Biography
Richard Edward Gant (born March 10, 1944) is an American actor. His notable credits include the film Rocky V (1990), where he played the Don King-esque George Washington Duke; Hostetler in Deadwood (2004–2006); and Owen in Men of a Certain Age (2009–2012).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Hearts of Darkness: The Making of the Final Friday
2025
as Self
In 1993, Jason Voorhees went to hell in what is one of the most polarizing instalments in the franchise. The Dark Heart of Jason Voorhees, produced by...
The Fright Night Files
2014
as Micheal
Three stories told by a lady fortune teller.
Island Song
2013
as Duke
A popular Los Angeles radio DJ, Maurice Manning, finds himself trapped in the Virgin Islands. Thrown into a battle between an island mystic and the cr...

Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story
2010
as Paps 'Pure Plastic' Patterson
Story takes place during the MLB strike of 1994 when the nation turned its eyes to the sport of wiffleball. We follow the the pursuit of Ted Whitfield...

Ashes
2010
as Thomas Muller
An obsessive doctor working on a cure for AIDS unwittingly creates an aggressive new bacteria that deteriorates the body and enrages the mind.

Waiting for Forever
2010
as Albert
A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.

Daddy Day Camp
2007
as Buck
Seeking to offer his son the satisfying summer camp experience that eluded him as a child, the operator of a neighborhood daycare center opens his own...

Young Cesar
2007
When Ali Dean went to prison, left behind two sons. Tariq trains to become a boxer, but his brother, Cesar, ends up on the streets dealing drugs. And ...

Fist of the Warrior
2007
as Chief Matthews
First-class assassin Lee Choe has spent years working for the mob. When his handler turns on him by killing his girlfriend and framing him for the mur...

Cover
2007
as Robert Maas
When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that h...

Norbit
2007
as Preacher
A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.

Ezra
2007
as Mac Mondale
Ezra is kidnapped as a boy by a rebel group and has to testify later about the brutal experience of becoming a child soldier.

Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
2006
as Jackson
A hip hop horror anthology of three tales of terror told by the Hound of Hell (Snoop Dogg) that revolve around the residents of an inner-city neighbor...

Kingdom Come
2001
as Clyde Kincade
When her husband keels over from a stroke, Raynelle Slocumb calls the entire clan together to remember their dearly departed. Family tensions reach a ...

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2000
as Denise's Father
The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that rever...
Johnny B Good
1998
In an effort to impress the girl he loves, an amnesiac small time hustler uncovers political corruption.

Divorcing Jack
1998
as Charles Parker
He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as a...

Godzilla
1998
as Admiral Phelps
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, includin...

Sour Grapes
1998
as Detective Crouch
The bond between cousins is tested when one wins a fortune with the other's money at Atlantic City.

The Big Lebowski
1998
as Older Cop
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelc...

Bean
1997
as Lieutenant Brutus
Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the museum's board of directors' attempt to have him f...

Raven
1996
as Russ Carlson
Martin Grant has been hiding for years to escape his past as a ruthless mercenary in the elite force Raven Team. He's recently been engaged and are tr...

The Glimmer Man
1996
as Detective Roden
A former government operative renowned for his stealth, Jack Cole is now a Los Angeles police detective. When a series of horrible murders occurs in t...

Ed
1996
as Umpire - Sharks Game
Jack Cooper could be a world-class baseball pitcher if he didn't keep buckling under the pressure. He tries to keep his spirits up after he's traded t...

City Hall
1996
as Deputy Commissioner Samuels
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

Trial by Fire
1995
as Judge
A high-school teacher tries to help one of her troubled male students, who misinterprets her interest.

The Tower
1993
as Wilson
A mix-up with a security card causes a malevolent building to try and kill an employee on his first day at work.

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
1993
as Coroner
Jason Voorhees is tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone h...

Posse
1993
as Doubletree
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for...

Men Don't Tell
1993
as Pope
This movie shows another side to spousal abuse that not too many people thought is possible--the husband being abused and the wife the abuser.

CB4
1993
as Baa Baa Ack
A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these th...

Condition: Critical
1992
as Sgt. Lidner
Medical drama about a killer virus on the loose in Los Angeles.

Stone Cold
1991
as Cunningham
Joe Huff is a tough, loner cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBI blackmail Huff into an undercover operation that entails i...

Revenge of the Nerds Unaired Pilot
1991
as P.T. Turner
Unaired pilot based on the movie of the same name. Lewis, Gilbert, Booger and Wormser are kicked out of their dorm by the Alpha-Betas, so they join th...

Rocky V
1990
as George Washington Duke
A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky’s career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. Inspired by the memory of his trainer, however, Rock...

The Freshman
1990
as Lloyd Simpson
After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds h...

Collision Course
1989
as Jarryd Guard #2
A Japanese investigator and a Detroit cop team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.

Internal Affairs
1988
as Police Commissioner
A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as a...

Suspect
1987
as Everett Bennett
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and ...

Krush Groove
1985
as Jay B (as Richard E. Gant)
Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Ru...

Night of the Juggler
1980
as Hospital Cop
An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.

Attica
1980
as Eddie Lewis
Acclaimed dramatization recreating the incidents surrounding the 1971 revolt in New York's Attica State Prison that lasted for 23 days and resulted in...