Biography
An American actor who has appeared in more than 80 movies during his career. From 1995-1999, he served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Masur sits on the Corporate Board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund.
Known For
Complete Filmography
That Alien, Sound
2024
as Allen
In writer/director Brando Topp’s endearing feature debut, an alien sound wave takes over a woman's body through a radio broadcast, leaving her disbeli...
Frankie
2021
Frankie, a non-binary trans person, crashes their ex-partner's men-only 12 step meeting, determined to be heard - no matter the cost.
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
2021
as Himself
Thirty-plus years after its release, the popular two-part miniseries "It" and its infamous villain Pennywise live on in the minds of horror fans aroun...
Hudson
2019
as Jerry
A man embarks on a trip with his estranged cousin Hudson to spread his late mother's ashes. They meet an unusual woman along the way and their simple ...
Don't Think Twice
2016
as Lou
An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.
Tumbledown
2016
as Bruce Jespersen
A young woman struggles to move on with her life after the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when a brash New York writer forces her to ...
Lonely Boys
2016
as Irving
Following a recent breakup, struggling writer Jules (Dan Simon) crashes with his recently separated best friend, Saul (Gregory Lay), at his apartment ...
Vote and Die: Liszt for President
2008
as Rease Cunningham
A charismatic Billionaire runs for president as an independent candidate. His platform is simple: KILL EVERYONE NOW!!!
Palindromes
2005
as Steve Victor
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper fr...
61*
2001
as Milt Kahn
In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally ha...
Noriega: God's Favorite
2000
as Mark
The story of Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega.
Play It to the Bone
1999
as Artie
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unava...
The Thing: Terror Takes Shape
1998
as Self
An in-depth look at the making of John Carpenter's cult classic sci-fi horror The Thing, telling the story of a group of researchers in Antarctica who...
Hollywood Dreamers
1997
as Self
Aspiring actors and actresses talk about making it in Hollywood and how they perceive this world. Casting directors and filmmakers also share their pe...
Fire Down Below
1997
as Phil Pratt
When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, EPA undercover agent Jack Taggart is sent in—posing as a handyman working wit...
Undue Influence
1996
as Jack Vega
When a senator's new wife is murdered, the prime suspect is his ex-wife, Laurel. Laurel's brother-in-law, lawyer Paul Madriani, still reeling from th...
Multiplicity
1996
as Del King
Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves ...
It Was Him or Us
1995
as Walter Pomeroy
When her daughter's lover begins exhibiting signs of becoming a dangerous abuser, a mother attempts to intervene.
The Face on the Milk Carton
1995
as Jonathan Sands
Based on the book by Caroline B. Cooney, a girl happens to look down at a milk carton one day and she sees herself on the back! Could her parents real...
Forget Paris
1995
as Craig
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline...
My Brother's Keeper
1995
as Morley
A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.
The Patriots
1994
as Jeremy Pelman
Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years...
Search for Grace
1994
as Dr. Randolph
A woman haunted by disturbing flashbacks discovers through hypnotherapy that she and her boyfriend led parallel lives with a doomed couple from 1927.
My Girl 2
1994
as Phil Sultenfuss
Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an a...
Keys
1994
as Lowly Flowers
A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.
Six Degrees of Separation
1993
as Dr. Fine
The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-cl...
And the Band Played On
1993
as William W. Darrow, PhD
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
The Man Without a Face
1993
as Prof. Carl Hartley
Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlie...
Bound by Honor
1993
as Prison Librarian
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It ...
Encino Man
1992
as Mr. Morgan
High school misfits Stoney and Dave discover a long-frozen primeval man buried in their backyard. But the thawed-out Link—as the boys have named him—q...
My Crasy Life
1992
as Computer
Jean-Pierre Gorin examines the lives and cultural background of Samoan street gangs in Long Beach, California.
The Story Lady
1991
as Norm Denton
When Grace comes to live with her daughter and son-in-law, she is eager to find a way to be useful in the community. She loves to read stories to chil...
My Girl
1991
as Phil Sultenfuss
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and jo...
Going Under
1991
as Defense Contractor
An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine.
Always Remember I Love You
1990
as Earl Monroe
Just after he turns sixteen, Robert finds out that he is adopted. His parents find to their horror that he was kidnaped from his real parents. They de...
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
1990
as Kevin Conrad
After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaite...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
1990
as Dr. Meltzner
A rich woman becomes paranoid after losing her daughter to a so-called Kabuki Killer.
Vietnam Texas
1990
A priest (Robert Ginty) learns that he fathered a child during his tour of duty in Vietnam and that the mother and child has relocated to Houston, Tex...
Flashback
1990
as Barry
A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escor...
Cast the First Stone
1989
as Refson
After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at the school where she teaches who condemn her "loo...
Settle the Score
1989
as Lincoln Whately
Katherine Whately, a tough, young Chicago cop, comes home to her small town to settle her teenage rape. She is welcomed by her brother but shunned by ...
Far from Home
1989
as Duckett
Charlie Cox should have stopped for gas in California. While he's on a cross-country trip with his teenage daughter, Joleen, his car hits empty in a c...
Third Degree Burn
1989
as Clay Reynolds
A down-and-out private eye (Treat Williams) gets too close to the wife (Virginia Madsen) of a rich man (Richard Masur) soon found dead.
Two Daddies?
1989
as Michael Stevens (voice)
An animated special about a young girl who must learn to accept her divorced mother's remarriage.
Torn Between Two Fathers
1989
Director
The daughter of a divorced couple wages her own custody battle. After her natural mother dies in an accident, a teenager sues her natural father for t...
Higher Ground
1988
as McClain
Set against the awesome backdrop of the Alaskan wilderness, a disillusioned FBI agent decides to retire and join his buddy running an air frieght busi...
