Richard Edson

Q: Has Richard Edson won any awards?

Richard Edson has not won major awards but has received praise for his performances in independent films and has been a respected figure in the indie film community.

Q: What was Richard Edson's first film?

Richard Edson's first film was 'Stranger Than Paradise,' directed by Jim Jarmusch, which premiered in 1984 and marked the beginning of his acting career.

Q: What are some of Richard Edson's most successful films?

Some of Richard Edson's most successful films include 'Do the Right Thing,' 'Stranger Than Paradise,' and 'The Last Temptation of Christ,' which are highly regarded in cinema.

Q: What is known about Richard Edson's personal life?

Richard Edson was married to Michele D. from 1992 to 1997 and has one child. Details about his personal life are kept relatively private.

Q: What is Richard Edson's estimated net worth?

Richard Edson's estimated net worth is reported to be around $1 million, reflecting his work in film and television over the years.

Q: What milestones are present in Richard Edson's filmography?

Milestones in Richard Edson's filmography include his collaborations with Jim Jarmusch and his roles in culturally significant films that shaped independent cinema in the 1980s.

Q: What is Richard Edson's acting style?

Richard Edson is known for his unique ability to portray eccentric and relatable characters, often bringing a naturalistic approach to his performances.

Known for

Platoon (1986)

IMDb 8.1 / 10

1986 / Drama, War / 120 min

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

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

IMDb 7.8 / 10

1986 / Comedy / 103 min

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

Name

Richard Edson

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

22 January 1962, New York City, New York, USA

Spouses

Michele D. (1992–1997)

