Richard Edson

Richard Edson

1954-01-01 New Rochelle, New York, USA 83 Credits

Biography

Richard Edson (born January 1, 1954) is an American actor and musician. He was born in New Rochelle, New York to a Jewish family. In 1979, Edson was a founding member of the San Francisco art rock band The Alterboys with Snuky Tate, Tono Rondone, Richard Kelly and JC Garrett, playing both drums and trumpet. From 1981 to 1982, he was Sonic Youth's original drummer and played drums for Konk at the same time. After the release of Sonic Youth's self-titled debut EP, Edson left the band to play with...

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The Code

The Code

2025

as Jay's Dad

6.8
Acting

Early-pandemic, Jay and Celine head to a rental house to reconnect. While Celine films a documentary on their disintegrating relationship, a recently ...

3 from Hell

3 from Hell

2019

as Carlos Perro

5.8
Acting

After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be...

To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell

To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell

2019

as Self

6.0
Acting

A look at the production of Rob Zombie's 3 from Hell.

Burning Shadow

Burning Shadow

2018

as Ronald

6.4
Acting

Charlie, a down-on-his-luck loner, crosses paths with a blind homeless man who is his exact double. Perplexed and intrigued by the discovery, Charlie ...

Dream Murder Machine

2018

Acting

An unstable women channels Ingrid Bergman to overcome her fears.

Where is Rocky II?

Where is Rocky II?

2016

as Ted Simmons (segment: "Monument One")

5.0
Acting

Pierre Bismuth hires a private detective and a duo of screenwriters to investigate on an enigmatic artwork.

Dutch Book

Dutch Book

2015

6.0
Acting

A Florida teenager launches a scheme to pay off his father's gambling debts.

Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game

Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game

2014

as Self - Spike

5.1
Acting

A documentary about the making of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie.

Three Holes, Two Brads, and a Smoking Gun

Three Holes, Two Brads, and a Smoking Gun

2014

as Sam Dunkim

5.6
Acting

An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a battle of wits with a devious screenwriter student.

Dark Hearts

Dark Hearts

2014

as Ravetti

3.8
Acting

When struggling artist Colson finds his muse in sultry singer Fran, their daring romance spirals out of control into a dangerous game of deception and...

Space Cadet

Space Cadet

2013

as Nick Agnello

Acting

Paul, a preoccupied 15-year old, tries to be helpful by cooking the family dinner, but nearly blows the place up instead. When his hippie parents tell...

The Smell of Success

The Smell of Success

2011

as Nelly the Nose

5.6
Acting

When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livelihood of its loyal fleet of salesmen threatens to ...

Happiness Runs

Happiness Runs

2010

as Pete

4.0
Acting

The neglected child of parents living on a commune, Victor is helpless to resist the atmosphere of sex and drugs that permeates his world, but he's sm...

The Greims

The Greims

2009

as Larry

Acting
Black Dynamite

Black Dynamite

2009

as Dino

7.1
Acting

This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded...

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

2009

as Self

7.0
Acting

In this documentary directed by Spike Lee, he interviews the cast and crew of his 1989 film DO THE RIGHT THING. It also includes footage from a twenti...

Columbus Day

Columbus Day

2008

as Manny

4.9
Acting

A thief tries to fix the damage done during the biggest heist of his career.

Momma's Man

Momma's Man

2008

as Tom

6.0
Acting

An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.

The Astronaut Farmer

The Astronaut Farmer

2007

as Chopper Miller

6.2
Acting

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unli...

Hard Scrambled

Hard Scrambled

2006

as Joe

5.0
Acting

When the owner of a venerable diner in the wrong part of town has an "accident" the men in her life scheme and fight for control of the establishment.

The Kid & I

The Kid & I

2005

as Guy Prince

5.3
Acting

Aaron Roman is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father grants Aaron his wish for his eightee...

Frankenfish

Frankenfish

2004

as Roland

5.7
Acting

When the body of a man is found completely destroyed in the swamps in Louisiana, the medical investigator Sam Rivers is assigned to investigate the mu...

Goodnight, Joseph Parker

Goodnight, Joseph Parker

2004

as Frankie

5.5
Acting

Unapologetically brash in dialogue and texture GOODNIGHT JOSEPH PARKER is the classic love story brought to a no-pleasantries bar room. Girl loves man...

