Ray Sharkey
Birthday: 1952-11-14
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Biography: Raymond Sharkey Jr. (November 14, 1952 – June 11, 1993) was an American stage, film and television actor. His most notable film role was Vincent Vacarri in the 1980 film The Idolmaker, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He is also known for his role as Sonny Steelgrave in the television series Wiseguy.
Movies
Wise Guys
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they ar...
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Who'll Stop the Rain
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally bur...
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Cop & ½
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a...
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Hellhole
An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injur...
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Du-beat-e-o
A filmmaker tries to finish editing a movie about all-girl rock band Runaways....
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The Idolmaker
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalo...
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Act of Piracy
A large motor yacht becomes the focal point in this action tale when a group of mercenaries decide t...
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Some Kind of Hero
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forg...
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Love & Money
An investment planner, bored with his job and his girlfriend, is given the opportunity to help open ...
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Body Rock
A disco owner lures a New York breakdancer away from his rapping and dancing friends....
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Stunts
After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his...
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The Rain Killer
Together, a weary cop and an all business FBI agent, team up to catch the latest homicidal manic: Th...
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Hot Tomorrows
A portrait of a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-si...
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Willie & Phil
Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — beco...
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P.I. Private Investigations
A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something ...
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Paradise Alley
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other...
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The Revenge of Al Capone
After Al Capone is imprisoned, he still continues to run his empire, and plots to assassinate the ma...
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Regina Roma
An aging couple search for peace and family harmony when their only son returns home after a long ab...
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Chrome Soldiers
Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother...
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The Neon Empire
New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and ...
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The Take
An ex-Miami cop just back from prison for corruption gets caught up in the Florida drug trade....
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27 Wagons Full of Cotton
In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ...
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Caged Fear
After a jewelry theft Tommy Lane can hardly free. His girlfriend Kristen has less luck and is arrest...
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The Ordeal of Bill Carney
Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons sinc...
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Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
A wealthy Beverly Hills resident who has just become a widow, Clare Lipkin temporarily takes on her ...
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Wiseguy: Pilot
This was the feature-length pilot for the hit series. Vinnie Terranova, a Justice Department agent r...
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Round Trip to Heaven
Since Larry works at a garage, he gets to use one of the Rolls Royces. There is only one problem, th...
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Dead On: Relentless II
Detective Sam Dietz is paired with a shady FBI agent to track down another serial killer terrorizing...
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Heart Beat
An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, an...
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In the Line of Duty: Street War
In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New...
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The Cops Are Robbers
Made-for-TV drama about one of the largest crimes in history—the 1980 robbery of the Boston Deposito...
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Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Based on the story "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp", directed by Tim Burton and starring Robert Carr...
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92 Grosvenor Street
Professor-turned-spy Col. Calvin Turner and his associate, workaholic Lt. Shelley Flynn, plan a dari...
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No Mercy
An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New...
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Trackdown
When his sister Betsy packs up and leaves the family's Montana cattle ranch to find fame and fortune...
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