Richard Edson

Born: 1954-01-01

Richard Edson (born January 1, 1954) is an American actor and musician. He was born in New Rochelle, New York to a Jewish family. Edson was a founding member of the San Francisco art rock band The Alterboys. He started his acting career on screen in the feature film, Stranger Than Paradise (1984). Since then, he has been known for his roles in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Do The Right Thing (1989), Super Mario Bros. (1993) and Strange Days (1995).


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as Sal
Released: 1986-12-19

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with...

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as Garage Attendant
Released: 1986-06-11

After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school...

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as Monix
Released: 2004-03-05

Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first...

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Strange Days

as Tick
Released: 1995-10-13

Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual...

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Super Mario Bros.

as Spike
Released: 1993-05-28

Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved...

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3 from Hell

as Carlos Perro
Released: 2019-09-16

After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and...

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as Pvt. Abersold
Released: 1987-12-23

A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes...

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Do the Right Thing

as Vito Fragione
Released: 1989-06-14

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local,...

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Howard the Duck

as Ritchie
Released: 1986-08-01

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a...

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Frankenfish

as Roland
Released: 2004-10-09

When the body of a man is found completely destroyed in the swamps in Louisiana, the medical...

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The Million Dollar Hotel

as Joe
Released: 2000-02-09

The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel...

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Black Dynamite

as Dino
Released: 2009-10-16

This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his...

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Posse

as Deputy Tom
Released: 1993-05-14

A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold....

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Desperately Seeking Susan

as Man With Newspapers
Released: 1985-03-29

Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows...

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Double Tap

as Fischer
Released: 1997-09-05

A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.

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Purgatory

as Euripides
Released: 1999-01-10

An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun,...

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Jury Duty

as Skeets
Released: 1995-04-12

When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as...

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The Astronaut Farmer

as Chopper Miller
Released: 2007-02-23

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad...

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Eight Men Out

as Billy Maharg
Released: 1988-09-02

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a...

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Columbus Day

as Manny
Released: 2008-08-29

A thief tries to fix the damage done during the biggest heist of his career.

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Stranger Than Paradise

as Eddie
Released: 1984-10-01

A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.

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Timecode

as Lester Moore
Released: 2000-04-28

A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named...

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Let It Ride

as Johnny Casino
Released: 1989-08-18

An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically,...

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Walker

as Turley
Released: 1987-12-04

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in...

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The Winner

as Frankie
Released: 1996-09-13

A long lucky streak makes a nice guy the target of opportunists like his brother, his...

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Destiny Turns on the Radio

as Gage
Released: 1995-04-28

Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a...

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Sunshine State

as Steve Tregaskis
Released: 2002-06-21

A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must...

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Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

as Tony
Released: 1994-09-28

When an abused heiress grows to giant size because of her encounter with aliens, she decides to...

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An Occasional Hell

as Rodney Gillen
Released: 1996-10-31

A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the...

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Land of Plenty

as Jimmy
Released: 2004-09-10

After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive...

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Happiness Runs

as Pete
Released: 2010-05-14

The neglected child of parents living on a commune, Victor is helpless to resist the atmosphere...

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Motorcycle Gang

as Volker
Released: 1994-08-08

Cal and his family are driving to their new home in California and are terrorized by a...

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Thick as Thieves

as Danny
Released: 1999-01-28

Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first,...

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Love, Cheat & Steal

as Billy Quayle
Released: 1993-12-05

The beautiful Lauren gets married with an older man. She is unexpectedly confronted with her ex,...

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Eyes of an Angel

as Goon
Released: 1991-07-26

John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances...

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Crossing the Bridge

as Mitchell
Released: 1992-09-11

A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever...

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Fourth Story

as Mechanic
Released: 1991-01-19

Valerie's husband Darryl leaves for work as usual, but never returns. She hires private eye...

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This World, Then the Fireworks

as Joe
Released: 1997-07-11

In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute...

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Things I Never Told You

as Steve
Released: 1996-04-24

Ann, a cute video store clerk, calls a suicide hotline when her boyfriend breaks up with her....

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Lulu on the Bridge

as Dave Reilly
Released: 1998-09-06

This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is...

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Dark Hearts

as Ravetti
Released: 2014-04-29

When struggling artist Colson finds his muse in sultry singer Fran, their daring romance spirals...

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Cement

as Robbo
Released: 2000-04-14

Take a walk on the seamy side of town, where you can’t tell the difference between the bad cops...

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The Chair

as Riot Leader
Released: 1988-10-08

A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that...

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Bloodhounds of Broadway

as Johnny Crackow
Released: 1989-11-03

This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels...

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Wedding Bell Blues

as Tom
Released: 1996-10-18

Micki, Tanya and Jasmine have 24 hours to get divorced. There's just one problem...They're still...

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Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game

as Self
Released: 2014-11-03

A documentary about the making of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie.

