Biography
Ron Rifkin (born October 31, 1939) is an American actor. His is best-known for his roles as Arvin Sloane on the spy drama Alias and as Saul Holden on the American family drama Brothers & Sisters. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Complete Filmography

Funny Pages
2022
as Grandfather
A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.

Minyan
2020
as Josef
In a rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcila...

Daddy
2019
as Mr. Smith
After the death of his wife, an 80-year-old man checks into the Plaza Hotel to celebrate their first anniversary apart, hiring a male escort to take h...

A Star Is Born
2018
as Carl
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big a...

They Shall Not Perish
2017
as Henry Morgenthau
The Near East Foundation, known initially as Near East Relief, spearheaded this first great mobilization of international humanitarian assistance in t...

True Memoirs of an International Assassin
2016
as Amos
After a publisher changes a writer's debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to nonfiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world of...

The Words
2012
as Timothy Epstein
The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. The...

Peep World
2010
as Henry Meyerwitz
On the day of their Father's 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, that ex...

Pulse
2006
as Dr. Waterson
When the dead discover a means to contact the living through electronic devices, cellphones and computers become open gateways to monstrosities and de...

Tadpole
2002
as Professor Tisch
Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, an...

Just a Kiss
2002
as Dr. Fauci
A group of thirtysomethings having problems with fidelity gets an opportunity to turn back the clock.

The Sum of All Fears
2002
as Secretary of State Owens
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia a...

Dragonfly
2002
as Charlie Dickinson
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

The Majestic
2001
as Kevin Bannerman
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a lon...

Sam the Man
2001
as Richard
A writer having difficulty completing his second novel goes on a journey of self-discovery.

The Warden
2001
as Judge Faschbinder

Deliberate Intent
2000
as Howard Siegel
A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how...

Keeping the Faith
2000
as Larry Friedman
Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper W...

Flowers for Algernon
2000
as Dr. Jonah Strauss
Charlie Gordon is mentally handicapped and all he wants in life is to be a genius. When he gets picked for experimental surgery it looks like his drea...

Boiler Room
2000
as Judge Marty Davis
A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm and is on the fast track to success—but the job might not be as legitimate as ...

Drop Back Ten
2000
After an expose on NFL players causes a series of lawsuits, a reporter gets fired. A loyal editor nonetheless gives him a freelance story to work on. ...

The Negotiator
1998
as Cdr. Grant Frost
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elabo...

L.A. Confidential
1997
as D.A. Ellis Loew
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of...

I'm Not Rappaport
1996
as Feigenbaum
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still ...

The Substance of Fire
1996
as Isaac Geldhart
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the gr...

Norma Jean & Marilyn
1996
as Johnny Hyde
This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to furthe...

Red Wind
1995
as Frank Barsaly
In 1940s, sympathetic African American L.A. shamus Philip Marlowe helps a dame in trouble whose lovers are offing each other over a possibly fake pear...

Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995
as Eli Garfield
Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Be...

W.S.H.: The Myth of the Urban Myth
1994
as Professor Pulling
A folklorist researching an 'urban legend' becomes caught up in his task. The film tells its fictional story in documentary style, featuring interview...

Wolf
1994
as Doctor
Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a ...

Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993
as Sy
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.

Husbands and Wives
1992
as Richard
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are ...

Buying a Landslide
1992
as Teddy Weinfeld
Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky ...

Queen Esther
1992
as Mordecai (voice)
This Hanna-Barbera animated video tells a version of the Bible story about Esther, whose heroism is commemorated annually by the feast of Purim. Esthe...

JFK
1991
as Mr. Goldberg (Spiesel)
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
1987
as Allen Ginsberg
A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention ...

Courage
1986
as Eppy Lucido
A mother in Queens, New York, outraged when she discovers that her son is a drug addict, becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug ...

Do You Remember Love
1985
as Gerry Kaplan
Barbara Wyatt-Hollis is an English professor who begins to experience the effects of Alzheimer's. The film documents her decline and the emotional tur...

The Ratings Game
1984
as TV Director
A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business.

Kidco
1984
as George Tuskle
A boy who lives at a country club where his father works decides to make some extra money by selling composted horse manure as fertilizer, and has his...

Sleeping Beauty
1983
as The Squire
A prince chases his destiny to an ancient castle in search of a cursed princess, thanks to the help of an informative lumberjack.

The Sting II
1983
as Eddie
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that...

Another Woman's Child
1983
as Barry Stein
Mike and Terry DeBray are a happily married couple whose lives change when the young daughter that Tony fathered out of wedlock suddenly appears and c...

The Day the Bubble Burst
1982
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.

The Chosen
1981
as Baseball Coach
In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families.

Mrs. R's Daughter
1979
as Deputy D.A. Joseph Barron
When a young woman is brutally raped and beaten, her mother sets out to find justice for her.

The Big Fix
1978
as Randy
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is re...

Rabbit Test
1978
as Dr. Briscoe
Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!

A Question of Guilt
1978
as Assistant District Attorney Verrell
A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.

In the Glitter Palace
1977
as Roger
The ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.

The Sunshine Boys
1975
as T.V. Floor Manager
Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spok...

The Night That Panicked America
1975
as Mercury Theatre Player
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.

Get Christie Love!
1974
as Normand
Get Christie Love! is a 1974 made-for-television film starring Teresa Graves as an undercover female police detective who is determined to overthrow a...

The Suicide Club
1973
A young gambler seeking greater challenges joins a card club where the members literally gamble for their lives.

Fuzz
1972
as Cop Guarding the Mayor's Mansion (uncredited)
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.

Awake and Sing!
1972
as Sam Feinschreiber
The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a be...

Silent Running
1972
as Marty Barker
After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions. Howeve...

Flareup
1969
as Sailor
A Las Vegas go-go dancer moves to Los Angeles to escape the psycho who has killed her partners.

The Devil's Eight
1969
as Stewart Martin
The Devil's 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent (Christopher George) who recruits six convicts to bust ...