Mark Ryan
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Mark Ryan is an English actor, stuntman and voice actor.
He did several major musicals in London's West End, spending four years in Andrew Lloyd Webber
's smash hit Evita originating the role of Magaldi and then playing Ché under the direction of Broadway legend Hal Prince
. He went on to appear in a cameo in the film version of the musical starring Madonna
directed by Alan Parker
. He left Evita to play Mac in the classic SAS action film Who Dares Wins
for director Ian Sharp.
He originated the character of Nasir for the cult British TV series Robin of Sherwood
on which he worked for three years, and has appeared in dozens of films and television series, both in the US and UK.
In 1986, he won critical acclaim for the title role in the musical Elmer Gantry at London's Gate Theatre and followed that with a national tour of the hit show Guys and Dolls, playing the part of Sky Masterson. He returned to the West End
to play Neville Landless in the Tony Award
-winning musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood
and the same year recorded a duet with singing star Tom Jones
on his album Matador. He also appeared in the video to the Gary Moore
single Over the Hills and Far Away from the Wild Frontier
album as the titular character.
and Leporello in Don Giovanni
, both for Music Theatre London directed by Nick Broadhurst, followed by a series of open air concert performances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
. He is also an accomplished author and has written for DC Comics
and Harper Collins as well as writing several screenplays. Ryan was also the co-creator, along with artist Chesca Potter
, of the Greenwood Tarot - a variation on the standard tarot
deck involving pre-historic European imagery.
In 1994, Mark was picked by legendary swordmaster Bob Anderson
to assist as sword coach to Richard Gere
and Ben Cross
in the film First Knight
. Director Jerry Zucker
also asked him to play John Challenger during the filming of this Arthurian epic.
Before moving to Los Angeles in 1997 Ryan guest starred in many classic British TV shows such as: The Bill, Harry, Dempsey and Makepiece, Casualty and Peak Practice. He also appeared in films such as Doomsday Gun
and Nil By Mouth
.
While establishing himself in the US he guest-starred in such TV shows as Frasier
, General Hospital
, Conan The Adventurer, Passions
, Nuremberg and Young and the Restless. He also worked as Fight Coordinator and Swordmaster on The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
and played Gordon in the San Diego Globe Theater's production of Neville's Island.
member Eric Idle
, performing classic British comedy roles in Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python at venues like New York’s famed Carnegie Hall
and the Hollywood Bowl
. The team later recorded the show exclusively for The Comedy Channel. He then went on to play John Dickinson in the Los Angeles stage production of 1776
directed by Gordon Hunt.
He has also guest-starred in such TV shows as JAG
, Real Time with Bill Marr and Alias (TV Series)
and appeared in films such as Charlie's Angels (film)
, Convicted, The Thirst and The Prestige (film)
.
In 2003, Ryan concluded work as a swordmaster and fight director on the film King Arthur
directed by Antoine Fuqua
. His duties included consulting with the director and writer regarding designing all aspects of the Knights fighting styles, training all the principal actors including Keira Knightley
, Clive Owen
and Stellan Skarsgård
, planning and choreographing their action.
He began working on the 2007 film Transformers during filming as the on-set voice of several different robots. This work continued throughout filming and into editing, prior to the actual casting of voice-over talent. He was then cast as the voice of the character Bumblebee. Ryan also voices Ironhide and Hoist for the Activision video game based on the film. When Ryan was in the studio recording his lines for the actors on set, Michael Bay used the lines Ryan recorded for Bumblebee in the film. But Ryan didn't know that it would be used, and if so he said he would have used a different younger voice. He returned to voice Bumblebee as well as Jetfire
for the sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
and the Activision
Game based on the film.
In late 2008, Ryan launched a dramatic musical adaptation of the classic, gothic love-story Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
, narrated by Beowulf
star and Robin of Sherwood
co-star Ray Winstone
. He composed, sang and produced the tracks with Robb Vallier who also worked on Spamalot
. He also directed the video for the song "Women" filmed especially for the website and featuring Jenn Korbee, Jessica Keenan Wynn and Katie Boeck.
In November 2008, the online publisher ComicMix began running Ryan's The Pilgrim, a graphic novel inspired by factual events during WW2 and concerning modern psychic warfare research and drawn by legendary comic artist Mike Grell
. It is believed that elements of the story are based on Ryan's experiences during his service in the Intelligence Corps and Special Forces
community. In early 2009 ComicMix announced an agreement with IDW Publishing
for hardcopy publishing rights of its online projects and IDW announced the publication of The Pilgrim commencing in April on 2010.
