Biography
Edward Ernest "Judge" Reinhold, Jr. (born May 21, 1957) is an American actor, perhaps best known for co-starring in movies such as Beverly Hills Cop, Ruthless People, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and The Santa Clause trilogy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Judge Reinhold, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Complete Filmography

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
2024
as Billy Rosewood
Forty years after his unforgettable first case in Beverly Hills, Detroit cop Axel Foley returns to do what he does best: solve crimes and cause chaos.

Four Christmases and a Wedding
2017
as Russ Peterson
When event planner Chloe is hired to plan the local Christmas Festival, she is beyond thrilled to embrace the challenge. Professionally, everything is...

Bad Grandmas
2017
as Harry
Four grandmothers accidentally kill a conman and, to cover it up, they get rid of the body. When the conman's partner shows up, things go south.

My Many Sons
2016
The life story of legendary basketball coach Don Meyer.

Broken: A Musical
2015
as Mr. Pierce
Mona returns to the city to renew her life with her best friend Helen following her grandmother's death. Mona reluctantly attends a raucous party with...

I Am Potential
2015
as Dr. Greg Byrne
A father's journey to help his blind and wheel-chair bound son to overcome impossible odds and allow the world to see his God-given potential.

Frames
2015
as Narrator
A nearsighted young man finds his identity and true love through a pair of prescription glasses.

Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as Ken Kessler (archive footage)
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovat...

Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts
2009
as Network Executive
Maya Dolittle can talk to animals. She gets discovered and Tiffany Monaco, a Hollywood star, brings her to L.A. to help her little puppy, who turns ou...

Swing Vote
2008
as Walter
In a remarkable turn of events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote.

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
2006
as Neil Miller
Now that Santa and Mrs. Claus have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve!...

Hermie & Friends: Stanley the Stinkbug Goes to Camp
2006
as Stanley (voice)
There's someone new coming to the garden's Summer Camp this year, and, well he has a problem. He stinks. But that's what stinkbug do. So, when Stanley...

Crab Orchard
2005
A lifelong city boy finds that life in the country isn't nearly as horrible as he suspected it would be after being sent to live with his elderly gran...

Betaville
2005
as Gen. Efron Norbert
An out-of-this-world comedy cast stars in this spaced-out futuristic family comedy. Welcome to Betaville, the world’s most exclusive summer camp, wher...

Checking Out
2005
as Barry Apple(baum)
A feisty octogenarian on the verge of his ninetieth birthday invites his three grown children to his upcoming birthday celebration with the explicit u...

The Hollow
2004
as Carl
The presence of Ichabod Crane's descendant in Sleepy Hollow conjures the Headless Horseman to return and resume his spooky slaughtering.

Clifford's Really Big Movie
2004
as Larry (voice)
Fearing that he costs too much to feed, Clifford decides to join a traveling carnival so he can enter a talent contest in hopes of winning a lifetime ...

Holiday Reunion
2003
as Dr. Mitch Snider
All Mitch Snider wants for his family is a traditional holiday feast with the relatives. The problem is that he doesn't have any. That is until he get...

No Place Like Home
2002
as Jack McGregor
Mel and Mac are looking for an asteroid to show as a science project. It's hard to do science when they are fighting all the time as (younger) brother...

The Santa Clause 2
2002
as Neil Miller
Better watch out! The big guy in red is coming to town once again. This time, Scott Calvin -- also known as Santa Claus -- finds out there's an obscur...

Dead in a Heartbeat
2002
as Lt. Tom Royko
An unlikely duo, Lieutenant Tom Royko of the Seattle Bomb Squad and renowned heart surgeon, Dr. Gillian Hayes, find themselves in a race against time ...

Whacked!
2002
as Peter Klein
Mark and Tony may be adopted, but they're as tight as brothers can be. They even have the same occupation: They're double-dealing hit men, one for the...

Beethoven's 4th
2001
as Richard Newton
The family is pleasantly surprised and puzzled when Beethoven suddenly becomes obedient. Turns out it's a prince and the pauper scenario, with the rea...

