John Saint Ryan

John Saint Ryan, born John Barker in Burnley, Lancashire, was an English actor who also trained and competed with horses. He entered screen work with a debut in G.B.H. in 1983 and soon took a small part in the soap Emmerdale as Jameson. Further television roles came in Coronation Street as Charlie Whelan and in series including Murder, She Wrote, General Hospital, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Cybill, plus the television movie The Heidi Chronicles. On stage he appeared in Far from the Madding Crowd and A Streetcar Named Desire. His film credits included the antagonist Cyborg in American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993) and Myles Standish in Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994), and he played Fergus in the Fox series Roar. He later trained horses and riders in dressage and western riding, winning national and international titles in the doma vaquera style and writing books and making videos about it.