Biography
Ronald Guttman (born 12 August 1952) is a Belgian actor, theatrical producer and film producer. His movie roles include The Hunt For Red October, On the Basis of Sex, The Tollbooth, 27 Dresses, The Guru and August Rush.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Duel
2024
as Rudolfo
When a friend group is torn apart by betrayal, they decide to settle their differences in the most old school of ways. Leaving their modern home of Lo...

All You Need Is Blood
2023
as Hans
Bucky is a 16-year-old aspiring director who dreams of becoming the next arthouse auteur sensation. After a strange meteor crash lands in his backyard...

Isle of Hope
2022
as Dean Donald
A university professor tries to reconcile with her mother after the woman suffers a life-threatening stroke.

Long Time No See
2021
as Michel
Nine years ago, they lived a brief love affair. Now, a chance meeting has them reunite in a train station, in-between two journeys. He is arriving, sh...
Either Side of Midnight
2021
as Konstantin
A lyrical snapshot and celebration of the manic, intoxicating diversity of New York. Four stories collide over one Friday night in Manhattan.

Sister of the Groom
2020
as Philibert
Audrey attempts to stop her brother from marrying a young French woman during their rescheduled wedding weekend in the Hamptons, which happens to be t...

What Breaks the Ice
2020
Executive Producer
A coming of age thriller about two 15-year-old girls, Sammy and Emily, who hark from different worlds but strike up a quick and deep friendship. But w...

Black Magic for White Boys
2019
as Larry
At a small New York theatre, an ageing magician comes up with a devilish plan to save his piece of old New York by invoking some real black magic. Har...

On the Basis of Sex
2018
as Professor Gerald Gunther
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century o...

Wanderland
2018
as Dan Tanner
A New York City man, Alex, takes an off-season trip to the Hamptons in attempt to escape his routine life in the city. While trying to spend his time ...

Mr & Mme Adelman
2017
as Monsieur Adelman - le père de Sarah
How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals...

The Rendezvous
2016
as Charles Du Plessis
A miss-matched couple embark on a frantic search for the Dead Sea Scroll hidden in the ancient city of Petra.

Catfight
2016
as The Man In The Towel
The rivalry between two former college friends comes to a head when they both attend the same glamorous event.

Nina
2016
as Henri Edwards
The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.

Welcome to New York
2014
as Roullot
Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls the economic fate of nations. A man driven by a f...

Taste of America
2014
as Menashe
A drama about a Russian artist who desperately tries to find himself in New York.

Pawn
2013
as Yuri
A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that's a front for the mob.

Welcome to the Punch
2013
Co-Executive Producer
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's alway...

Over/Under
2013
as Wally
A man becomes a bookie after losing his job as a day trader.

Girl Most Likely
2012
as Armando
A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.

30 Beats
2012
as Sean's Father
A summer heat wave and a series of sexual encounters connect a group of New Yorkers.

30 Beats
2012
Executive Producer
A summer heat wave and a series of sexual encounters connect a group of New Yorkers.

Je fais feu de tout bois
2012
as l'agent des frères Coen

Je fais feu de tout bois
2012
Co-Producer

New York Street Games
2010
Executive Producer
Documentary describing various street games played by children in New York.

13
2010
as Joe
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble be...

2B
2009
as Dr. Erich Einman
When a murder is witnessed by millions around the world, society is forced to confront the moral issues raised by the creation of the first post-human...

Tickling Leo
2009
as Robert Pikler
Drama - When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently unco...

Tickling Leo
2009
Producer
Drama - When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently unco...

27 Dresses
2008
as Antoine
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.

The Dueling Accountant
2008
as Shandor
When a lonely accountant reluctantly agrees to fight a sword duel, he is thrown into a world of intrigue and romance as he faces a scheming heiress, a...

August Rush
2007
as Professor
Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, h...

If I Didn't Care
2007
as Ayad
When a maid is shot dead in the exclusive resort community of the Hamptons, private investigator Linus must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse wit...

Delirious
2007
as Restaurant Manager (uncredited)
Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to bec...

Mentor
2006
as Interviewer
A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.

Mrs. Harris
2006
as Henri
Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean ...

The Tollbooth
2004
as Isaac Cohen
A coming-of-age comedy about a young woman who rebels against her Jewish-American family.

The Tollbooth
2004
Producer
A coming-of-age comedy about a young woman who rebels against her Jewish-American family.

Messengers
2004
as Radu, the Romanian Hypnotist
Dr. Sarah Chapel returns to the small town of Brighton Mills when her father Dr. Robert Chapel unexpectedly dies. His clients and friends miss him, an...
The Lucky Ones
2003
as Father
While looking into a strange spiritual ritual, Lorenzo discovers his virtues and unlocks his demons, taking him from a shameless, shallow existence to...

