Ron Vawter

Ron Vawter

Birthday: 1948-12-09

Place of Birth: Latham, New York, USA

Biography: Ron Vawter (December 9, 1948 – April 16, 1994) was an American actor and a founding member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group. Vawter performed in most of the group's works until his death from a heart attack in 1994 at the age of 45.

Movies

The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to int...

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sex, lies, and videotape
sex, lies, and videotape

Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her h...

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Fat Man and Little Boy
Fat Man and Little Boy

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man d...

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Philadelphia
Philadelphia

Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their un...

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Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules

Three short stories about women & men relationship....

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Buying a Landslide
Buying a Landslide

Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face h...

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Plymouth
Plymouth

The residents of a town displaced by an industrial accident agree to take over a failing mining base...

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Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

When Jill Godmilow’s movie Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Fest...

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Made in Hollywood
Made in Hollywood

A parable of the Hollywood image-making industry told through a pastiche of narrative cliches....

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Fresh Kill
Fresh Kill

Shareen and Claire, a lesbian couple living on Staten Island, find themselves ensnared in a vast con...

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Volcano Saga
Volcano Saga

This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxde...

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Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)

Recorded during the initial run of the Obie Award-winning ROY COHN/JACK SMITH, this video documents ...

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Landscape Suicide
Landscape Suicide

Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed...

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The Last Time I Saw Ron
The Last Time I Saw Ron

Made in memory of the actor and my friend, Ron Vawter. Ron passed away shortly after the opening per...

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White Homeland Commando
White Homeland Commando

White Homeland Commando takes the familiar terrain of network action drama and tilts the playing fie...

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The Machine That Killed Bad People
The Machine That Killed Bad People

The Machine That Killed Bad People is about the cultural and political history of the Philippines le...

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Rumstick Road
Rumstick Road

A video reconstruction of the 1977 Wooster Group production Rumstick Road, an experimental theater p...

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Arena Brains
Arena Brains

A short film by painter-turned-filmmaker Robert Longo, "Arena Brains" is a series of interlocking vi...

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Used Innocence
Used Innocence

Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and con...

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Mastergate
Mastergate

A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealin...

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Swoon
Swoon

Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on...

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Brace Up!
Brace Up!

The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and dire...

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Johnny Suede
Johnny Suede

Johnny Suede (Brad Pitt) longs to be a teen-age idol like Ricky Nelson. He has a pair of black suede...

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Strong Medicine
Strong Medicine

Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the peopl...

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Sudden Death
Sudden Death

When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smi...

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Born in Flames
Born in Flames

In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups o...

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King Blank
King Blank

Set in a motel room at NYC's Kennedy Airport, the film treats two days in the life of a deadbeat cou...

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Twister
Twister

An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriar...

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Internal Affairs
Internal Affairs

Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and par...

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The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez

Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of Th...

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King of the Hill
King of the Hill

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the stor...

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Atalanta Strategy
Atalanta Strategy

The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts....

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Postcards
Postcards

A separated couple try to keep in touch through postcards of typically "American" sights: motels, mo...

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Empty Suitcases
Empty Suitcases

Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and m...

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Minus Zero
Minus Zero

A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide....

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