Paul Ryan obit

Paul Ryan, Actor, Celebrity Interviewer and TV Host, Dies at 69

His credits include 'Night Court,' 'Entertainment Tonight' and 'Legends From Here.' 

He was not on the list.

Paul Ryan, an actor, producer and TV host, died Thursday of leukemia at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. He was 69.

Ryan, who served as a Hollywood correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, recently hosted the Here TV series Legends From Here, which featured interviews with Rock Hudson, Shelley Winters and Kylie Minogue, among others.

He also hosted a “Celebrity Master Class” series for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, interviewing the likes of Diahann Carroll, Burt Reynolds and George Hamilton, and had a business coaching and training people seeking to become actors and TV hosts.

Ryan’s work as an actor included small roles on such TV shows as Bewitched, Emergency!, Mission: Impossible, Night Court, Murder, She Wrote and Desperate Housewives and such films as Coma (1978) and The Promise (1979) and Star 80 (1983).

He produced A BraveHeart View for the Internet channel Conscious TV and wrote a book, The Art of Comedy: Getting Serious About Being Funny, published in 2007.

Survivors include his mother, Joyce. A memorial will be held at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries in the Hollywood Hills.

 

Actor

Comedy Bang! Bang! (2012)

Comedy Bang! Bang!

Barry GoldfarbWink Martindale

TV Series

2012

2 episodes

 

Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, and Eva Longoria in Desperate Housewives (2004)

Desperate Housewives

Bruce

TV Series

2009

1 episode

 

Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote (1984)

Murder, She Wrote

Entertainment ReporterCommentatorTed Lafferty

TV Series

1984–1992

3 episodes

 

High Strung (1992)

High Strung

Game Show Host

1992

 

Michael Landon in Highway to Heaven (1984)

Highway to Heaven

Gary Fox

TV Series

1985

1 episode

 

Fast Forward (1985)

Fast Forward

Staffer

1985

 

Fatal Vision (1984)

Fatal Vision

Talk Show Host

TV Mini Series

1984

2 episodes

 

Harry Anderson, Selma Diamond, Ellen Foley, John Larroquette, Richard Moll, and Charles Robinson in Night Court (1984)

Night Court

Talk Show Host

TV Series

1984

1 episode

 

Star 80 (1983)

Star 80

Radio Interviewer

1983

 

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

Masten

1981

 

The Last Word (1979)

The Last Word

Denise's Date

1979

 

Kathleen Quinlan and Stephen Collins in The Promise (1979)

The Promise

Doctor Fenton

1979

 

Pat Klous, Connie Sellecca, and Kathryn Witt in Flying High (1978)

Flying High

Reporter

TV Series

1978

1 episode

 

Starhops (1978)

Starhops

Norman

1978

 

Geneviève Bujold in Coma (1978)

Coma

1st Technician

1978

 

Jo Ann Harris, Shelly Novack, and Robert Stack in Most Wanted (1976)

Most Wanted

Bob Webber

TV Series

1976

1 episode

 

Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner in The Affair (1973)

The Affair

Bobbie

TV Movie

1973

 

Buddy Ebsen in Barnaby Jones (1973)

Barnaby Jones

TV Series

1973

1 episode

 

Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Peter Graves, Peter Lupus, and Greg Morris in Mission: Impossible (1966)

Mission: Impossible

Attendant

TV Series

1973

1 episode

 

Emergency! (1972)

Emergency!

George

TV Series

1972

1 episode

 

Goldie Hawn and Edward Albert in Butterflies Are Free (1972)

Butterflies Are Free

Man in Mod Shop (uncredited)

1972

 

"The Smith Family" Janet Blair, Henry Fonda, Darleen Carr, Ron Howard, Michael-James Wixted

The Smith Family

Purse Thief

TV Series

1972

1 episode

 

Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, and Dick York in Bewitched (1964)

Bewitched

Page

TV Series

1971

1 episode

 

The Young Lawyers (1969)

The Young Lawyers

Tim

TV Series

1971

1 episode