Land of Plenty

Land of Plenty

2004

as Jimmy

6.2
Acting

After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.

Starsky & Hutch

Starsky & Hutch

2004

as Monix

5.8
Acting

Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcom...

Sunshine State

Sunshine State

2002

as Steve Tregaskis

6.4
Acting

A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estat...

Apartment #5C

Apartment #5C

2002

as Harold

5.0
Acting

Nicky and Uri, two young Israeli, arrive in New York, living off small theft. They set down in a very modest Brooklyn appartment. One night, during an...

Some Days in January, 1984

Some Days in January, 1984

2001

Acting

A short behind-the-scenes documentary shot and edited on Super 8 by filmmaker Tom Jarmusch, director Jim Jarmusch’s brother, during the filming of STR...

Southlander: Diary of a Desperate Musician

2001

as Thomas

4.0
Acting

Chance, a hapless Los Angeles musician is searching for the coveted Moletron synthesizer through the classified ad paper the "Southlander", and meetin...

I am Josh Polonski's Brother

I am Josh Polonski's Brother

2001

as Abe Polonski

6.6
Acting

Three brothers, Abe, Ben and Josh work in a textile shop and live a relatively quiet life until one day when Josh is killed in front of Abe's eyes. De...

Jack of Hearts

Jack of Hearts

2000

as Henry

1.5
Acting

A cop looking for a chance to redeem himself comes up against a man who has built a fortune out of corruption.

Desperate But Not Serious

Desperate But Not Serious

2000

as Screenwriter

4.9
Acting

Lily is a twenty-something aspiring writer who receives an invitation to attend a wedding reception with Jonathan, a handsome entomologist who also ha...

Timecode

Timecode

2000

as Lester Moore

5.6
Acting

A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, i...

Cement

Cement

2000

as Robbo

4.1
Acting

Take a walk on the seamy side of town, where you can’t tell the difference between the bad cops and the crooks. Bob Holt, a corrupt detective knee-dee...

The Million Dollar Hotel

The Million Dollar Hotel

2000

as Joe

5.9
Acting

A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.

Thick as Thieves

Thick as Thieves

1999

as Danny

5.9
Acting

Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own...

The Shade

1999

as Simon

5.7
Acting

The first film of New York-based French director Raphael Nadjari is an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Gentle Creature, which had also inspired Une Fe...

Purgatory

Purgatory

1999

as Euripides

7.2
Acting

An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and th...

Lulu on the Bridge

Lulu on the Bridge

1998

as Dave Reilly

5.8
Acting

This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

Double Tap

Double Tap

1997

as Fischer

5.3
Acting

A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.

This World, Then the Fireworks

This World, Then the Fireworks

1997

as Joe

5.1
Acting

In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and murder...

Snide and Prejudice

Snide and Prejudice

1997

as Rudolph Hess

4.5
Acting

At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe they are important Nazi figures to act out their fantas...

Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon

Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon

1997

as Bergman

5.0
Acting

In the midst of a war between Venice and Genoa, Marco Polo, a citizen of Venice, is imprisoned by the inquisition and is charged with heresy.

An Occasional Hell

An Occasional Hell

1996

as Rodney Gillen

3.5
Acting

A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the murder of her unfaithful husband and the disappearance of h...

Wedding Bell Blues

Wedding Bell Blues

1996

as Tom

4.2
Acting

Micki, Tanya and Jasmine have 24 hours to get divorced. There's just one problem...They're still single. When Jasmine, Tanya and Micki decide they'd ...

Scorpion Spring

Scorpion Spring

1996

as Lem Wells

6.6
Acting

On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...

The Winner

The Winner

1996

as Frankie

4.5
Acting

A long lucky streak makes a nice guy the target of opportunists like his brother, his girlfriend, and some guys from New Jersey.

Things I Never Told You

Things I Never Told You

1996

as Steve

5.4
Acting

Don is a real estate salesman who volunteers at a "hotline for hope". Ann, who works in a photo store, has been told by her boyfriend that he doesn't ...

Intimate Betrayal

Intimate Betrayal

1996

as Charlie Dunn

Acting

Two old friends reunite before a wedding to put the sins of their past behind them. What starts out as an evening of reconciliation turns into a night...

Strange Days

Strange Days

1995

as Tick

7.0
Acting

Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reality-like recordings that allow users to experience ...

