Ron Rifkin
Know for: Acting
Born: 1939-10-31
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Also know as:
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings...
Silent Running (1972)
After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions....
Dragonfly (2002)
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
Wolf (1994)
Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a...
Keeping the Faith (2000)
Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper...
Rabbit Test (1978)
Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!
The Majestic (2001)
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a...
The Chosen (1981)
In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families.
The Negotiator (1998)
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an...
Pulse (2006)
When the dead discover a means to contact the living through electronic devices, cellphones and computers become open gateways to monstrosities and...
Flowers for Algernon (2000)
Charlie Gordon is mentally handicapped and all he wants in life is to be a genius. When he gets picked for experimental surgery it looks like his...
Boiler Room (2000)
A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm and is on the fast track to success—but the job might not be as...
The Big Fix (1978)
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is...
The Day the Bubble Burst (1982)
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.
The Sunshine Boys (1975)
Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't...
Buying a Landslide (1992)
Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky...
Queen Esther (1992)
This Hanna-Barbera animated video tells a version of the Bible story about Esther, whose heroism is commemorated annually by the feast of Purim....
The Words (2012)
The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel....
Flareup (1969)
A Las Vegas go-go dancer moves to Los Angeles to escape the psycho who has killed her partners.
Courage (1986)
A mother in Queens, New York, outraged when she discovers that her son is a drug addict, becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug...
A Question of Guilt (1978)
A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.
The Substance of Fire (1996)
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the...
Sam the Man (2001)
A writer having difficulty completing his second novel goes on a journey of self-discovery.
Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995)
Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles....
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987)
A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention...
Drop Back Ten (2000)
After an expose on NFL players causes a series of lawsuits, a reporter gets fired. A loyal editor nonetheless gives him a freelance story to work on....
Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996)
This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to...
Do You Remember Love (1985)
Barbara Wyatt-Hollis is an English professor who begins to experience the effects of Alzheimer's. The film documents her decline and the emotional...
Funny Pages (2022)
A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.
Husbands and Wives (1992)
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are...
Another Woman's Child (1983)
Mike and Terry DeBray are a happily married couple whose lives change when the young daughter that Tony fathered out of wedlock suddenly appears and...
Awake and Sing! (1972)
The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a...
JFK (1991)
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
Peep World (2010)
On the day of their Father's 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, that...
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Deliberate Intent (2000)
A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a...
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia...
Red Wind (1995)
In 1940s, sympathetic African American L.A. shamus Philip Marlowe helps a dame in trouble whose lovers are offing each other over a possibly fake...
The Sting II (1983)
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim...
Sleeping Beauty (1983)
A prince chases his destiny to an ancient castle in search of a cursed princess, thanks to the help of an informative lumberjack.
Tadpole (2002)
Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire,...
Mrs. R's Daughter (1979)
When a young woman is brutally raped and beaten, her mother sets out to find justice for her.
In the Glitter Palace (1977)
The ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.
W.S.H.: The Myth of the Urban Myth (1994)
A folklorist researching an 'urban legend' becomes caught up in his task. The film tells its fictional story in documentary style, featuring...
The Ratings Game (1984)
A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business.
A Star Is Born (2018)
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to...
The Devil's Eight (1969)
The Devil's 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent (Christopher George) who recruits six convicts to bust...
The Suicide Club (1973)
A young gambler seeking greater challenges joins a card club where the members literally gamble for their lives.
Kidco (1984)
A boy who lives at a country club where his father works decides to make some extra money by selling composted horse manure as fertilizer, and has...
I'm Not Rappaport (1996)
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still...
Daddy (2019)
After the death of his wife, an 80-year-old man checks into the Plaza Hotel to celebrate their first anniversary apart, hiring a male escort to take...
True Memoirs of an International Assassin (2016)
After a publisher changes a writer's debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to nonfiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world...
Fuzz (1972)
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
They Shall Not Perish (2017)
The Near East Foundation, known initially as Near East Relief, spearheaded this first great mobilization of international humanitarian assistance in...
Minyan (2020)
In a rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem...
Get Christie Love! (1974)
Get Christie Love! is a 1974 made-for-television film starring Teresa Graves as an undercover female police detective who is determined to overthrow...
Just a Kiss (2002)
A group of thirtysomethings having problems with fidelity gets an opportunity to turn back the clock.
The Night That Panicked America (1975)
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.