Ryan's brother, Yves Ryan, was also politically active, serving as mayor of Montreal North from 1963 to 2001.

In his role in Sleepless in Seattle, Pierce played the brother of Meg Ryan's character, a professor at Johns Hopkins University.

At the beginning of the third season, Julie's daughter Marissa is facing possible conviction after shooting Ryan's brother Trey Atwood in order to save Ryan.

Ryan's brother Jimmy died at age 10, and his mother, Elizabeth, ran out on them shortly after (" Scarecrow ," " The Prophecies ").

His middle brother, Harvey, is responsible for the loss of Ryan ’ s left eye after murdering Morgan, Ryan's eldest brother.

She recently had to choose between two men, Gordon Bullit and Frank Atwood ( Ryan's father ) on Valentine's Day.

The man is revealed to be Ryan's father, Frank Atwood, whom Sandy meets.

One of Ryan's companions, Sammy " Sam " Slade, try to attack the monster with a shotgun, but he gets eaten by the monster.

Sophie gets annoyed when Sian goes round to Ryan's house as he saved her life, but Sophie thinks it's because she wants to get back with him.

With no information about Ryan's whereabouts, Miller and his men move out to Neuville.

On August 22, 1989, he became Nolan Ryan's 5, 000th strikeout victim, but Henderson took an odd delight in the occurrence, saying, " If you haven't been struck out by Nolan Ryan, you're nobody.

Ryan's very durable arm finally gave out in Seattle on September 22, 1993, when he tore a ligament, ending his career two starts earlier than planned.

Ryan's last start was his career worst ; he allowed a single, four walks, and a grand slam in the top of the first without recording an out.

After the publicity surrounding Mrs. Ryan's extradition, the United States government established ( 1979 ) a U. S. DOJ Office of Special Investigations to seek out war criminals to denaturalize or deport.

Pratt defended the story and said what they have " isn't a relationship that's borne out of anything except true respect and a growing affection for each other as Erica becomes Ryan's pillar of support.

According to Filmways Publicist Ted Switzer, series creator and producer Paul Henning had decided to cast Bea Benaderet as Granny ; however, when Ryan read for the role, “ with her hair tied back in a bun and feisty as all get out, she just blew everyone away .” Al Simon ( executive producer ) and Henning immediately said: “ That ’ s Granny .” Later when Benaderet saw Ryan's tryout, she agreed.

Ryan's assignment included training Khmer Rouge troops in 1981 to attack Vietnamese forces that had pushed them out of Cambodia.

Major Werner Pluskat, who was featured in Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day, was in the 352nd Artillery ( Artillerie Abteilung ) and fired his guns on Omaha Beach until he ran out of ammunition.

After nine rounds, Sullivan knocked Paddy Ryan out with a right-handed punch which landed under Ryan's left ear.

Steve and Ryan's mother Michelle ( Kym Ryder ) catch them trying to put out the fire.

While talking out the back, a match that Ryan throw out sets fire to Steve's curtains and as they try to put out the fire Ryan's mother Michelle ( Kym Marsh ) walks in and takes Ryan home.

In Clash's wild kingdom, strong women can only be sated by the threat of male violence: After she marries sturdy lug Paul Douglas, Stanwyck is unerringly drawn towards Ryan's volatile woman-hater, while fish-canner Marilyn Monroe shows her affection to fiance Keith Andes by socking him in the arm, a gesture he threatens to return in spades.

Despite the efforts of Kealty, various members of his administration and Pavel Laska, Kealty's kingmaker and a devout enemy of Ryan who sought to bring Ryan's administration down by connecting him to a then-fugitive John Clark, Ryan wins the election by a narrow margin ; overcoming all of Kealty's efforts to harm him.

Not long after, Palumbo, Beck and Manny conducted an exclusive video interview for Glassjaw. net on Ryan's Rock Show, where the band stated that the long absence of released material was due to " decisions we made when we were 21 years old ," alluding to a possible legal / contractual dispute with either Roadrunner or most likely with their previous / current label, Warner Bros.

At sixteen years old, Chwatt got a job as an entertaining bellhop at Ryan's Tavern in City Island, Bronx.

Ryan's mother, Lucinda Fortune Ryan, died in 1856 when he was five years old.

The museum covers the entire life and sports career of Nolan Ryan, and includes a machine that lets the visitor feel what it is like to catch one of Nolan Ryan's pitches.