In early 2009, Ryan continued voice work on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
working directly with Michael Bay
and Alex Kurtzman
almost right up to the release of the film and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
went on to became one of the biggest grossing films of all time in the US as well as in worldwide box office receipts.
In mid-2009 Ryan also directed the teaser/trailer for Blood Type written by John Matthews
and Wil Kinghan of Mythwood Films. Described as a dark psychological spin on the vampire mythos with a strong gothic element. The trailer was filmed on location at the Atlantis Bookshop in London, world-famous for its occult links with Aleister Crowley
and Denis Wheatley and WW2 esoteric warfare history and continued at The Prebendal, Thame in Oxfordshire, a 12th Century estate and home of The Bee Gees Robin Gibb and his wife; Dwina. The promo trailer for the project was accepted into the BAFTA Members Short Film Showcase for March 2010. He was also featured on the LCD Soundsystem
video Pow Pow (song)
directed by David Ayer
.
During London Book Fair
in April 2009, specialist publisher; Eddison-Sadd presented The Wildwood Tarot, based on the highly successful and cult collector status: Greenwood Tarot authored by Ryan. The Wildwood Tarot is an updated and reworked version of Ryan's original tarot concept, co-written with John Matthews
with artwork by award winning illustrator: Will Worthington. Work began on the project in mid-2009 and The Wildwood Tarot was launched at the Atlantis Bookstore in London in April 2011. Wildwood Tarot remained as the best selling Tarot and Hottest Bestseller on Amazon.com
during the spring of 2011 and has now been translated into German, Dutch, Italian and Fench. The Wildwood Tarot is published in the US by Sterling Publishing
.
In May 2010 Ryan returned to work on Transformers: Dark of the Moon, once again as the onset voice of the Autobots. Work on this third Michael Bay
Blockbuster continued at locations across the US and also at Kennedy Space Center
- Cape Canaveral. The film was shot in 3D with post production voice-work carrying on into the spring of 2011. Ryan contributed several military lines to the final cut of Transformers: Dark of the Moon and was credited as "Military Drone Operator" on the DVD. On release of the film in late June in 2011 it broke box office records all over the world and became the 4th highest earning film in history, grossing over $1.11B. Ryan also completed Bumblebee
lines for the Universal Studios
theme park ride based on the movies in the fall of 2011.
Work began in the summer of 2011 on a new book entitled "Hero Weapons of Film & TV", co-written with John Matthews
.
Biography
Born in Yorkshire, Mark Ryan has been combining his acting, singing, writing and Action Direction talents in an eclectic and successful international career ranging over 30 years.He did several major musicals in London's West End, spending four years in Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
's smash hit Evita originating the role of Magaldi and then playing Ché under the direction of Broadway legend Hal Prince
Hal Prince
Harold Smith Prince is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century...
. He went on to appear in a cameo in the film version of the musical starring Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
directed by Alan Parker
Alan Parker
Sir Alan William Parker, CBE is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British cinema and American cinema and was a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.-Life and career:...
. He left Evita to play Mac in the classic SAS action film Who Dares Wins
Who Dares Wins (film)
Who Dares Wins is a 1982 British film starring Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Richard Widmark and Edward Woodward, directed by Ian Sharp. The title is the motto of the elite Special Air Service ....
for director Ian Sharp.
He originated the character of Nasir for the cult British TV series Robin of Sherwood
Robin of Sherwood
Robin of Sherwood , was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel...
on which he worked for three years, and has appeared in dozens of films and television series, both in the US and UK.
In 1986, he won critical acclaim for the title role in the musical Elmer Gantry at London's Gate Theatre and followed that with a national tour of the hit show Guys and Dolls, playing the part of Sky Masterson. He returned to the West End
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
to play Neville Landless in the Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
-winning musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (musical)
Drood is a musical based on the unfinished Charles Dickens novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. It is written by Rupert Holmes, and was the first Broadway musical with multiple endings . Holmes received Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Original Score...
and the same year recorded a duet with singing star Tom Jones
Tom Jones (singer)
Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...
on his album Matador. He also appeared in the video to the Gary Moore
Gary Moore
Robert William Gary Moore , better known simply as Gary Moore, was a Northern Irish musician from Belfast, best recognised as a blues rock guitarist and singer....
single Over the Hills and Far Away from the Wild Frontier
Wild Frontier
Wild Frontier is a 1987 album by Gary Moore. His first studio album after a trip back to his native Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1985, this album has several songs about Ireland and even the music itself is steeped in Celtic roots. The title track was intended to be sung by Phil Lynott, however...
album as the titular character.