The George McKenna Story
1988
as Ben Proctor
Washington plays a school principal in a tough inner city Los Angeles high school out to rid it of drugs, gangs, low moral of teachers, and restore ed...
License to Drive
1988
as Mr. Anderson
Teenager Les Anderson thinks his life can't get any worse after he flunks his driver's exam, but he's wrong. Even though he didn't receive his license...
Hiroshima Maiden
1988
as Jim Bennett
"You have to think about whether they're really your friends," Johnny's dad says when Johnny talks to him about the grief his pals have been giving hi...
Shoot to Kill
1988
as Norman
When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city str...
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
1988
as Self
Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood's top stars) to help parents and children deal with typical family si...
Walker
1987
as Ephraim Squier
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
Rent-a-Cop
1987
as Roger
Detective Tony Church is forced to retire and become a store rent-a-cop when his drug sting operation comes to a tragic end by a masked killer. He joi...
The Believers
1987
as Marty Wertheimer
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly...
Roses Are for the Rich
1987
as Everett Corbett
In a small town in Appalachia, Autumn's young husband is killed in a suspicious mine explosion. She vows vengeance on mine owner Douglas Osborne and d...
Bride of Boogedy
1987
as Carleton Davis
In this sequel to the made-for-television Disney family classic, Mr. Boogedy, the Davis family deals with the return of Mr. Boogedy and his never-endi...
When the Bough Breaks
1986
as Milo
A Los Angeles psychiatrist testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found ...
Adam: His Song Continues
1986
as Jay Howell
Follows the true story of John and Reve Walsh who, after their child was murdered, fought to raise national awareness of the problem of missing childr...
Heartburn
1986
as Arthur
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reser...
Mr. Boogedy
1986
as Carleton Davis
A novelty-salesman moves his family into a new house. Initially dismissing incidents as more of their father's practical jokes, the family soon learns...
Love Struck
1986
Director, Writer
Love Struck is a 1986 short film directed by Richard Masur, starring John Simon Jones and Judge Reinhold. In this modern American romance, an awkward,...
Wild Horses
1985
as Bob Bowne
An over-the-hill rodeo champion gets fired from his assembly line job in Texas. He and a buddy then decide to head to Wyoming to get a job herding mus...
My Science Project
1985
as Detective Isadore Nulty
His high school teacher issues an ultimatum: turn in a science project or flunk. So Mike Harlan scavenges a military base's junk pile for a suitable g...
Head Office
1985
as Max Landsberger
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But...
Embassy
1985
as Dennis Thorne
US ambassador in Rome must protect US interests and secrets from mob, spies and curious girlfriends who may be more than what they seem.
The Mean Season
1985
as Bill Nolan
A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As t...
Obsessed with a Married Woman
1985
as Ed Karasick
A man falls in love with a married co-worker and wants her to divorce her husband, but she refuses because she has a ten-year-old son.
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
as Bartender
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
The Burning Bed
1984
as Aryon Greydanus
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes he...
Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac
1984
as Roger Olian
Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac is a true story based on the crash of Air Florida flight 90 on January 13, 1982 in Washington D.C. This movie follo...
The Winter of Our Discontent
1983
as Danny
This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.
Under Fire
1983
as Hub Kittle
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
Adam
1983
as Jay Howell
Based on the true story that shocked the nation and led to vast changes in how law enforcement handled missing children cases...John and Reve Walsh de...
Nightmares
1983
as Steven Houston (segment "Night of the Rat")
A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problem...
Risky Business
1983
as Rutherford
Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home ...
The Demon Murder Case
1983
as Anthony Marino
A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder.
An Invasion of Privacy
1983
as Dr. Harvey Cohen
A woman on a remote island is raped by a local resident and finds her fight for justice impeded by community prejudice.
Money on the Side
1982
as Nelson Vernon
Three middle-class housewives who are having money problems join a prostitution ring.
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
1982
as Claude Dorsett
Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's f...
The Thing
1982
as Clark
In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years....
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
1982
as Alan Newman
An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.
Fallen Angel
1981
as Howard Nichols
Twelve year old Jennifer is unhappy with her widowed mom's relationship with a family friend. Feeling lonely, she readily accepts the friendship of an...
Heaven's Gate
1980
as Cully
Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished imm...
Scavenger Hunt
1979
as Georgie Carruthers
An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or te...
Hanover Street
1979
as 2nd Lieut. Jerry Cimino
Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
Walking Through the Fire
1979
as Dr. Maitland
A young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the situation is the fact that she is pregnant, and the tre...
Mr. Horn
1979
as Sheriff Ed Smalley
Western saga based on the legend of frontier folk hero Tom Horn, including his role in the trackdown of Geronimo in the 1880s with his mentor and pal,...
Betrayal
1978
as Loren Plotkin
Dramatization of the 1971 case involving a young woman who sued her psychiatrist for luring her into a sexual relationship with him under the guise of...
Who'll Stop the Rain
1978
as Danskin
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside...
Semi-Tough
1977
as Phillip Hooper
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become ro...
Having Babies
1976
as Max Duggin
The story of four couples who are about to have children using the Lamaze method.
Bittersweet Love
1976
as Alex
A pregnant woman and her husband discover they are half-brother and half-sister, thanks to his father and her mother.
Whiffs
1975
as Lockyer's Aide
Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in its ...
The Thing Expanded
N/A
as Self
The ultimate companion to John Carpenter’s "The Thing", digging deep into the proverbial iceberg to enhance your viewing experience with new insights,...
Another Year Together
N/A
as Stanley
Another Year Together chronicles three romantic relationships in the same New York City family during the Holidays. Jonathan and Sophie, 30s, have bee...