Richard Venture

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1923-11-12

New Jersey, USA

Biography

Richard Venture (November 12, 1923 - December 19, 2017) was an American actor, known for Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Scent of a Woman (1992) and Missing (1982).

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {84}

Lead Actor

1978-04-14 6

Stickin' Together

A Hawaiian beach bum finds himself surrogate uncle to five orphaned children, helping them stay together, in this pilot movie for a TV series which turned up briefly in the spring of 1979 as "The Mack ...

Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, TV Movie

Ambassador Reed

1997-10-30 6.33

Red Corner

An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

W.R. Slade

1992-12-23 7.8

Scent of a Woman

Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving l ...

Genre :Drama

Glenn Bates

1979-09-09 6

The Onion Field

An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survi ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Arthur

1990-03-07 0

Andre's Mother

Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother is the story of Katherine Gerard (Sada Thompson) who has lost her son to AIDS. Set at Andre's memorial service, the fil ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

1991-12-08 0

One Special Victory

A fact-based story, John Larroquette plays a hotshot executive that ends up in court over a certain charge. He is sentenced to community service. He is assigned to coach a basketball team of mentally ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Dr. Haas

1980-05-05 4.75

Off the Minnesota Strip

A teenage runaway attempts to readjust to home and family life in Minnesota after returning home after years of working on the streets of New York City as a hooker and tries desperately to regain her ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Wilson

1979-12-19 7.587

Being There

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what h ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

U.S. Ambassador

1982-02-12 7.241

Missing

Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his s ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Doctor

1977-10-19 6.311

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual act ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Franklin

2001-01-20 6.254

Series 7: The Contenders

A reality TV program selects six contestants to participate in a free-for-all, no holds barred deathmatch, where they must skillfully outwit and kill each other in order to be the last person alive. ...

Genre :Action, Comedy, Thriller

Judge Klein

1994-10-14 6.25

Imaginary Crimes

A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1960s Portland, Oregon. ...

Genre :Drama

Police Inspector

1976-04-01 6.8

Helter Skelter

The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family". ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie, Horror

Man in Motel

1974-02-24 5.8

Man on a Swing

When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her killer. Flamboyant self-proclaimed psychic Franklin Wi ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller, Mystery

Dan Hatten

1983-02-27 6.6

Cocaine: One Man's Seduction

A 47-year-old real estate salesman gets trapped in the insidious web of cocaine addiction. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

The 1st Man

1965-07-25 6.2

Dark Intruder

Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders. ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery

Floyd

1972-12-20 7.3

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have ...

Genre :Drama

Gower

1986-08-22 6.2

Touch and Go

A Chicago hockey star is accosted by a youth gang who attempt to rob him; after he chases them off he catches the youngest member and gives him a ride home, where he meets the boy's mother. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Fenton

1977-05-12 0

Danger in Paradise

A young man has to battle his greedy stepmother for control of his father's huge estate. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Brevard Holt

1986-05-18 6.2

As Summers Die

Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threatened by the Holts, the first family of the town, af ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Roger

1977-06-12 0

Corey: For the People

A wealthy socialite is accused of killing her husband. She claims self-defense as a battered wife, and the district attorney plans to go along with that. However, an assistant district attorney files ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Earl Dorius

1982-09-10 5.7

The Executioner's Song

In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised rom ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Mr. Hourgil

1981-05-19 3

The Violation of Sarah McDavid

Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in a ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Colonel

1977-05-17 5.4

The Greatest

Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the Army draft and the legal battle after being stri ...

Genre :Drama

Assistant Metro Editor

1976-04-09 7.655

All the President's Men

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post. ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Arthur Fairlain

1980-12-08 6

My Kidnapper, My Love

Small-time crook Rooney cons his crippled brother, a street-wise news vendor, into snatching a wealthy, emotionally-disturbed runaway to extort money from her parents, but the brother throws the get-r ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, TV Movie

Jack Morris

1977-06-06 5.5

A Sensitive, Passionate Man

The marriage of a wealthy, outwardly happy couple is threatened by the husband's alcoholism. ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Dr. Neil Holzer

1981-05-11 5.1

The Best Little Girl in the World

Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to co ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Pete Spota

1980-08-01 5.914

The Hunter

During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunt ...