1990s
In 1993, Mark toured Europe and Britain playing Figaro in The Marriage of FigaroThe Marriage of Figaro
Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata , K. 492, is an opera buffa composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro .Although the play by...
and Leporello in Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...
, both for Music Theatre London directed by Nick Broadhurst, followed by a series of open air concert performances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It tours widely, and is sometimes referred to as "Britain's national orchestra"...
. He is also an accomplished author and has written for DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
and Harper Collins as well as writing several screenplays. Ryan was also the co-creator, along with artist Chesca Potter
Chesca Potter
Chesca Potter is an artist in the United Kingdom, who has illustrated books , tarot decks , as well as calendars , cards and other media.-External links:*...
, of the Greenwood Tarot - a variation on the standard tarot
Tarot
The tarot |trionfi]] and later as tarocchi, tarock, and others) is a pack of cards , used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games such as Italian tarocchini and French tarot...
deck involving pre-historic European imagery.
In 1994, Mark was picked by legendary swordmaster Bob Anderson
Bob Anderson (fencer)
Bob Anderson is an English actor and fencer. Anderson also owns a claim to fame for being a swordfighting trainer for several films, as well as a stunt double for Darth Vader in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He is one of seven people to...
to assist as sword coach to Richard Gere
Richard Gere
Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and a starring role in Days of Heaven. He came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol...
and Ben Cross
Ben Cross
Ben Cross is a British actor of the stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.-Early life:...
in the film First Knight
First Knight
First Knight is a 1995 American medieval film based on Arthurian legend, directed by Jerry Zucker. It stars Richard Gere as Lancelot, Julia Ormond as Guinevere, Sean Connery as King Arthur and Ben Cross as Malagant....
. Director Jerry Zucker
Jerry Zucker (film director)
Jerry Zucker is an American movie director known for his role in directing comedy spoof films, and the hit film Ghost....
also asked him to play John Challenger during the filming of this Arthurian epic.
Before moving to Los Angeles in 1997 Ryan guest starred in many classic British TV shows such as: The Bill, Harry, Dempsey and Makepiece, Casualty and Peak Practice. He also appeared in films such as Doomsday Gun
Doomsday Gun
Doomsday Gun is a 1994 television film produced by HBO, dramatizing the life of Canadian supergun designer Dr. Gerald Bull and his involvement in Project Babylon, Saddam Hussein's plan to build a supergun with a range of over 500 miles. It was the first television drama to deal with covert U.S...
and Nil By Mouth
Nil by Mouth (film)
Nil by Mouth is a 1997 British drama film portraying a family of characters living in South East London. It was Gary Oldman's debut as a writer and director; the film was produced by Douglas Urbanski and Luc Besson. It stars Ray Winstone as Raymond, the abusive husband of Valerie...
.
While establishing himself in the US he guest-starred in such TV shows as Frasier
Frasier
Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...
, General Hospital
General Hospital
General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
, Conan The Adventurer, Passions
Passions
Passions is an American television soap opera which aired on NBC from July 5, 1999 to September 7, 2007 and on The 101 Network from September 17, 2007 to August 7, 2008....
, Nuremberg and Young and the Restless. He also worked as Fight Coordinator and Swordmaster on The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne is a 22-episode science fiction television series in the steampunk genre that first aired in June 2000 on CBC Television in Canada and in syndication in the United States....
and played Gordon in the San Diego Globe Theater's production of Neville's Island.
2000s
In 2000, Ryan played many major theaters in the US with original Monty PythonMonty Python
Monty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...
member Eric Idle
Eric Idle
Eric Idle is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer, and comedic composer. He was as a member of the British comedy group Monty Python, a member of the The Rutles on Saturday Night Live and author of the play, Spamalot....
, performing classic British comedy roles in Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python at venues like New York’s famed Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
and the Hollywood Bowl
Hollywood Bowl
The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheater in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States that is used primarily for music performances...
. The team later recorded the show exclusively for The Comedy Channel. He then went on to play John Dickinson in the Los Angeles stage production of 1776
1776 (musical)
1776 is a musical with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone. The story is based on the events surrounding the signing of the Declaration of Independence...
directed by Gordon Hunt.
He has also guest-starred in such TV shows as JAG
JAG (TV series)
JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions...