Ping!
2001
as Louie
Ping is a chihuahua rescued from the pound by nearsighted Ethel, who thinks he's a cat. When a pair of bumbling thieves try to break into Ethel's hous...

The Meeksville Ghost
2001
as Lucius C. Meeks
A cowboy ghost, one young man, a mother and son separated at his birth by a disapproving father, dream / time travel, a big fiery accident, a small to...

Project: Human Weapon
2001
as Evan Mink
Griffin Michael is the only survivor of a top-secret C.I.A. program that raised five people to become superweapons—human killing machines. Griffin has...

North Hollywood
2001
as Judge Reinhold
A group of struggling actors sharing a house in Hollywood together.

Hollywood Palms
2000
as Michael
Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie looks at how people there live, and the intertwining stories of the re...

Enemies of Laughter
2000
as Sam
Nerdy-looking Paul is a neurotic, failed sitcom writer with a lackluster love life. But his best pal has an idea that might turn things around when he...
Wild Blue
2000
as Ray Walker
A touching story about the relationship of an American pilot named Ray Walker with a boy and his family on a ranch in New Zealand. Bill, the grandfath...

Newsbreak
2000
as Jake McCallum
A reporter risks his life to get to the bottom of a stack of lies, corruption and murder surrounding the opening of a local power plant.

Beethoven's 3rd
2000
as Richard Newton
Everyone's favorite St. Bernard returns in this family film about man's best friend. Richard Newton, his wife Beth and kids Brennan and Sara shove off...

Big Monster on Campus
2000
as Mr. Stein
A student receives a serial killer's brain in a transplant after being thrown into a pool with no water in it.

Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1999
This documentary is featured on the Collector's Edition, High School Reunion Edition, and Awesome Special Edition DVDs for 'Fast Times at Ridgemont Hi...

My Brother the Pig
1999
as Richard Caldwell
When a spell turns an 8-year-old boy into a swine, his sister and best friend race to find the cure.

Puss in Boots
1999
as Gunther (voice)
Handsome Gunther is a young man with only one possession...a walking and talking cat! This crazy Puss is the cleverest creature in the Kingdom and he'...
Coming Unglued
1999
as Paul Hartwood
12 year old Jason mistakenly suspects his parents are splitting up when his Dad announces he's leaving for a job interview in chicago. I n very funny ...

NetForce
1999
as Will Stiles
Set in the year 2005, a division of the FBI, called "NetForce" has been initiated to investigate Internet crime. A Bill Gates-type character finds a l...

Walking Across Egypt
1999
as Robert Rigsbee
An elderly widow befriends an orphaned juvenile delinquent.

The Visual Bible For Kids - The Birth of Jesus
1998
A cozy fire. Cookies and cocoa. And a favorite uncle, played by Kirk Cameron (Growing Pains), to read the Christmas Story. It's tree trimming night fo...

Floating Away
1998
as Lloyd
After losing custody of her infant child to her domineering husband, a distressed woman's cross country search for family becomes a journey of self di...

Homegrown
1998
as Policeman
Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they learn that their boss has been murdered. They know...

Last Lives
1997
as Merkhan
A telepathic terrorist from a parallel universe kidnaps a woman on her wedding day. The groom tracks them down after receiving assistance from the inv...

Crackerjack 2
1997
as Jack Wild
Police officer Jack Wild discovers that the well-known international terrorist Hans Becker is on a train, carrying a wealthy business man and his girl...

Runaway Car
1997
as Ed Lautner
A nurse apprentice, who had a bad day at work, meets a computer programmer at a car garage. The man is urged to go somewhere, but his car is not ready...

Family Plan
1997
as Jeffrey Chase
A bumbling guy takes a group of orphans to summer camp.

Special Report: Journey to Mars
1996
as Ryan West
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission and the...

The Wharf Rat
1996
as Doc
Two brothers live on the opposite sides of the law. One a cop, the other working the waterfront as a crooked businessman. When the policeman is myster...

The Right to Remain Silent
1996
as Buford Lowry
Bright and eager to hit the streets in search of bad guys, rookie cop Christine Paley is disappointed when she's instead assigned to process criminals...

