two of the supporting stars in the second season, Jean Smart would go on, three years later, to play her best known role, that of interior design studio receptionist Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the long running show, Designing Women. Also, Jean's co-star Teresa Ganzel became well known for her many game show appearances in the 1980s as well as her appearance in the comedic miniseries, Fresno. This show ran for only two seasons, in 1982 and 1983.

Release Date: 1982-04-14

Character: Spud Le Boone

Episode Count: 14

Vote Count: 1

Riker
5.0

Riker

Riker is an American crime drama television series that aired from March 14 until April 11, 1981.

Release Date: 1981-03-14

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

5.9

Night of the Juggler

An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.

Release Date: 1980-06-06

Character: Fifth Avenue Cop #1

Vote Count: 19

5.7

Attica

Acclaimed dramatization recreating the incidents surrounding the 1971 revolt in New York's Attica State Prison that lasted for 23 days and resulted in the greatest casualty toll between Americans since the Civil War.

Release Date: 1980-03-02

Character: Paul Michaels

Vote Count: 14

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