, Real Time with Bill Marr and Alias (TV Series)
Alias (TV series)
Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006...
and appeared in films such as Charlie's Angels (film)
Charlie's Angels (film)
Charlie's Angels is a 2000 American action comedy film directed by McG, starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu as three women working for a private investigation agency...
, Convicted, The Thirst and The Prestige (film)
The Prestige (film)
The Prestige is a 2006 mystery thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Christopher Nolan, with a screenplay adapted from Christopher Priest's 1995 novel of the same name. The story follows Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in London at the end of the 19th century...
.
In 2003, Ryan concluded work as a swordmaster and fight director on the film King Arthur
King Arthur
King Arthur is a legendary British leader of the late 5th and early 6th centuries, who, according to Medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and...
directed by Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua is an American film director. He directed the film Training Day as well as Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter and Brooklyn's Finest...
. His duties included consulting with the director and writer regarding designing all aspects of the Knights fighting styles, training all the principal actors including Keira Knightley
Keira Knightley
Keira Christina Knightley born 26 March 1985) is an English actress and model. She began acting as a child and came to international notice in 2002 after co-starring in the film Bend It Like Beckham...
, Clive Owen
Clive Owen
Clive Owen is an English actor, who has worked on television, stage and film. He first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for portraying the lead in the ITV series Chancer from 1990 to 1991...
and Stellan Skarsgård
Stellan Skarsgård
Stellan John Skarsgård is a Swedish actor, known internationally for his film roles in Angels & Demons, Breaking the Waves, The Hunt for Red October, Ronin, Good Will Hunting, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist,...
, planning and choreographing their action.
He began working on the 2007 film Transformers during filming as the on-set voice of several different robots. This work continued throughout filming and into editing, prior to the actual casting of voice-over talent. He was then cast as the voice of the character Bumblebee. Ryan also voices Ironhide and Hoist for the Activision video game based on the film. When Ryan was in the studio recording his lines for the actors on set, Michael Bay used the lines Ryan recorded for Bumblebee in the film. But Ryan didn't know that it would be used, and if so he said he would have used a different younger voice. He returned to voice Bumblebee as well as Jetfire
Jetfire
Jetfire is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers universes. He is nearly always depicted as an Autobot with jet or space shuttle alternate mode.-Transformers: Generation 1:...
for the sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction-action film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to the 2007 film Transformers and the second installment in the live-action Transformers series...
and the Activision
Activision
Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles...
Game based on the film.
In late 2008, Ryan launched a dramatic musical adaptation of the classic, gothic love-story Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë published in 1847. It was her only novel and written between December 1845 and July 1846. It remained unpublished until July 1847 and was not printed until December after the success of her sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre...
by Emily Bronte
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother...
, narrated by Beowulf
Beowulf
Beowulf , but modern scholars agree in naming it after the hero whose life is its subject." of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.It survives in a single...
star and Robin of Sherwood
Robin of Sherwood
Robin of Sherwood , was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel...
co-star Ray Winstone
Ray Winstone
Raymond Andrew "Ray" Winstone is an English film and television actor. He is mostly known for his "tough guy" roles, beginning with that of Carlin in the 1979 film Scum and as Will Scarlet in the cult television adventure series Robin of Sherwood. He has also become well known as a voice over...
. He composed, sang and produced the tracks with Robb Vallier who also worked on Spamalot
Spamalot
Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical comedy "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of Broadway theatre...
. He also directed the video for the song "Women" filmed especially for the website and featuring Jenn Korbee, Jessica Keenan Wynn and Katie Boeck.
In November 2008, the online publisher ComicMix began running Ryan's The Pilgrim, a graphic novel inspired by factual events during WW2 and concerning modern psychic warfare research and drawn by legendary comic artist Mike Grell
Mike Grell
Mike Grell is a comic book writer and artist, known for his work on books such as Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Jon Sable Freelance.-Early life:...
. It is believed that elements of the story are based on Ryan's experiences during his service in the Intelligence Corps and Special Forces
Special forces
Special forces, or special operations forces are terms used to describe elite military tactical teams trained to perform high-risk dangerous missions that conventional units cannot perform...
community. In early 2009 ComicMix announced an agreement with IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...
for hardcopy publishing rights of its online projects and IDW announced the publication of The Pilgrim commencing in April on 2010.
