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Ryan Cutrona (born July 29, 1949) is an American actor. He is best known for playing gruff authority figures and military men in both dramatic and comedic roles in films and on television.


Career

The second son of Joseph F. H. "Pro Joe" Cutrona, an Army general and combat veteran (
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), he was a native of
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and spent much of his early life in a military setting. His first law enforcement roles came on the TV dramas ''
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'' and ''
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'' in 1990. He was Captain Margolis in the ''Top Gun'' parody ''
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'' and played a detective in the Sharon Stone thriller '' Sliver''. He had larger supporting roles in the 1996 action film '' The Glimmer Man'' and the 1999 thriller ''
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'' while continuing to make frequent guest appearances in all genres of TV shows. He satirized his military roles in a TV commercial for the KAYAK travel site and showed up in sitcoms like ''
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'' and in crime dramas like ''
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''. He had one of his most notable recurring roles on the political drama ''
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'' as the CIA director from 2000 until 2005 and in 2007 begin two other significant TV roles. He was Admiral John Smith on the thriller '' 24'' and played Betty's ailing father on the 1960s era hit ''
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''. He collaborated with
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on his Peabody Award-winning series' on National Public Radio produced by KCRW: ''Work in Progress'', ''Somewhere Out There'', ''In The Dark'', ''The Other Side'' and ''Unfictional'' from 1987 until 2016. He has performed at noted theater festivals including The Theatre of Nations. In
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he appeared at the
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, The Vineyard Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, with The Alliance Francais at the John Houseman Theater, The Dia Foundation, Performance Space 122, NYSF, and WP Theater (The Women's Project) at The American Place Theater. In Los Angeles he appeared at The Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, and the defunct but bracing Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop/Festival.
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granted him rights to perform three theatrical solo premieres of his prose texts '' All Strange Away'' at
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.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cutrona, Ryan 1949 births American male film actors American male television actors Living people Male actors from New York (state) People from West Point, New York