Children

1 child, name not publicly known

Parents

Richard Edson Sr., Joan Edson

Estimated Net Worth

$1 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	Movie The Code Early-pandemic, Jay and Celine head to a rental house to reconnect. While Celine films a documentary on their disintegrating relationship,...	Jay's Dad	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2019	Movie 3 from Hell After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But...	Carlos Perro	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2019	Movie To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell A look at the production of Rob Zombie's 3 from Hell.	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2018	Movie Brothers in Arms Charlie Sheen narrates, as cast and crew share their personal experiences making the Academy Award winning film, Platoon. This non-union,...	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2018	Movie Burning Shadow Charlie, a down-on-his-luck loner, crosses paths with a blind homeless man who is his exact double. Perplexed and intrigued by...	Ronald	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2018	Movie Dream Murder Machine An unstable women channels Ingrid Bergman to overcome her fears.	Unknown character	Not rated
2016	Movie Where is Rocky II? Pierre Bismuth hires a private detective and a duo of screenwriters to investigate on an enigmatic artwork.	Ted Simmons (segment: "Monument One")	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2015	Movie Dutch Book A Florida teenager launches a scheme to pay off his father's gambling debts.	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2014	Movie Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game A documentary about the making of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie.	Self - Spike	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2014	Movie 3 Holes and a Smoking Gun An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a battle of wits with a...	Sam Dunkim	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2014	Movie Dark Hearts When struggling artist Colson finds his muse in sultry singer Fran, their daring romance spirals out of control into a...	Ravetti	TMDB 3.6 / 10
2013	Movie Space Cadet Paul, a preoccupied 15-year old, tries to be helpful by cooking the family dinner, but nearly blows the place up...	Nick Agnello	Not rated
2012	TV Vegas Ralph Lamb wants to be left in peace to run his ranch, but Las Vegas is now swelling with outsiders...	Arthur Speziali	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2012	TV Perception Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge...	Keith Trevoy	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2011	Movie The Smell of Success When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livelihood of its...	Nelly the Nose	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2011	TV Franklin & Bash When they're not hanging out at their favorite hot dog stand pontificating on what they'd go through to enjoy a...	Bruce Conti	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2011	TV Happy Endings A fresh and funny take on modern friendship and what one urban family will do to stay friends after the...	Valet Guy	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2010	Movie Happiness Runs The neglected child of parents living on a commune, Victor is helpless to resist the atmosphere of sex and drugs...	Pete	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2009	Movie The Greims	Larry	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2009	Movie Black Dynamite This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local...	Dino	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2009	Movie Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later In this documentary directed by Spike Lee, he interviews the cast and crew of his 1989 film DO THE RIGHT...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2008	Movie Columbus Day A thief tries to fix the damage done during the biggest heist of his career.	Manny	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2008	Movie Momma's Man An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.	Tom	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2007	Movie The Astronaut Farmer Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died....	Chopper Miller	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2006	Movie Hard Scrambled When the owner of a venerable diner in the wrong part of town has an "accident" the men in her...	Joe	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2005	Movie The Kid & I Aaron Roman is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father...	Guy Prince	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2005	TV Numb3rs Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an...	Nick Rowland	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2004	Movie Frankenfish When the body of a man is found completely destroyed in the swamps in Louisiana, the medical investigator Sam Rivers...	Roland	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2004	Movie Goodnight, Joseph Parker Unapologetically brash in dialogue and texture GOODNIGHT JOSEPH PARKER is the classic love story brought to a no-pleasantries bar room....	Frankie	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2004	Movie Land of Plenty After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic...	Jimmy	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2004	Movie Starsky & Hutch Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The...	Monix	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2003	TV Cold Case The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved....	Seth Lundgren (2008)	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2002	TV CSI: Miami The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their...	Quentin Haid	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2002	Movie Sunshine State A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family,...	Steve Tregaskis	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2002	Movie Apartment #5C Nicky and Uri, two young Israeli, arrive in New York, living off small theft. They set down in a very...	Harold	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2001	Movie Some Days in January, 1984 A short behind-the-scenes documentary shot and edited on Super 8 by filmmaker Tom Jarmusch, director Jim Jarmusch’s brother, during the...	Unknown character	Not rated
2001	Movie Southlander: Diary of a Desperate Musician Chance, a hapless Los Angeles musician is searching for the coveted Moletron synthesizer through the classified ad paper the "Southlander",...	Thomas	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2001	Movie I am Josh Polonski's Brother Three brothers, Abe, Ben and Josh work in a textile shop and live a relatively quiet life until one day...	Abe Polonski	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2000	Movie Jack of Hearts A cop looking for a chance to redeem himself comes up against a man who has built a fortune out...	Henry	TMDB 3.1 / 10
2000	Movie Desperate But Not Serious Lily is a twenty-something aspiring writer who receives an invitation to attend a wedding reception with Jonathan, a handsome entomologist...	Screenwriter	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2000	Movie Timecode A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker...	Lester Moore	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2000	Movie Cement Take a walk on the seamy side of town, where you can’t tell the difference between the bad cops and...	Robbo	TMDB 4.1 / 10
2000	Movie The Million Dollar Hotel A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.	Joe	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1999	Movie Thick as Thieves Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first,...	Danny	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1999	Movie The Shade The first film of New York-based French director Raphael Nadjari is an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Gentle Creature, which had...	Simon	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1999	Movie Purgatory An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks,...	Euripides	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1998	Movie Lulu on the Bridge A famous jazz saxophonist's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.	Dave Reilly	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1997	Movie Double Tap A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.	Fischer	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1997	Movie This World, Then the Fireworks In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through...	Joe	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1997	Movie Snide and Prejudice At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe they are important Nazi figures to...	Rudolph Hess	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1997	Movie Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon In the midst of a war between Venice and Genoa, Marco Polo, a citizen of Venice, is imprisoned by the...	Bergman	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1996	Movie An Occasional Hell A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the murder of her unfaithful husband...	Rodney Gillen	TMDB 3.6 / 10
