Paul Bryar

Highlighted works

A former detective with a fear of heights is hired to follow a woman apparently possessed by the past, in Alfred Hitchcock’s timeless thriller about obsession.

The Night of the Hunter

Actor Charles Laughton’s only film as a director is a complete one-off, a terrifying parable of the corruption of innocence featuring a career-best performance from Robert Mitchum.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

As much a buddy movie as a western, William Goldman’s script keeps Paul Newman and Robert Redford well supplied with wry lines and double takes.

In one of Hitchcock’s darkest thrillers, a traitor’s daughter is engaged by an American agent to get close to one of her father’s Nazi associates.

Filmography

1938

Tenth Avenue Kid Wheeler
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife [radio announcer]

1939

The Roaring Twenties [second gangster]

1940

Marked Men Joe Mallon
Hold That Woman! cast member

1942

Criminal Investigator Powers
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon [waiter]
Spy Smasher Lawlor
Junior g-men of the Air oriental chemist
Mississippi Gambler Evans
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack Bauer

1946

Lady Chaser cast member
Notorious [reporter]
The Razor's Edge [Frenchman]

1947

Three on a Ticket cast member

1948

Campus Sleuth Houser
Walk a Crooked Mile [Ivan]
Rogues' Regiment [chief of police in Saigon]
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes guard

1949

Follow Me Quietly [Sgt Bryce]
The Judge Steps Out [customer]

1950

Under My Skin cast member
Armored Car Robbery Duncan
The Petty Girl [police sergeant]
The Toast of New Orleans [.]

1951

Navy Bound Robert Garrells
Valentino [photographer]

1952

Arctic Flight Hogan
Has Anybody Seen My Gal [man]

1953

Easy to Love Mr. Barnes
Dangerous When Wet Pierre

1954

1955

Prison Break Matt Parker
The Night of the Hunter [Bart, the hangman]
It's Always Fair Weather headwaiter
Rebel without a Cause [desk sergeant]

1956

Cry Justice cast member
Tea and Sympathy [Alex]

1957

Teenage Thunder Bert Morrison
Silk Stockings [reporter]

1958

Lady on the Loose cast member
Vertigo [Detective Captain Hansen]
Gunman's Walk [bartender]

1959

And When the Sky Was Opened cast member

1960

Squad Car Lt. Beck
Ocean's Eleven [police officer with Louis]

1961

Saintly Sinners Duke
44 Tickets [patrolman]

1962

The Maggie Storm Story racketeer

1963

Trial at Devil's Canyon Doc
Age of Consent Ben Ritchie
Man's Favorite Sport? bartender at rotating bar

1964

The Quick Gun Mitchell

1965

Blood Harvest sergeant Burrell

1969

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid card player 1

1971

Encore hospital cop

1975

Funny Lady Cleaning Man

1979

One That Got Away Talbot

1980

A Change of Seasons Man at Table

1983

Heart Like a Wheel Matt, Card Player

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Joey Shows the Way Mr. Edwards