Biography
Allan Rich (born Benjamin Norman Schultz; (February 8, 1926 – August 22, 2020) was an American character actor, author and activist. Allan Rich was one of the many alleged communist sympathizers blacklisted in the 1950s Hollywood blacklist. He mentored Rene Russo in the world of acting and also played a judge in Hill Street Blues. Rich was the co-founder of non-profit organization We Care About Kids, which produces educational short films for middle and high school youths. Description above f...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Last Laugh
2016
as Self
Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, an...

Wish I Was Here
2014
as Rabbi Twersky
Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getti...
Troupers
2011
Takes a look at twelve working actors in Hollywood over 80 and how they have managed to survive this crazy business.

Father and Son
2010
A grown man's quest to find love and acceptance from his stepdad and win a magazine contest.

The Last Word
2008
as Francis
An odd-but-gifted poet, Evan Merck makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departed. So when he meets Charlotte, the free-spirited s...

My Sexiest Year
2007
as Papa
A romantic coming-of-age story in which the kindness bestowed by a glamorous model is returned 30 years later by the young man in whom she inspired th...

Rise: Blood Hunter
2007
as Harrison
A reporter on the trail of a sinister cult wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead. She goes on a personal vendetta against a grou...

The Memory Thief
2007
as Zvi
A Los Angeles tollbooth clerk becomes obsessed with the Holocaust after meeting a survivor.

Man in the Chair
2007
as Speed
The story of an aspiring young filmmaker's encounter with a grumpy fount of movie lore.

The Alibi
2006
as Klump
Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to clients who have been unfaithful to their significant ot...

The Burial Society
2002
as Hy Leibowitz
In The Burial Society, Sheldon Kasner, an unlikely criminal who works as a bank loan manager, infiltrates the mysterious world of the Chevrah Kadisha ...

The Dogwalker
2002
as Sam
Jerry Cooper is The Dogwalker, a Tom Sawyer grown up for the nineties, who having fallen on hard times, is struggling with the reality of having to sl...

Skippy
2001
as Gordan Gates
A half-wit falls in love with a beautiful movie star.

Exposé
1998
Jason Davis is a reporter who gets an anonymous tip that turns him into an eyewitness to a judge's murder.

Amistad
1997
as Judge Juttson
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are th...

Out to Sea
1997
as Sebastian
Care-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they ar...

The Rich Man's Wife
1996
as Bill Adolphe
A rich man's wife finds she has a bad prenuptial agreement with an even worse husband. Over drinks with a stranger, she fantasizes about doing her hus...

Jack
1996
as Dr. Benfante
Jack Powell suffers from an affliction that makes him grow four times faster than normal, so the 10 year old boy looks like a 40 year old man. After y...

Miami Hustle
1996
as Stein
Marsha, a con artist with a conscience, has agreed to take on an unusual scheme in order to pay off a debt to a lawyer who helped out her brother. An ...
Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
1996
as Quote Reader
Explores sexuality and censorship over a hundred years of motion pictures.

Two Much
1995
as Reverend Larrabee
Art Dodge is a painter-turned-gallerist drowning in debt. He gets in over his head when a con job leads to an engagement with a rich divorcee. He gets...

National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins
1995
as Ziggy Brillman
America's three top leisure-time activities come roaring to life in National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins. This film consists of three short stories...

Disclosure
1994
as Ben Heller
A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career an...

Quiz Show
1994
as Robert Kintner
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-...

A Part of the Family
1994
as Burt
A bright young New York physician takes her husband, a jokey/cynical tabloid reporter, home to Illinois to meet her parents.

Amore!
1993
as Studio Executive #1
Saul Schwartz, a married successful businessman, is bored with his life and decides he has had enough. So he gets a divorce, quits his job, and goes o...

Dead On: Relentless II
1992
as Grazinsky
Detective Sam Dietz is paired with a shady FBI agent to track down another serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles.

Nickel & Dime
1992
as Bernie Stadler
A P.I. hasn't paid taxes in ages. When the IRS sends an accountant to investigate him, his only way out is to solve his latest case of a missing heire...