In early 2009, Ryan continued voice work on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction-action film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to the 2007 film Transformers and the second installment in the live-action Transformers series...
working directly with Michael Bay
Michael Bay
Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. He is known for directing high-budget action films characterized by their fast edits, stylistic visuals and substantial practical special effects...
and Alex Kurtzman
Alex Kurtzman
Alex Kurtzman is an American film and television screenwriter and producer.Kurtzman was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he met his high school friend and long time collaborator Roberto Orci...
almost right up to the release of the film and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction-action film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to the 2007 film Transformers and the second installment in the live-action Transformers series...
went on to became one of the biggest grossing films of all time in the US as well as in worldwide box office receipts.
In mid-2009 Ryan also directed the teaser/trailer for Blood Type written by John Matthews
John Matthews
John Matthews may refer to:* John Matthews , American NFL wide-receiver* John Matthews , New South Wales politician* John Matthews , Australian Anglican bishop...
and Wil Kinghan of Mythwood Films. Described as a dark psychological spin on the vampire mythos with a strong gothic element. The trailer was filmed on location at the Atlantis Bookshop in London, world-famous for its occult links with Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley , born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. He was also successful in various other...
and Denis Wheatley and WW2 esoteric warfare history and continued at The Prebendal, Thame in Oxfordshire, a 12th Century estate and home of The Bee Gees Robin Gibb and his wife; Dwina. The promo trailer for the project was accepted into the BAFTA Members Short Film Showcase for March 2010. He was also featured on the LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem was a prominent American dance-punk band from New York City. It was fronted by American singer-songwriter and producer James Murphy, co-founder of record label DFA Records...
video Pow Pow (song)
Pow Pow (song)
"Pow Pow" is the first single from LCD Soundsystem's third album This Is Happening, released on April 17, 2010 to coincide with the 2010 Record Store Day. It was initially released with only 1000 copies of a one-sided vinyl record....
directed by David Ayer
David Ayer
David Ayer is an American screenwriter, film producer and film director.-Early life:David Ayer was born in Champaign, Illinois in 1968. He grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota and Bethesda, Maryland, where he was kicked out of his house by his parents as a teenager...
.
During London Book Fair
London Book Fair
The London Book Fair is a large book-publishing trade fair held annually, usually in April, in London, England. The London Book Fair has grown in size and importance in recent years, and 23,000 publishers, booksellers, literary agents, librarians, media and industry suppliers from over 100...
in April 2009, specialist publisher; Eddison-Sadd presented The Wildwood Tarot, based on the highly successful and cult collector status: Greenwood Tarot authored by Ryan. The Wildwood Tarot is an updated and reworked version of Ryan's original tarot concept, co-written with John Matthews
John Matthews
John Matthews may refer to:* John Matthews , American NFL wide-receiver* John Matthews , New South Wales politician* John Matthews , Australian Anglican bishop...
with artwork by award winning illustrator: Will Worthington. Work began on the project in mid-2009 and The Wildwood Tarot was launched at the Atlantis Bookstore in London in April 2011. Wildwood Tarot remained as the best selling Tarot and Hottest Bestseller on Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
during the spring of 2011 and has now been translated into German, Dutch, Italian and Fench. The Wildwood Tarot is published in the US by Sterling Publishing
Sterling Publishing
Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. is a publisher of nonfiction titles, with more than 5,000 books in print. Founded in 1949, it publishes a wide range of nonfiction and illustrated titles in categories which include art, biography/autobiography, body/mind/spirit, crafts, culinary, do-it-yourself,...
.
In May 2010 Ryan returned to work on Transformers: Dark of the Moon, once again as the onset voice of the Autobots. Work on this third Michael Bay
Michael Bay
Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. He is known for directing high-budget action films characterized by their fast edits, stylistic visuals and substantial practical special effects...
Blockbuster continued at locations across the US and also at Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
The John F. Kennedy Space Center is the NASA installation that has been the launch site for every United States human space flight since 1968. Although such flights are currently on hiatus, KSC continues to manage and operate unmanned rocket launch facilities for America's civilian space program...
- Cape Canaveral. The film was shot in 3D with post production voice-work carrying on into the spring of 2011. Ryan contributed several military lines to the final cut of Transformers: Dark of the Moon and was credited as "Military Drone Operator" on the DVD. On release of the film in late June in 2011 it broke box office records all over the world and became the 4th highest earning film in history, grossing over $1.11B. Ryan also completed Bumblebee
Bumblebee
A bumble bee is any member of the bee genus Bombus, in the family Apidae. There are over 250 known species, existing primarily in the Northern Hemisphere although they are common in New Zealand and in the Australian state of Tasmania.Bumble bees are social insects that are characterised by black...
lines for the Universal Studios
Universal Studios
Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....
theme park ride based on the movies in the fall of 2011.