Genre :Thriller, Action, Comedy

Judge Richard Barber

1980-10-30 5.5

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the prosecution of her husband, John, charging him with r ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Judge

1987-10-25 3.5

Family Sins

Gordon has a loving wife and two sons, Bryan and Keith, but he favors his spoiled younger son Keith over Bryan, who is defiant and not good at sports. As Gordon begins to yell and hit Bryan, Bryan's b ...

Genre :Horror, Thriller, TV Movie

Cardinal of Palermo

1987-10-07 5.2

The Sicilian

Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Alexander Sachs

1980-11-23 5.7

Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb

The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, bringing World War II to a close. ...

Genre :War, History, TV Movie

Dr. David Bradley

1986-01-01 4.667

Second Serve

Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashback to 1964 before she was out as trans, a successfu ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Colonel Meyers

1986-12-05 6.884

Heartbreak Ridge

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude. ...

Genre :War, Drama

Fergy

1976-01-01 7

Diary of the Dead

An unemployed man who lives with his wife and overbearing mother-in-law sees an opportunity to relieve himself of the old bat, which tangles him in a maze of deception. ...

Genre :Thriller

Lt. Cmdr. Leo Altobelli

1984-01-12 5.3

Street Hawk: The Movie

Feature-length pilot of the 1980s action series following the exploits of motorbike riding superhero Jesse Mach (Rex Smith). Deskbound after being seriously injured in an accident that left his collea ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

Admiral Colker

1990-07-20 5.4

Navy Seals

During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discovers that a terrorist group has access to deadly, US-built Stinger missiles and must set out to locate and destroy them before they can be used. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Thriller

Ellinger

1979-10-10 4

The Last Word

When politicians try to force out a renter in a corrupt real-estate deal, the man decides to take matters into his own hands. He takes a police officer hostage, hoping to expose the scam and save his ...

Genre :Comedy

Dr. Paul Jessup

1979-09-16 8

The Tenth Month

An unmarried, middle-aged woman accidentally gets pregnant by an internationally renowned pianist and decides to keep and raise the baby on her own. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, TV Movie

James St. Clair

1989-10-29 6.8

The Final Days

The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency. ...

Genre :History, TV Movie, Drama

Commander Guay

1977-03-11 5.6

Airport '77

Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all wh ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Judge Harold Stankey

1981-03-15 6

Chicago Story

A pair of cops, a pair of doctors, and a pair of lawyers examine a crime — the wounding of a ten-year-old girl by a sniper — from three different angles in this pilot to the short-lived series. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Joe Kane

1977-01-27 2

Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye

Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Alan Davidson

1989-04-23 0

The Littlest Victims

A true account of the life of pioneering AIDS doctor James Oleske. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Don Boylar

1996-07-04 6.525

Courage Under Fire

A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female chopper commander's worthiness to be awarded the Meda ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, Mystery, War

John Osborne

1981-12-04 5.527

Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series r ...

Genre :Soap, Drama

Agent Bert Carlyle

1982-09-22 7.226

Family Ties

Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Family

Defense Attorney Douglas Greer

1990-09-13 7.365

Law & Order

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Mack Brackman

1993-08-27 7.048

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

A tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man and Harvard-educated smarty-britches roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed his father...and in search of a mysterious orb posse ...

Genre :Western, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Abe Lassen

1986-09-15 7

L.A. Law

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many o ...

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Hilliard

1975-09-10 7.25

Starsky & Hutch

Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime

Second Detective

1963-10-10 5.3

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Genre :Mystery, Drama

1982-01-07 6.8

Fame

An American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show is based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. With a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the ...

