Biography
Robert Prosky (born Robert Joseph Porzuczek, December 13, 1930 – December 8, 2008) was an American actor. He became a well-known supporting actor in the 1980s with his roles in Thief (1981), Christine (1983), The Natural (1984), and Broadcast News (1987). Prosky's other notable movies include Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Hoffa (1992), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Last Action Hero (1993), Rudy (1993), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Mad City (1997). His most notable te...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Skeptic
2009
as Father Wymond
After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediatel...

The Valley of Light
2007
as Hoke
The Valley of Light is a beautifully-filmed, sentimental movie of a young man's quest to make sense of his experiences and find new meaning in life. W...

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Andrey Botvinnik (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...

Suits on the Loose
2005
as Bishop Hollister
Suits on the Loose is the story of two rebellious teens, Justin and Ty, and their breakout from a desert survival camp. When two naive Mormon missiona...
Death to Smoochy: Bloopers & Outtakes
2002
as Self
Bloopers and Outakes featured on the Death to Smoochy DVD.
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002
A short documentary about the making of Danny Devito’s film Death to Smoochy.

NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002
as Self
A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.

Death to Smoochy
2002
as Network Chairman (uncredited)
Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by s...

D-Tox
2002
as McKenzie
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. ...
Pasta For War
2000
as The Dictator (voice)
A humorous retooling of wartime propaganda films as troops of rigatoni march in stunning symmetry beneath squadrons of glorious mostacciloli.

Dudley Do-Right
1999
as Inspector Fenwick
Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot...

Swing Vote
1999
as Chief Justice
A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious...

The Lake
1998
as Herb
Jackie Ivers is a Los Angeles nurse who returns home to the small town of San Vicente to find that her friends and family have taken on bizarrely diff...

Mad City
1997
as Lou Potts
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

The Chamber
1996
as E. Garner Goodman
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has n...

Dead Man Walking
1995
as Hilton Barber
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

The Scarlet Letter
1995
as Horace Stonehall
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. ...

Miracle on 34th Street
1994
as Judge Henry Harper
Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, ...

Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
as Mr. Lundy
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his k...

Rudy
1993
as Father Cavanaugh
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of p...

Last Action Hero
1993
as Nick
After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is ...

Hoffa
1992
as Billy Flynn
A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles w...

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1992
as Maishe
For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jac...

Far and Away
1992
as Daniel Christie
A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh wi...

Double Edge
1992
as Maggie's Father
In this fast paced action-thriller, daytime's top star Susan Lucci plays two roles: both a crack FBI agent and the elusive killer-for-hire who she sta...

Age Isn't Everything
1991
as Grandpa Irving
Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself turned into a little old man.

Green Card
1990
as Brontë's Lawyer
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fa...
LifeStories: Steve Burdick
1990
as The Storyteller (Voice)
Steve Burdick is closeted television anchorman whose lover dies of an AIDS-related illness. Steve decides to come out and then tells his story about ...

The Love She Sought
1990
as Bishop Richard Baker
An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's existence when she has to start battling a new bisho...

Funny About Love
1990
as E. T.
As political cartoonist Duffy and his bride Meg fail to conceive, he and sorority girl Daphne succeed.

Johnny Ryan
1990
as Capt. Fitzgerald
An honest, hard-working cop has to go up against the mob in 1949 New York City.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
as Grandpa Fred
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But...

Dangerous Pursuit
1990
as Bill
A young woman's past catches up with her five years later and nearly shatters her life. As a footloose cocktail waitress, she unwittingly once spent t...

Loose Cannons
1990
as Von Metz
Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The ne...

The Heist
1989
as Dancer
Ex-con Neal Skinner seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens for framing him in an emerald smuggling deal.

From the Dead of Night
1989
as Dr. Walter Hovde
After having a near death experience Joanna finds her life in constant danger. She begins to believe that certain forces are trying to bring her back ...

Home Fires Burning
1989
as Rosh Benefield
When a WW2 veteran comes back home, he realizes how the war affected Americans by seeing the changes in his wife, family, and best friend.

Things Change
1988
as Joseph 'Don Giuseppe' Vincenzo
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder h...

The Great Outdoors
1988
as Wally
It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishi...

A Walk in the Woods
1988
as Andrey Botvinnik
A true story about one US and one USSR delegate who, during 1982 talks in Geneva between USA and USSR on limiting medium-range nukes in Europe, met by...

Broadcast News
1987
as Ernie Merriman
Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she...

Big Shots
1987
as Keegan
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a you...

Outrageous Fortune
1987
as Stanislav Korzenowski
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actre...

Washington Monuments
1987
as Narrator
Washington Monuments captures the beauty and history of the Capital's major landmarks in a presentation that is informative, picturesque and entertain...

Into Thin Air
1985
as Jim Conway
Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investiga...

The Natural
1984
as The Judge
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the lea...

The Keep
1983
as Father Mihail Fonescu
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks i...

Christine
1983
as Will Darnell
Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to he...

The Lords of Discipline
1983
as Col. 'Bear' Berrineau
Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first ti...

Monsignor
1982
as Bishop Walkman
The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market t...

Hanky Panky
1982
as Hiram Calder
Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later m...

The Ordeal of Bill Carney
1981
as Judge Philip Erbsen
Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons since his wife left him. Now, when word of his conditi...

Thief
1981
as Leo Alderman
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime an...

The Brink's Job
1978
as Lineup Gallery Cop
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McG...

Zalmen, or The Madness of God
1975
as The Chairman
This play takes place during Yom Kippur in a post-Stalinist Russian synagogue, where a Rabbi waits for a Western acting troupe and gets extremely angr...