Work began in the summer of 2011 on a new book entitled "Hero Weapons of Film & TV", co-written with John Matthews
John Matthews
John Matthews may refer to:* John Matthews , American NFL wide-receiver* John Matthews , New South Wales politician* John Matthews , Australian Anglican bishop...
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Combat Radio
As of June 2011 Ryan has been a co-host/contributor to Combat Radio (www.combatradio.net) on the LA TALK RADIO NETWORKTelevision credits
- The BillThe BillThe Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
- Dempsey & MakepeaceDempsey & MakepeaceDempsey & Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham...
- William TellWilliam TellWilliam Tell is a folk hero of Switzerland. His legend is recorded in a late 15th century Swiss chronicle....
- Peak PracticePeak PracticePeak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time...
- HarryHarry (TV series)Harry is a television drama series that was made by Union Pictures for the BBC, and shown on BBC One between 1993 and 1995. The programme concerned a journalist called Harry Salter who ran a news agency in the town of Darlington in England.- Cast :* Harry Salter - Michael Elphick* Jonathan - Tom...
- CasualtyCasualty (TV series)Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
- FrasierFrasierFrasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...
- Conan the AdventurerConan the Adventurer (TV series)Conan: The Adventurer is a low-budget American television series produced from 1997 to 1998 and loosely based on the fantasy hero Conan the barbarian. The TV show premiered on September 22, 1997, and ran for 22 episodes. This live-action series starred Ralf Möller as Conan of Cimmeria and Danny...
- JAGJAG (TV series)JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions...
- General HospitalGeneral HospitalGeneral Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
- AliasAlias (TV series)Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006...
- The Young and the RestlessThe Young and the RestlessThe Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
- NurembergNurembergNuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
- PassionsPassionsPassions is an American television soap opera which aired on NBC from July 5, 1999 to September 7, 2007 and on The 101 Network from September 17, 2007 to August 7, 2008....
- Charlie’s Angels
- A Piece of My HeartA Piece of My HeartPiece of My Heart is the 18th novel by crime-writer Peter Robinson, published in 2006 and is 16th in the multi award-winning Inspector Alan Banks series.-Plot summary:Piece of My Heart is the 16th Inspector Banks novel by Peter Robinson...
- Convicted
- Robin of SherwoodRobin of SherwoodRobin of Sherwood , was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel...
Filmography
In addition to those mentioned above, Ryan has also appeared in:- The Corsican BrothersThe Corsican BrothersThe Corsican Brothers is a novella by Alexandre Dumas, père first published in 1844. It has been adapted many times on the stage and in film.-Adaptations:*The Corsican Brothers , directed by film pioneer and inventor George Albert Smith...
- The Phantom of the Opera (1989)The Phantom of the Opera (1989 film)The Phantom of the Opera: The Motion Picture is a 1989 horror film directed by Dwight H. Little and based on Gaston Leroux's novel of the same name....
- The PrestigeThe Prestige (film)The Prestige is a 2006 mystery thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Christopher Nolan, with a screenplay adapted from Christopher Priest's 1995 novel of the same name. The story follows Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in London at the end of the 19th century...
- The ThirstThe ThirstThe Thirst are an indie band based in Brixton, London. The band consists of brothers Mensah and Kwame Hart , Mark Lenihan and Marcus Harris .-History:...
- SpecOps: Delta
- Transformers - voice of Bumblebee
- Transformers: Revenge of the FallenTransformers: Revenge of the FallenTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction-action film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to the 2007 film Transformers and the second installment in the live-action Transformers series...
- voice of JetfireJetfireJetfire is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers universes. He is nearly always depicted as an Autobot with jet or space shuttle alternate mode.-Transformers: Generation 1:... - Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Onset voice and Additional military voices (uncredited)
External links
- http://thewildwoodtarot.com/
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- http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Wildwood-Tarot/192265810817414
- Interview with Mark Ryan about Robin of SherwoodRobin of SherwoodRobin of Sherwood , was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel...
- *TFW2005 Interview with Mark Ryan (Voice of Bumblebee and Jetfire)
- Mark Ryan's Official Website
- Mark's Radio Show Combat Radio
- http://www.thewildwoodtarot.com Official website for Mark's 2011 Tarot, created with John Matthews and Will Worthington