Ron Dean
Birthday: 1938-08-15
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography: Ron Dean (August 15, 1938 — October 5, 2025) was an American film and television actor. He appeared in films including Rudy, Risky Business, The Breakfast Club, Cocktail, The Babe, The Fugitive, The Client, and The Dark Knight. He was known for often playing detectives and other law-enforcement characters, most notably Det. Marion Zeke Crumb in the television show Early Edition.
Movies
The Dark Knight
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney ...
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The Breakfast Club
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hun...
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Code of Silence
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants...
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The Package
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Bo...
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The Color of Money
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He...
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Light of Day
Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems....
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Above the Law
Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthod...
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Voices from the Graves
A police detective is investigated when he claims to see ghosts....
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Nothing in Common
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents e...
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Dream Breakers
A movie about a Chicago family -- a building contractor and his two sons who have opposing ideologie...
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Lana's Rain
This powerful, hard-edged crime drama explores the dark side of the American immigrant experience an...
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Chicago Cab
A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad par...
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Cold Justice
When a washed-up boxer invites a British priest to minister in his South Chicago neighborhood, he ne...
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Teachers
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing t...
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Chain Reaction
At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasali...
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Cocktail
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar r...
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The Fugitive
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the l...
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Sam Steele and the Crystal Chalice
When Sam Steele Junior gets a term paper assignment on a visit by the Soviet Premier to the Midwest ...
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The Naked Face
Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns u...
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Risky Business
Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. How...
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Pink Nights
Danny is shy and always astonished how his friend Jeff can just walk up to a total stranger and say ...
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Continental Divide
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher....
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Heart of Steel
A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family...
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Rudy
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at...
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The Toughest Man in the World
Mr. T's first starring made-for-TV movie role has him playing a tough and scowling, but softhearted,...
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Night of the Lawyers
They are armed. They are dangerous. They are lawyers. A hard working emergency room doctor is being ...
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Vegetable House
Vegetable House is no garden variety comedy. When actor/writers Joe Doyle, Ron Dean (Code of Silence...
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The Client
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, who...
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One Small Hitch
On a flight home to Chicago for a family wedding, childhood friends Josh and Molly innocently agree ...
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The Last Affair
The wife of a sterile man steps outside the marriage with a gigolo in order to conceive....
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Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rooki...
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House of Angels: The Second Summer
Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their ne...
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Wild Things 2
Two Florida high school vixens hatch a murderous plan to win an inheritance, but they hadn't bargain...
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The Wild Card
A Los Angeles trophy wife and her beautiful step daughter are kidnapped in Las Vegas by four gangste...
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Crime Story: Pilot
One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show....
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Big Shots
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South...
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Fatal Encounter
A woman finds out that her biological father, a professional race car driver, was murdered twenty ye...
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