Mitchell Ryan was born on January 11, 1934, and died on March 4, 2022. Ryan was an American film, television, and stage actor, who in his six decades of television is known for playing Burke Devlin in the 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, and later for his co-starring role as Thomas Gibson’s father Edward Montgomery on Dharma & Greg.
He also played the villainous General Peter McAllister in the 1987 buddy cop action film Lethal Weapon. Mitchell Ryan, a veteran film and television actor who captivated daytime television fans in his role as Burke Devlin on the groundbreaking daytime soap Dark Shadows, died March 4, 2022. He was 88 years old and no cause of death was given.
His former costar Kathryn Leigh Scott shared the news on Facebook:
Ryan married Lynda Morse in 1972. They later divorced. The couple had three children.