* In the novel Patriot Games and the eponymous film, terrorist Sean Miller is tried in the Old Bailey for the attempted kidnapping of the Prince & Princess of Wales ( which killed two guards ), and sentenced to life in prison after Jack Ryan's testimony ( Ryan foiled the plot by disabling Miller and killing another terrorist with Miller's gun ).

In the days following the massacre, the British tabloid press was filled with stories about Ryan's life.

Callaghan's friend Ernest Hemingway had also considered writing a novel based on Ryan's life.

Liza charges Erica with attempted murder, disregarding the fact that Erica only did it to save Ryan's life.

The dedication page in Forty Eight Minutes, one of Ryan's books, says, " To Elaine Ryan: In the next life, maybe you'll get a nine-to-five man who makes seven figures.

Eventually, Jia and Ryan parted, and she ended up marrying the local football jock, Alvin, a guy who at high school did his best to make Ryan's life miserable.

In the first season finale, Kirsten hints to Theresa Diaz, Ryan's pregnant ex-girlfriend, that she had an abortion early in her life.

It is in this house that Seth and Ryan's sister, Sophie Rose, starts her life.

At the library, Cordelia finds a picture of Ryan's monster on the cover of a book ; they learn that it is called Der Kindestod ( German: ' the child's death '), a demon that absorbs the life force of sickly children, making it seem that they died of their illness.

The sexually frustrated Todd still lives in the basement of his parents ' house, works in a video store, and secretly envies Ryan's married life.

Exterior shots, once a rarity, were slowly incorporated into the series Ryan's Hope.

After crippling the US economy and becoming a nuclear power, Japan invades and takes the Marianas Islands ; the US and Japan fight a brief war, which the Japanese lose ( they are subsequently denuclearized ); an embittered Japanese pilot and proponent of the war crashes a 747 into the US Capitol Building immediately after Ryan's confirmation as Vice President, killing most of the House and Senate, the President, all nine Supreme Court justices, the senior military establishment ( including the JCS ), and most of the Cabinet.

One night, in the midst of a fierce storm, IRB leader Tim O ' Leary ( Barry Foster )– who had killed a police constable earlier – and a small band of comrades arrive in Ryan's pub and strong-arm him into helping them recover a shipment of German arms from the storm.

Ryan's own mother, Dorothy, then drove into South View and she was confronted by the sight of her house on fire, her armed son and dead and injured strewn along the street.

Further up Priory Avenue, a 51-year-old handyman named Eric Vardy and his passenger, Steven Ball, drove into Ryan's path while travelling en route to a job in Vardy's Leyland Sherpa.

A clever plan to accelerate the peace process is put into action, based on Jack Ryan's indirect contact with the Vatican.

In the opening line of Robert Wise's 1959 film Odds Against Tomorrow which tackled issues of racism, Robert Ryan's character picks up a young black girl after she bumps into him and says, " You little pickaninny, you're gonna kill yourself flying like that.

After Ryan's departure to the Houston Astros at the end of the season, the team's pitching faltered in, and the club dropped back into sixth place in their division ; Fregosi was replaced in the first half of the season.

Barr broke into soap operas with a short stint as bad girl Reenie Szabo on the now-defunct Ryan's Hope.

Leading 11-7 deep into the second half, Ryan's Jets were eventually overrun 20-11 by a Parramatta Eels team that featured some of the 1980s greatest players.

Effectively, the players were split into two camps: Ryan's outsiders and the family club's disciples.

After a brief cat and mouse game, Ryan, wounded, notices that Ethan has circled behind Mooney, and helps Mooney by calling Ethan's cell phone ( revealing that Ryan's phone somehow was not water damaged after his jumping into the river ).

Meanwhile, Ryan's friends sneak into the gazelle exhibit.

Using her knowledge about Ryan, she helped Chronos into faking a mail correspondence with Ryan, giving him the shrinking belt he eventually used to become the Atom, but planting the seeds of his downfall, trapping part of the denizens of Ivy Town in a microverse held in strange viral constructs hidden in Ryan's bloodstream.

In an interview on Ryan's Rock Show, drummer Jason Trabue stated that Grabelle added Hopesfall to Warped Tour in 2005, then two weeks into the tour, Grabelle stopped paying for the bus.

He then moved into drama, directing non-fiction made-for-television films such as The One That Got Away, based on Chris Ryan's book about SAS actions in the Gulf War, and The Fix, based on the story of the betting scandal which shook British football in 1964.