Genre :Drama

Milton

1985-09-14 7.6

The Golden Girls

Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely, mismatched ladies form the perfect circle of friend ...

Genre :Comedy

1976-10-03 7.504

Quincy, M.E.

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Lt. Cmdr. Leo Altobelli

1985-01-04 6.848

Street Hawk

Street Hawk is an American television series that aired for 13 episodes on ABC in 1985. The series is a Limekiln and Templar Production in association with Universal Television. Its central characters ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

1981-01-15 7.6

Hill Street Blues

A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Simpson

1979-12-27 6.7

Knots Landing

The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community. ...

Genre :Drama, Soap

1982-10-02 7.1

Newhart

Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Tod ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Capt. Reardon

1973-10-24 7.02

Kojak

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City. ...

Genre :Crime, Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery

1972-09-14 7.2

The Waltons

The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II. ...

Genre :Drama

1974-09-12 4.6

Harry O

After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach h ...

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

1974-09-13 6.2

Police Woman

Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

1973-03-20 6.9

Police Story

Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of polic ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

1977-09-15 5.2

Carter Country

Carter Country is an American television sitcom that ran from 1977 to 1979 on ABC. ...

Genre :Comedy

1991-09-20 7.5

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge is an American television program which aired on CBS between 1991 and 1993. It is about a Jewish American family living in Brooklyn in the middle 1950s. The premise was partially based ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Ray

1985-01-21 4.5

MacGruder and Loud

MacGruder and Loud is an American crime drama from Aaron Spelling Productions that aired on ABC in 1985. The series stars John Getz and Kathryn Harrold as married police officers Malcolm MacGruder an ...

Genre :Drama

1996-02-05 6

Second Noah

Second Noah is a television drama that was broadcast in the United States on ABC television from February 5, 1996 to June 8, 1997 ...

Genre :Drama

1980-03-14 5

When the Whistle Blows

Short-lived comedy about construction workers enjoying themselves. The crew was all male except for Lucy – Randy the college grad; Buzz the extrovert; Martin the hunk; Norm, an older man married to Do ...

Genre :Comedy

1975-09-09 7

Joe Forrester

Genre :Drama, Crime

Al Kozarian

1993-08-20 0

The Boys

The Boys is an American sitcom television series that aired from August 20 until September 17, 1993. ...

Genre :Comedy

Charles Relkie

1975-01-23 7.318

Barney Miller

Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ...

Genre :Comedy

Leonard West

1989-07-05 8.252

Seinfeld

A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing. ...

Genre :Comedy

Richard

1978-01-23 7.6

The Dark Secret of Harvest Home

A New York commercial artist and his wife and daughter move to a quiet, rustic New England village they visited during their travels, only to find themselves mixed up in ritualistic lifestyle full of ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Robert Smith

1973-10-24 7.02

Kojak

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City. ...

Genre :Crime, Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Fred Metcalf

1974-09-13 7.585

The Rockford Files

Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dr. Benjamin Crist

1974-09-13 7.585

The Rockford Files

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Simmons

1993-09-02 6.7

The John Larroquette Show

The John Larroquette Show is an American television sitcom .The show was a vehicle for John Larroquette following his run as Dan Fielding on Night Court. The series takes place in a seedy bus terminal ...

Genre :Comedy

Edgar Bickford

1987-05-21 6

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a widely changing career, difficulties of apartment living, love life and its consequences, and more. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Col. Jack Delbart

1979-02-14 6.8

From Here to Eternity

The lives of the men and families of G Company, 24th Infantry Division, United States Army, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor. ...

Genre :War & Politics, Drama

1985-01-23 7.5

Sara

A newly minted attorney joins the legal aid clinic in San Francisco where her best friend works. ...

Genre :Comedy

George Latimer

1984-09-30 7.531

Murder, She Wrote

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases. ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Lionel Carew

1989-02-28 6.7

Coach

Hayden Fox, the curmudgeonly coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles football team, tries to navigate his way through the sports world, fatherhood and family life without dropping the b ...