Destiny Turns on the Radio

Destiny Turns on the Radio

1995

as Gage

5.1
Acting

Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things aren'...

Jury Duty

Jury Duty

1995

as Skeets

4.4
Acting

When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a mur...

Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

1994

as Tony

4.8
Acting

When an abused heiress grows to giant size because of her encounter with aliens, she decides to get revenge on her cheating husband and those who look...

Motorcycle Gang

Motorcycle Gang

1994

as Volker

3.7
Acting

Cal and his family are driving to their new home in California and are terrorized by a motorcycle gang along the highway.

Love, Cheat & Steal

Love, Cheat & Steal

1993

as Billy Quayle

4.4
Acting

Paul Harrington thinks he has the perfect wife... stunning, kind, and ambitious. Yet behind Lauren's pretty face lies a wicked person who sent her for...

Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros.

1993

as Spike

4.5
Acting

Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only ho...

Joey Breaker

Joey Breaker

1993

as Joey Breaker

3.6
Acting

Joey is a player, a hot-shot movie agent in New York. If a deal can be made, he'll make it. If a rising talent can be snapped up, he'll be the first i...

Posse

Posse

1993

as Deputy Tom

5.3
Acting

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...

What About Me

What About Me

1993

as Nick

4.3
Acting

After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York.

Crossing the Bridge

Crossing the Bridge

1992

as Mitchell

5.8
Acting

A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in a drug-running sche...

Love Is Like That

Love Is Like That

1992

as Bubba-Lilly

4.6
Acting

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary....

Eyes of an Angel

Eyes of an Angel

1991

as Goon

6.9
Acting

John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses ...

Murder in High Places

Murder in High Places

1991

as Noogie

3.0
Acting

A small Colorado mountain town elects as its mayor a writer whom some residents consider "eccentric" and others don't care for because he's a former h...

Fourth Story

Fourth Story

1991

as Mechanic

5.6
Acting

Valerie's husband Darryl leaves for work as usual, but never returns. She hires private eye Shepard to find him. Soon he discovers that David had a se...

Bloodhounds of Broadway

Bloodhounds of Broadway

1989

as Johnny Crackow

5.6
Acting

This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hort...

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

1989

as Self

6.7
Acting

The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.

Let It Ride

Let It Ride

1989

as Johnny Casino

6.3
Acting

An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he be...

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

1989

as Vito

7.8
Acting

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzer...

Shannon's Deal

Shannon's Deal

1989

as Wilmer Slade

Acting

A washed-up lawyer refuses to take a bribe and instead goes after the South American drug cartel that's trying to push those in its way. Pilot for the...

China Lake

China Lake

1989

as Connie Veesk

Acting

Edmond, a compulsive TV-watcher, and his apathetic son Scooter live in a caravan in the Nevada desert. One of the highlights of Edmond's life is when ...

The Chair

The Chair

1988

as Riot Leader

2.8
Acting

A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted convict haunts it.

Tougher Than Leather

Tougher Than Leather

1988

as Bernie Carteez

5.3
Acting

Legendary hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. must find and punish the evil drug lord-record company executive who murdered their friend. Along the way, they enc...

Eight Men Out

Eight Men Out

1988

as Billy Maharg

6.9
Acting

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching...

Good Morning, Vietnam

Good Morning, Vietnam

1987

as Pvt. Abersold

7.3
Acting

A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his h...

Walker

Walker

1987

as Turley

6.4
Acting

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.

Platoon

Platoon

1986

as Sal

7.7
Acting

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck

1986

as Ritchie

5.4
Acting

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, fr...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

1986

as Garage Attendant

7.6
Acting

After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures througho...

Desperately Seeking Susan

Desperately Seeking Susan

1985

as Man With Newspapers

6.1
Acting

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken ...

Stranger Than Paradise

Stranger Than Paradise

1984

as Eddie

7.2
Acting

A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.

Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch

Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch

1984

as Interviewee

6.5
Acting

Documentary on American film director Jim Jarmusch made for German television. featuring interviews with cast and crew from 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦 and...

Stranger Than Paradise

Stranger Than Paradise

1983

as Eddie

7.4
Acting

30-minute short subject film that would become Stranger Than Paradise. This short was released as a standalone film in 1982, and shown as "Stranger Th...

Vortex

Vortex

1982

Music

5.6

A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate b...