Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard J. Bright (June 28, 1937 – February 18, 2006) was an American actor best known for his role as Al Neri in the The Godfather films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Bright, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Day On Fire
2006
as Homeless Man
The lives of a Palestinian journalist and a Jewish model become inextricably, and shockingly, intertwined after they meet by accident in New York.

Dead Dog
2001
as Cunningham
Tom and Perri are the happy ideal New York couple until Tom's beloved Golden Retriever is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Tom blames Perri for the acc...

Trigger Happy
2001
as Quigley
A hand gun is passed between 22 loosely connected New Yorkers.

The Photographer
2000
as Drunk in Bar
A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night befo...

Broke Even
2000
as Lazarus
Dot, Lem and Curry, three hapless working-class chums living in the Bronx, have a penchant for gambling. While riding a rare winning streak, they deci...

Pictures of Baby Jane Doe
1999
as Rudy
When down-on-his-luck photographer Horace meets Jane, a young streetwalker with a sordid lifestyle, they quickly fall in love and embark on a chaotic ...

Joe the King
1999
as Roy
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing se...

All Revved Up
1998
as Louis
A lovely school teacher finds herself the victim of a scam artist - a garage owner who delights in ripping off his customers. Soon, she has two eager ...
Anima
1998
as Tommy
A reporter doing a story on taxidermy discovers an odd older couple that he becomes convinced are ex-Nazi's. The chief item leading to this belief is ...

Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
as 64 Precinct Lieutenant
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

Calm at Sunset
1996
as Pittsley
Drama about a young man who defies his parents by dropping out of college to pursue his dream of owning a fishing boat, following in the footsteps of ...

Beautiful Girls
1996
as Dick Conway
During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connec...

Who Do I Gotta Kill?
1994
as Belcher
A struggling writer takes a job for his mobster uncle in order to obtain first-hand material for a book on conspiracy plots and the JFK assassination....

The Ref
1994
as Murray
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.

Who's the Man?
1993
as Demetrius
Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as fa...

The Godfather Part III
1990
as Al Neri
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sin...

The Ambulance
1990
as McClosky
Josh meets a young woman who shortly afterwards collapses and is rushed to hospital in an ambulance. He follows after her only to find that there is n...

Ghoul School
1990
as Principal Kaplan (as Eddie Gambino)
Two sniveling high school dropouts plot to rob the school janitor and accidentally release toxic chemicals into the school's water supply. The swimmin...

An Empire of Reason
1988
as Donahue Audience Member
Docudrama about the debate surrounding New York State's ratification of the United States Constitution. Historical figures wear modern dress and use f...

The Verne Miller Story
1988
as Adam Richetti
Upon his release from prison, Verne Miller works his way into Al Capone's organization. He becomes a top assassin and earns Capone's trust. However, M...

Red Heat
1988
as Sgt. Gallagher
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord w...

Time Out
1988
as Sherif
Drama about a young Dane who has traveled to America to find the father he can hardly remember. In New Mexico he gets to know the daughter of a politi...

Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986
as Recruiting Sergeant
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his ...

The Penalty Phase
1986
as Judge Von Karman
Things looked pretty simple: the confessed murderer had all the evidence against him. The Prosecutor Jansen could not have been more relentless, conse...

There Must Be a Pony
1986
as The Detective
Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relation...

High School Narc
1985
as Dave
22-year-old police officer poses as a student to find the identity of a drug supplier at an inner-city high school.

Cut and Run
1985
as Bob Allo
A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massa...

Crimewave
1985
as Officer Brennan
Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man, ...

Brass
1985
as Philip Stack
The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.

Once Upon a Time in America
1984
as Chicken Joe
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the gh...

Two of a Kind
1983
as Stuart
God has had enough of the bad behavior and attitude of humankind, and has decided to start it all over. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank t...

Girls Nite Out
1982
as Detective Greenspan
The students of DeWitt University are preparing themselves for a night of fun and frolics in the form of an all-night scavenger hunt. Little do they k...

Vigilante
1982
as Burke
New York City factory worker Eddie Marino is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murd...

Sizzle
1981
as Corky
A sultry nightclub singer, a small-town girl in the big city, sets out to avenge her boyfriend's murder after he is killed while running illegal booze...

The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic
1981
as Al Neri
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic is a reduced, 386-minute version of the 1977 television miniseries, "Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Comple...

The Idolmaker
1980
as Uncle Tony
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

Hair
1979
as Fenton
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his...

On the Yard
1978
as Nunn
Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con confronts Chilly's po...

Cops and Robin
1978
as Lt. Dan Morgan
A veteran street cop and his partner, a robot programmed to be the perfect policeman, are assigned to protect the five-year-old daughter of the widow ...

Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1977
as George
A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she beg...

Citizens Band
1977
as Smilin' Jack
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.

Marathon Man
1976
as Karl
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

Rancho Deluxe
1975
as Burt
Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.

The Godfather Part II
1974
as Al Neri
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone at...

The Gun
1974
as Gil Strauss
The odyssey of an American handgun and the dramatic way it reshapes the lives of its various owners.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974
as Bar Patron (uncredited)
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a d...

The Sugarland Express
1974
as Marvin Dybala (uncredited)
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Je...

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
as Holly
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

The Connection
1973
as BeeJay
An out-of-work newspaperman in need of money becomes the go-between for a jewel thief and an insurance company that wants to settle.

The Getaway
1972
as The Thief
A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.

The Godfather
1972
as Neri
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corl...

A Death of Innocence
1971
as Johnny Rekko
A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and doe...

The Panic in Needle Park
1971
as Hank
A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love ...

Lions Love
1969
as Billy the Kid in The Beard
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

Freedom to Love
1969
as Billy the Kid
A sex education film dedicated to all forms of human sexuality.

Odds Against Tomorrow
1959
as Coco
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.