1996	Movie Wedding Bell Blues Micki, Tanya and Jasmine have 24 hours to get divorced. There's just one problem...They're still single. When Jasmine, Tanya and...	Tom	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1996	Movie Scorpion Spring On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...	Lem Wells	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1996	Movie The Winner A long lucky streak makes a nice guy the target of opportunists like his brother, his girlfriend, and some guys...	Frankie	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1996	Movie Things I Never Told You Don is a real estate salesman who volunteers at a "hotline for hope". Ann, who works in a photo store,...	Steve	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1996	TV Nash Bridges Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using...	Jared Love	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1996	Movie Intimate Betrayal Two old friends reunite before a wedding to put the sins of their past behind them. What starts out as...	Charlie Dunn	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1995	Movie Strange Days In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of...	Tick	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1995	TV American Gothic Everything is not what it seems in Trinity, South Carolina. Sheriff Lucas Buck develops a sinister interest in Caleb. Caleb's...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1995	Movie Destiny Turns on the Radio Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in...	Gage	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1995	Movie Jury Duty When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself...	Skeets	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1994	Movie Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman When an abused heiress grows to giant size because of her encounter with aliens, she decides to get revenge on...	Tony	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1994	TV ER ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and...	Vinnie La Fontaine	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1994	TV Chicago Hope Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September...	Anthony Tedesco	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1994	Movie Motorcycle Gang On their way to California, the biggest decision Leann Morris and her family have to make is where to stop...	Volker	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1994	TV Rebel Highway Rebel Highway is a 1994 revival of American International Pictures, created and produced by Lou Arkoff, the son of Samuel...	Volker	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1993	Movie Love, Cheat & Steal Paul Harrington thinks he has the perfect wife... stunning, kind, and ambitious. Yet behind Lauren's pretty face lies a wicked...	Billy Quayle	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1993	Movie Super Mario Bros. Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're...	Spike	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1993	Movie Posse A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the...	Deputy Tom	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1993	Movie Joey Breaker Joey is a player, a hot-shot movie agent in New York. If a deal can be made, he'll make it....	Joey Breaker	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1993	TV Homicide: Life on the Street An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.	Danny Newton	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1993	Movie What About Me After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York.	Nick	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1992	Movie Crossing the Bridge A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in...	Mitchell	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1992	Movie Love Is Like That A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out,...	Bubba-Lilly	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1991	Movie Eyes of an Angel John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon...	Goon	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1991	Movie Murder in High Places A small Colorado mountain town elects as its mayor a writer whom some residents consider "eccentric" and others don't care...	Noogie	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1991	Movie Fourth Story Valerie's husband Darryl leaves for work as usual, but never returns. She hires private eye Shepard to find him. Soon...	Mechanic	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1990	TV Shannon's Deal Shannon's Deal is an American legal drama. The show centers on a successful Philadelphia corporate lawyer named Jack Shannon, who...	Wilmer Slade	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1989	Movie Bloodhounds of Broadway This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body...	Johnny Crackow	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1989	Movie Making 'Do the Right Thing' The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.	Self	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1989	Movie Let It Ride An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems...	Johnny Casino	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1989	Movie Do the Right Thing Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees...	Vito	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1989	Movie Shannon's Deal A washed-up lawyer refuses to take a bribe and instead goes after the South American drug cartel that's trying to...	Wilmer Slade	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1989	Movie China Lake Edmond, a compulsive TV-watcher, and his apathetic son Scooter live in a caravan in the Nevada desert. One of the...	Connie Veesk	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1988	TV Monsters Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel...	Jack Bateman	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1988	Movie The Chair A psychologist, a psychiatrist and a prison warden open up a long-closed prison, unaware that the ghost of an electrocuted...	Riot Leader	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1988	Movie Tougher Than Leather 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...	Bernie Carteez	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1988	Movie Eight Men Out Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles...	Billy Maharg	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1987	Movie Good Morning, Vietnam A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the...	Pvt. Abersold	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1987	Movie Walker William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a...	Turley	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1986	Movie Platoon As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of...	Sal	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1986	TV Crime Story The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.	Jake Rennick	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1986	TV L.A. Law L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986,...	Carver Bowles	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1986	Movie Howard the Duck A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake,...	Ritchie	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1986	Movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes...	Garage Attendant	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1985	Movie Desperately Seeking Susan A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads...	Man With Newspapers	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1984	Movie Stranger Than Paradise New York layabout Willie forms an unexpected bond with his young Hungarian cousin Eva when she pays him a surprise...	Eddie	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1984	TV Miami Vice The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on...	Wavey Davey	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1984	Movie Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch Documentary on American film director Jim Jarmusch made for German television. featuring interviews with cast and crew from 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯...	Interviewee	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1983	Movie Stranger Than Paradise 30-minute short subject film that would become Stranger Than Paradise. This short was released as a standalone film in 1982,...	Eddie	TMDB 7.5 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
1982	Movie Vortex A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through...	Music Sound	TMDB 5.7 / 10

The Code

2025 / TMDB 6.8

To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell

2019 / TMDB 6.0

3 from Hell

2019 / TMDB 5.8

Brothers in Arms

2018 / TMDB 5.8

Burning Shadow

2018 / TMDB 6.1

Dream Murder Machine

2018

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