The Guru
2002
as Edwin
Bored with Bollywood movies but fascinated with their Hollywood counterparts from his youth, Ram dreams to become a singer and actor in America, the c...
Papillons de nuit
2002
Danny is impulsive and fights in series. Roberta has an unspeakable secret that robs her of sleep. From the first words their meeting is a real collis...

The Believer
2001
as Danny's Father
A hardcore US racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy ...

The Girl
2000
as Bartender
A torrid affair between two women, a struggling artist and a flame-haired blues singer, upsets a man who has a thing for the girl.

Recto/Verso
1999
as Parker
Riddled with debts after having been unfairly fired from his job, a star TV presenter—and inveterate womanizer—passes as a homosexual in order to get ...

Suits
1999
as Barry Hoffman
A deodorant company with a product called "Smell No Mo" pits two rival ad agencies in a race to come up with a campaign for a new-fangled sanitary nap...

Kisses in the Dark
1998
as Gianni Fabercini (Looping)
Four independent short films comprise this quirky anthology. "Coriolis Effect" (1994) is an offbeat love story involving storm chasers. In the Oscar-n...

Midnight Flight
1998
as Sullivan
An American woman is stranded in a German airport when she witnesses someone sabotaging a plane.

Just the Ticket
1998
as Gerrard, Culinary Director
Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't approve of his criminal lifestyle, though, and dumps h...

On the Edge of Innocence
1997
as Joseph Tyler
Teenage Zoe Tyler suffers from manic-depression. With a musician father who is never around life seems hard. Zoe eventually lands up in a psychiatric ...

Lena's Dreams
1997
as Bob
A New York actress thinking of quitting the business is suddenly faced with opportunities.

Dear Diary
1996
as Erik
A New York magazine art director, a married mother of two who just turned 40, decides to record the events of her day in a journal. The film won an O...
Les enfants modèles
1996
Two kids need to kiss each other for a fashion photo ... .
On Seventh Avenue
1996
as Norman Ross
A rising designer leaves a top fashion house to rescue her retired father's New York apparel business.

The Beast
1996
as Dr. Herbert Talley
Mysterious things happen at the coast of Graves Point: An empty boat lies at the shore, divers vanish. The sea biologist Dr. Talley thinks he knows th...

The Pillow Book
1995
as Calligrapher
A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

Comfortably Numb
1995
as Rappale
A clean-cut young lawyer meets a beautiful prostitute who drags him into a decadent dead-end world of sex and corruption.

Target of Suspicion
1994
as Charles
Nick Matthews and his wife and business partner, Jennifer, are in Paris to close a deal with Charles, a Frenchman, to market their perfumes in France....

The Patriots
1994
as NSA Employee
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...

Far from the Barbarians
1994
as Vincent
Zena lost her parents as a very young girl, and though she was born in Albania, only knows about life in Paris. She was raised by her uncle Selman, wh...

Josh and S.A.M.
1993
as Jean-Pierre
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in ...

And the Band Played On
1993
as Dr. Jean-Claude Chermann
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

Notorious
1992
as Joseph
After Alicia Velorus' father is convicted as a communist spy, CIA asks her to prove her loyalty by getting close to her father's friend, who's a suspe...
Looping
1992
as Gianni Fabercini
A vibrantly funny look at filmmaking as a megalomaniacal Italian film auteur charged with directing a big-budget musical about the Mafia, decides in m...
Looping
1992
Associate Producer
A vibrantly funny look at filmmaking as a megalomaniacal Italian film auteur charged with directing a big-budget musical about the Mafia, decides in m...

Iran: Days of Crisis
1991
as Hossein
Follows the events of Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and people who were held as hostages in the US embassy in Tehran, Iran for over 400 days.

Green Card
1990
as Anton
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...

Avalon
1990
as Simka
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a bett...

Frame Up Blues
1990
as Edouard de Vito
A crime lord offers him a job to catch his cheating wife in the act. The only problem is Finch falls for the woman (Roberta Bizeau). As well as having...

The Hunt for Red October
1990
as Lt. Alexander Melekhin (Red October)
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The Ameri...

The Hostage of Europe
1989
as Generał Gaspard Gourgaud
On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him...

Deux
1989
as Laurent
The manager of a contemporary music composer falls in love with the real estate agent with whom he is looking for a house in Paris. But both have been...

The French Revolution
1989
as Herman
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt p...

Her Alibi
1989
as 'Lucy' Comanescu
A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thin...

Steal the Sky
1988
as Mohammed Khader
An Israeli agent entices an Iraqi jet pilot to defect with his MIG fighter.

Little Nikita
1988
as Spessky
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.

The Squeeze
1987
as Rigaud
Harry Berg is both a con artist and an actual artist -- he constructs large sculptures out of television sets -- but he is not particularly successful...

Classified Love
1986
as Giancarlo
Three ad agency buddies, who cannot seem to find fulfilling love, decide to place personal ads to find new romance. The resulting blind dates and ulti...

Hanna K.
1983
as Warden
Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United Sta...

Danton
1983
as Martial Herman
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe...