Career
Ryder starred in the motion pictures Abuse and Forever Young, as well as the television movies Threesome, Laker Girls, Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story and When the Dark Manitoba Calls. He also played a Bajoran deputy in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes "Past Prologue" and "Babel" and also guest starred in Dream On, Designing Women and Party of Five. Ryder died in Hollywood, California in 1995, of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, aged 53.