Guilty by Suspicion
1991
as Leonard Marks
Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for h...

Highlander II: The Quickening
1991
as Allan Neyman
In the year 2024, the ozone layer is believed to have been destroyed, and it's up to MacLeod and Ramirez to set things right. Opposition comes from bo...

Ragin Cajun
1991
as Regetti
After his girlfriend is kidnapped by a vicious mobster, Cage rips into action with a vengeance. Retired from kickboxing to pursue dreams of being an e...

Matters of the Heart
1990
as Boston Official
A noted concert pianist in her early forties, totally obsessed with her music, retreats to a small town to be alone and to write a concerto, but there...

Betsy's Wedding
1990
as Nate Tobias
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but B...

Another Chance
1989
as J.R. Jacobs
A womanizer tries to redeem himself to win over the girl of his dreams.

Checking Out
1988
as Dr. Haskell
When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortality. Convinced that all his aches and pains are an ...

Bad Guys
1986
as Luigi Constantine
Two LA cops turn to professional wrestling for money and revenge after being suspended from the force for a bar brawl.

J.O.E. and the Colonel
1985
as Pop Roth
Scientists create "the perfect soldier" in a lab experiment by recombining his molecules. He is then sent out on dangerous but vital missions.

Kidco
1984
as Jim Clark
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...

Frances
1982
as Mr. Bebe
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

The Entity
1982
as Dr. Walcott
Single mother Carla Moran is raped and attacked by an invisible force. She begins therapy with Dr. Phil Sneiderman, a psychiatrist who believes Carla'...

Eating Raoul
1982
as Nazi
A prudish married couple feel put upon by the swingers living in their apartment building. One night, by accident, they discover a way to both rid the...

The Ordeal of Bill Carney
1981
as Judge Stanley Mosk
Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons since his wife left him. Now, when word of his conditi...

The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
1981
as Paeter Yos
A rugged warrior is on a quest to avenge his father's brutal slaying and in search of a legendary sorcerer who can help him. Joining him on his missio...

Chicago Story
1981
as G.W. Rosen
A pair of cops, a pair of doctors, and a pair of lawyers examine a crime — the wounding of a ten-year-old girl by a sniper — from three different angl...

A Gun in the House
1981
as Roy Grutman
A woman who uses a handgun to defend herself and shoots a man who is assaulting her in her home is doggedly prosecuted by the district attorney, bent ...

Gideon's Trumpet
1980
as Tobias Simon
True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision whic...

Hero at Large
1980
as Marty Fields
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a sup...

The Seekers
1979
as Gen. 'Mad Anthony' Wayne
This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and career from his emigration to colonial Massachusetts ...

The Frisco Kid
1979
as Mr. Bialik
Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced t...

Voices
1979
as Montrose Meier
An up-and-coming nightclub singer falls in love with a shy young deaf teacher who aspires to be a dancer.

The Millionaire
1978
as George Jelks
Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a pros...

Uncle Joe Shannon
1978
as Dr. Clark
A trumpet player, self-destructive after the death of his wife and child in a fire, befriends a crippled youngster and together they battle obstacles ...

A Killing Affair
1977
as Capt. Bullis
A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. Durin...

The Hostage Heart
1977
as Dr. Motzkin
When billionaire industrialist goes into a hospital for a heart operation, some people who claim to be revolutionaries enter the operating room and dr...

Terraces
1977
as Mr. Vogel
Story of the various joys and crises of neighbors who share terraces in a high-rise apartment building.

Tail Gunner Joe
1977
as Ray Jenkins
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later plann...

Scott Free
1976
as Max
A professional gambler finds himself on the run from the mob, the federal government, and a band of Indians, all of whom have an interest in a piece o...

Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence
1976
as Judge Paul Pieter
In this pilot film, Mallory is a prominent lawyer with a tarnished reputation who defends a young man charged with committing homicide against a sexua...

The Happy Hooker
1975
as Desk Sergeant
Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts li...

Strike Force
1975
as Police Commissioner
A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.

The Gambler
1974
as Bernie
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling add...

Serpico
1973
as D. A. Tauber
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.