Ryan International - Kieron Moore

[Stephen Laws]

Does anyone have episodes of the 1970 TV series RYAN INTERNATIONAL - created by and starring actor Kieron Moore? Great John Barry-ish main title music, although I've never been able to find any credits for the series.

Stephen Laws
The Midnight Man: The Official Website of the author Stephen Laws

[Arfur Teacake]

have you see here for credits?
Ryan International (TV Series 1970) - IMDb

Apparently turned Keiron Moore to religion LOL

[Gerald Lovell]

Does anyone have episodes of the 1970 TV series RYAN INTERNATIONAL - created by and starring actor Kieron Moore? Great John Barry-ish main title music, although I've never been able to find any credits for the series.

Stephen Laws
The Midnight Man: The Official Website of the author Stephen Laws

Stephen, like another series we chatted about before, I only have the theme music for this.

[Moor Larkin]

Apparently turned Keiron Moore to religion

I would imagine religion was ingrained in him from a very young age.

Kieron Moore was born as Ciarán Ó hAnnracháin, Anglicised Kieron O'Hanrahan, in Skibbereen, Ireland in 1924. He grew up in a hearty, Irish-speaking-only household. His father, Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, was an Irish Nationalist writer, poet, editor and political activist who was twice imprisoned by the British during the Irish Civil War. Kieron inherited from this family background a lifelong concern with oppressed or dispossessed people.

After retiring from feature film work altogether in 1974, his life took a religious and socially-active turn. He joined CAFOD (the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development), for whom he worked for seven years, directing and narrating two film documentaries in the course of that time. The films dealt specifically with the struggle for survival in Third World countries. He also travelled extensively in the Middle East and India and provided voice-overs for other documentary features as well. After this he became an associate editor of the biggest-selling Catholic paper in Great Britain, The Universe. In 1994, Kieron Moore retired quietly to the Charente-Maritime in France
*European Film Star Postcards*: Kieron Moore

[Arfur Teacake]

I would imagine religion was ingrained in him from a very young age.

Kieron Moore was born as Ciarán Ó hAnnracháin, Anglicised Kieron O'Hanrahan, in Skibbereen, Ireland in 1924. He grew up in a hearty, Irish-speaking-only household. His father, Peadar Ó hAnnracháin, was an Irish Nationalist writer, poet, editor and political activist who was twice imprisoned by the British during the Irish Civil War. Kieron inherited from this family background a lifelong concern with oppressed or dispossessed people.

After retiring from feature film work altogether in 1974, his life took a religious and socially-active turn. He joined CAFOD (the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development), for whom he worked for seven years, directing and narrating two film documentaries in the course of that time. The films dealt specifically with the struggle for survival in Third World countries. He also travelled extensively in the Middle East and India and provided voice-overs for other documentary features as well. After this he became an associate editor of the biggest-selling Catholic paper in Great Britain, The Universe. In 1994, Kieron Moore retired quietly to the Charente-Maritime in France
*European Film Star Postcards*: Kieron Moore

Fascinating life of Keiron Moore.
You could see in League of Gentleman that there was star there in the making and his brooding performances in the ITC series' was going to nail that leading role.

Therefore Ryan International must be a bit of an enigma? -a major production that disappeared so quickly off the screen, never to be seen again despite the fact that being in colour surely should have guaranteed a repeat run somewhere at some time.

[Moor Larkin]

Ryan International - Stardom? "I'd rather be happy," says Kieron Moore: I remember Kieron Moore as an incisive, clean-cut young blade who always administered Irish charm, in turtleneck sweater and sports coat, among post-war British films. In those austere days he looked a solid bet for stardom. Why the years in the wilderness? "Well, that's one of those question I jus don't know the answer to," admits Moore, now grizzle-haired, lean, and infinitely less gauche than he ever appeared on the screen. "One thing I know is that I'm glad it happened that way. I'm glad things didn't work out the way I wanted them; if they had, and I'd been a so-called star, it would have been bad for me, as a person. Success at any time is dangerous; at nineteen it would have been disastrous". What happened, instead of stardom, was that Moore married, raised four children, and bought a home in Madrid, where for several years past he has been making films for American and Continental consumption. He has returned to make Ryan International because the series offers a tailor-made leading role. Ryan, the lawyer hero of the new series, is a fair replica of the urbane, multilingual Moore, except that the fictional character has suffered tragic bereavements, whereas Moore on the other hand is a comfortable head of a comfortable family. He explains: "The point is that a man has to suffer to have a broad, sympathetic understanding of life, and human frailty. I have suffered in different ways from this character. There's been a lot of joy in my life, but there's also been suffering, and I wouldn't have wanted things any different. You can turn out to be an awful human being unless you've been walloped". (Radio Times, September 10, 1970 - Article by John Hall).
Action TV Online - Ryan International episode guide

[Arfur Teacake]

So from what I can gather Ryan International was set to be the BBC's answer to The Saint?

but it fell apart because nobody knew where it was going?

I can see an immediate problem with the story writers - they were all from the same school
of thinking that Harry Junkin (script super on the Saint) could not stand, he wanted flash, bang,
wallop scripts, no hidden messages, no politics, no arty farty nonsense.

[Stephen Laws]

Stephen, like another series we chatted about before, I only have the theme music for this.

Hi Gerald - Yes I'd love a copy of that theme. Could you email me at stephenlaws13@aol.com - and we can sort an exchange out.

Also to the chap who referred me to IMDB credits - many thanks, but you'll see that there is no music credit there.

Cheers
Stephen Laws
The Midnight Man: The Official Website of the author Stephen Laws