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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Code
2025
as Jay's Dad
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
2019
as Carlos Perro
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
2019
as Self
A look at the production of Rob Zombie's 3 from Hell.

Burning Shadow
2018
as Ronald
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
An unstable women channels Ingrid Bergman to overcome her fears.

Where is Rocky II?
2016
as Ted Simmons (segment: "Monument One")
Pierre Bismuth hires a private detective and a duo of screenwriters to investigate on an enigmatic artwork.

Dutch Book
2015
A Florida teenager launches a scheme to pay off his father's gambling debts.

Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game
2014
as Self - Spike
A documentary about the making of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie.

Three Holes, Two Brads, and a Smoking Gun
2014
as Sam Dunkim
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
2014
as Ravetti
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
2013
as Nick Agnello
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
2011
as Nelly the Nose
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
2010
as Pete
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
2009
as Larry

Black Dynamite
2009
as Dino
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
2009
as Self
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
2008
as Manny
A thief tries to fix the damage done during the biggest heist of his career.

Momma's Man
2008
as Tom
An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.

The Astronaut Farmer
2007
as Chopper Miller
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
2006
as Joe
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
2005
as Guy Prince
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
2004
as Roland
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
2004
as Frankie
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
2004
as Jimmy
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
2004
as Monix
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
2002
as Steve Tregaskis
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
2002
as Harold
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
2001
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
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
2001
as Abe Polonski
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
2000
as Henry
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
2000
as Screenwriter
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
2000
as Lester Moore
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
2000
as Robbo
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
2000
as Joe
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.

Thick as Thieves
1999
as Danny
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
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
1999
as Euripides
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
1998
as Dave Reilly
This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

Double Tap
1997
as Fischer
A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.

This World, Then the Fireworks
1997
as Joe
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
1997
as Rudolph Hess
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
1997
as Bergman
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
1996
as Rodney Gillen
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
1996
as Tom
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
1996
as Lem Wells
On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...

The Winner
1996
as Frankie
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
1996
as Steve
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
1996
as Charlie Dunn
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
1995
as Tick
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
1995
as Gage
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
1995
as Skeets
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
1994
as Tony
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
1994
as Volker
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
1993
as Billy Quayle
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.
1993
as Spike
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
1993
as Joey Breaker
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
1993
as Deputy Tom
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
1993
as Nick
After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York.

Crossing the Bridge
1992
as Mitchell
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
1992
as Bubba-Lilly
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
1991
as Goon
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
1991
as Noogie
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
1991
as Mechanic
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
1989
as Johnny Crackow
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
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.

Let It Ride
1989
as Johnny Casino
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
1989
as Vito
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
1989
as Wilmer Slade
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
1989
as Connie Veesk
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
1988
as Riot Leader
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
1988
as Bernie Carteez
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
1988
as Billy Maharg
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
1987
as Pvt. Abersold
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
1987
as Turley
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
1986
as Sal
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
1986
as Ritchie
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
1986
as Garage Attendant
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
1985
as Man With Newspapers
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
1984
as Eddie
A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.

Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch
1984
as Interviewee
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
1983
as Eddie
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
1982
Music
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...