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Scorpion Spring

as Lem Wells
Released: 1996-10-10

On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through...

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The Greims

as Larry
Released: 2009-11-18

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Burning Shadow

as Ronald
Released: 2018-08-07

Charlie, a down-on-his-luck loner, crosses paths with a blind homeless man who is his exact...

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The Kid & I

as Guy Prince
Released: 2005-12-02

Aaron Roman is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie....

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Murder in High Places

as Noogie
Released: 1991-06-02

A small Colorado mountain town elects as its mayor a writer whom some residents consider...

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Where is Rocky II?

as Ted Simmons (segment: "Monument One")
Released: 2016-05-01

Pierre Bismuth hires a private detective and a duo of screenwriters to investigate on an...

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Dutch Book

as uncredited
Released: 2015-12-12

A Florida teenager launches a scheme to pay off his father's gambling debts.

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Desperate But Not Serious

as Screenwriter
Released: 2000-10-31

Lily is a twenty-something aspiring writer who receives an invitation to attend a wedding...

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To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell

as Himself
Released: 2019-09-16

A look at the production of Rob Zombie's 3 from Hell.

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Love Is Like That

as Bubba-Lilly
Released: 1992-06-01

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down...

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Intimate Betrayal

as Charlie Dunn
Released: 1996-01-01

Two old friends reunite before a wedding to put the sins of their past behind them. What starts...

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Apartment #5C

as Harold
Released: 2002-06-19

Nicky and Uri, two young Israeli, arrive in New York, living off small theft. They set down in a...

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Hard Scrambled

as Joe
Released: 2006-10-13

When the owner of a venerable diner in the wrong part of town has an "accident" the men in her...

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Momma's Man

as Tom
Released: 2008-01-18

In Momma's Man an adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at...

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Snide and Prejudice

as Rudolph Hess
Released: 1997-05-11

At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe...

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Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

as Self
Released: 2009-06-30

In this documentary directed by Spike Lee, he interviews the cast and crew of his 1989 film DO...

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What About Me

as Nick
Released: 1993-01-10

After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York.

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Three Holes, Two Brads, and a Smoking Gun

as Sam Dunkim
Released: 2014-10-24

An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a battle...

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Tougher Than Leather

as Bernie Carteez
Released: 1988-09-26

Legendary hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. must find and punish the evil drug lord-record company...

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Jack of Hearts

as Henry
Released: 2000-11-02

A cop looking for a chance to redeem himself comes up against a man who has built a fortune out...

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I am Josh Polonski's Brother

as Abe Polonski
Released: 2001-02-16

Three brothers, Abe, Ben and Josh work in a textile shop and live a relatively quiet life until...

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Shannon's Deal

as Wilmer Slade
Released: 1989-06-04

A washed-up lawyer refuses to take a bribe and instead goes after the South American drug cartel...

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Goodnight, Joseph Parker

as Frankie
Released: 2004-10-01

Unapologetically brash in dialogue and texture GOODNIGHT JOSEPH PARKER is the classic love story...

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Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch

as Interviewee
Released: 1984-03-20

Documentary on American film director Jim Jarmusch made for German television. featuring...

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Some Days in January, 1984

as uncredited
Released: 2001-07-01

A short behind-the-scenes documentary shot and edited on Super 8 by filmmaker Tom Jarmusch,...

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Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon

as Bergman
Released: 1997-01-02

In the midst of a war between Venice and Genoa, Marco Polo, a citizen of Venice, is imprisoned...

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Space Cadet

as Nick Agnello
Released: 2013-04-18

Paul, a preoccupied 15-year old, tries to be helpful by cooking the family dinner, but nearly...

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CSI: Miami

as Quentin Haid
First aired: 2002-09-23

CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as...

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L.A. Law

as Carver Bowles
First aired: 1986-09-15

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from...

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Chicago Hope

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-09-18

Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran...

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Miami Vice

as Wavey Davey
First aired: 1984-09-16

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking...

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Cold Case

as Seth Lundgren (2008)
First aired: 2003-09-28

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned...

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Homicide: Life on the Street

as Danny Newton
First aired: 1993-01-31

An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore...

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Nash Bridges

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-03-29

Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite...

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Perception

as Keith Trevoy
First aired: 2012-07-09

Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government...

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ER

as Vinnie La Fontaine
First aired: 1994-09-19

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...

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American Gothic

as uncredited
First aired: 1995-09-22

Everything is not what it seems in Trinity, South Carolina. Sheriff Lucas Buck develops a...

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Happy Endings

as Valet Guy
First aired: 2011-04-13

A fresh and funny take on modern friendship and what one urban family will do to stay friends...

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Shannon's Deal

as Wilmer Slade
First aired: 1990-04-16

Shannon's Deal is an American legal drama. The show centers on a successful Philadelphia...

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Crime Story

as Jake Rennick
First aired: 1986-09-19

The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of...

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