As Good as Dead
1995
as Ron Holden / Aaron Warfield
When Susan moves to L.A., she befriends party girl Nicole. Nicole suffers from painful stomach ulcers but cannot be treated without insurance. Susan d...

Dad, the Angel & Me
1995
as Jason Fielder
A divorced doctor finds himself in real trouble living with his daughter alone now. But fortunately a guardian angel is watching over the lives of bot...

The Santa Clause
1994
as Neal
On Christmas Eve, divorced dad Scott Calvin and his son discover Santa Claus has fallen off their roof. When Scott takes the reins of the magical slei...

Beverly Hills Cop III
1994
as Billy Rosewood
When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World. Returnin...

Bank Robber
1993
as Officer Gross
After robbing a bank, the robber hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tennants for protection as well as the...

Baby on Board
1992
as Ernie
Maria (Carol Kane) is the wife of a murdered Mafia bookkeeper. With her baby in tow, she tracks the hitman to the airport, intending to shoot the man....

Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992
as Earnest Allbright
Ernest Albright opens his eyeglass store in what he thinks is a thriving community, but soon discovers that his store is just a shabby shack in Tombst...

Black Magic
1992
as Alex Gage
A young man is tormented by visions of his dead cousin who attempts to warn him of a Witch capable of casting deadly spells!
Near Mrs.
1992
as Claude Jobert
A philandering executive tries to juggle two wives and a mistress, and finds himself suddenly being shadowed by some angry Russian holdouts from the C...

Zandalee
1991
as Thierry Martin
Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative an...

Zandalee
1991
Producer
Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative an...

Enid Is Sleeping
1990
as Harry
Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry in bed with her sister June, a row ensued, where...

Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
1990
as Harmony
Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed.

Rosalie Goes Shopping
1989
as The Priest
Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit ca...

A Soldier's Tale
1988
as The Yank
In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach ...

Promised a Miracle
1988
as Larry Parker
True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted i...

Vice Versa
1988
as Marshall Seymour
A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.

The New Homeowner's Guide to Happiness
1987
as Paul Darden
When Paul and Sandy Darden (Judge Reinhold and Demi Moore) move into a seemingly quiet upper-middle-class community, their American Dream is all but d...

The New Homeowner's Guide to Happiness
1987
Executive Producer
When Paul and Sandy Darden (Judge Reinhold and Demi Moore) move into a seemingly quiet upper-middle-class community, their American Dream is all but d...

Beverly Hills Cop II
1987
as Billy Rosewood
Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sg...

Ruthless People
1986
as Ken Kessler
Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exc...

Off Beat
1986
as Joe Gower
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance perform...

Love Struck
1986
Love Struck is a 1986 short film directed by Richard Masur, starring John Simon Jones and Judge Reinhold. In this modern American romance, an awkward,...

Head Office
1985
as Jack Issel
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But...

Beverly Hills Cop
1984
as Det. Billy Rosewood
Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, ...
Booker
1984
as Newt
Booker tells the true story of Booker T. Washington, who, as a young slave, dreams of learning to read and write. After the Civil War frees him, Booke...

Roadhouse 66
1984
as Beckman Hallsgood Jr.
Beckman driving a '55 Thunderbird on Route 66 hooks up with Johnny after hoodlum Hoot and his gang shoot his car. Continuous conflicts between Hoot an...

Gremlins
1984
as Gerald Hopkins
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unlea...

A Matter of Sex
1984
as Tobe Rasmussen
Dramatization of the true story of the so-called Willmar Eight, a group of Minnesota bank workers who braved freezing conditions whilst picketing thei...

The Lords of Discipline
1983
as Macabbee
Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first ti...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982
as Brad Hamilton
Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. S...

Pandemonium
1982
as Glenn Dandy
A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of...

Stripes
1981
as Elmo
John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the US Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.

Running Scared
1980
as Leroy Beecher
It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military f...

The Survival of Dana
1979
as Francis 'Bear' Honfi
High school student Dana moves to the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles after her North Dakota parents get divorced and falls in with the wrong crowd...