Biography
Ron Dean (born August 15, 1938) is an American film and television actor. He appeared in films including Rudy, Risky Business, The Breakfast Club, Cocktail, The Babe, The Fugitive, The Client, and The Dark Knight. He is known for often playing detectives and other law-enforcement characters, most notably Det. Marion Zeke Crumb in the television show Early Edition.
Known For
Complete Filmography

One Small Hitch
2013
as Art Burke
On a flight home to Chicago for a family wedding, childhood friends Josh and Molly innocently agree to fake a wedding engagement to make Josh's dying ...

Sam Steele and the Crystal Chalice
2011
as Vladimir Kosokov
When Sam Steele Junior gets a term paper assignment on a visit by the Soviet Premier to the Midwest in the late 1950s he's less than enthused. But whe...

The Dark Knight
2008
as Wuertz
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the rema...
Voices from the Graves
2006
as Captain Larsen
A police detective is investigated when he claims to see ghosts.

The Wild Card
2004
as Brooks

Wild Things 2
2004
as Judge Ruben
Two Florida high school vixens hatch a murderous plan to win an inheritance, but they hadn't bargained for an escalating whirlpool of blackmail and se...

Lana's Rain
2002
as Lou
This powerful, hard-edged crime drama explores the dark side of the American immigrant experience and dares to ask, "How far would you go to survive?"...

Chicago Cab
1998
as Old Snack Trucker
A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad parts of the city and emotionally connects to many of...

Night of the Lawyers
1997
as Gus
They are armed. They are dangerous. They are lawyers. A hard working emergency room doctor is being harassed by a firm on nasty lawyers. An encounter ...

Chain Reaction
1996
as Sergeant Nick Zingaro
At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of ...

House of Angels: The Second Summer
1994
as Sven Petterson
Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their new stay. Axel has told Fanny he is her father, but ...

The Client
1994
as Johnny Sulari
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a ...

Rudy
1993
as Coach Yonto
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of p...

The Fugitive
1993
as Detective Kelly
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear...

Cold Justice
1992
as Stan Lubinski
When a washed-up boxer invites a British priest to minister in his South Chicago neighborhood, he never suspects that the priest is not who he says he...

Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
1990
as Sgt. Hill
After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rookie and three ex-cops, come to his rescue.

Dream Breakers
1989
as Sullivan
A movie about a Chicago family -- a building contractor and his two sons who have opposing ideologies. One brother works for a power-hungry builder wi...

The Package
1989
as Karl Richards
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gal...

Cocktail
1988
as Uncle Pat
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine ar...

Above the Law
1988
as Detective Lukich
Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his jo...

Big Shots
1987
as Policeman #2
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a you...

Light of Day
1987
as Mourner
Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems.

The Color of Money
1986
as Guy in Crowd
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and propo...

Crime Story: Pilot
1986
as Chief Kramer
One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.

Nothing in Common
1986
as Ed Bedsole
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.

Pink Nights
1985
as Pop
Danny is shy and always astonished how his friend Jeff can just walk up to a total stranger and say "Hi!". Even more astonishing that Danny meets thre...

Code of Silence
1985
as Det. Brennan
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

The Breakfast Club
1985
as Andy's Father
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel ...

Vegetable House
1985
Vegetable House is no garden variety comedy. When actor/writers Joe Doyle, Ron Dean (Code of Silence), and Aaron Freeman (America's Political Satirist...

Vegetable House
1985
Writer
Vegetable House is no garden variety comedy. When actor/writers Joe Doyle, Ron Dean (Code of Silence), and Aaron Freeman (America's Political Satirist...

The Toughest Man in the World
1984
as Ernie
Mr. T's first starring made-for-TV movie role has him playing a tough and scowling, but softhearted, nightclub bouncer who finds himself involved with...

Teachers
1984
as Guard
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still canno...

The Naked Face
1984
as Cortini's Driver (uncredited)
Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. Afte...

Heart of Steel
1983
as Lathrop
A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family and friends together while alcohol consumes him i...

Risky Business
1983
as Detective with Bullhorn
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 ...

Continental Divide
1981
as Plesko
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

The Last Affair
1976
as David Hart
The wife of a sterile man steps outside the marriage with a gigolo in order to conceive.