Ralph Macchio Filmography

Born:: November 4, 1962 in Huntington, Long Island, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: With his short slender build, large brown eyes, and abundant hair, actor Ralph Macchio has often appeared to be the perennial adolescent -- a fact that has sometimes hindered his career. The actor is best known for his work in the phenomenally popular Karate Kid (1984), in which the then...Read More

Sort By:
Title
Release Date

Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Undead

Actors: Jake Hoffman, John Ventimiglia, Ralph Macchio, Jeremy Sisto, Devon Aoki

Synopsis: Jake Hoffman, Jeremy Sisto, Devon Aoki, and Ralph Macchio star in first time screenwriter/director Jordan Galland's horror comedy about a Shakespearian actor who agrees to direct a most unusual stage production of Hamlet. An out of work actor (Hoffman) in search of his big break believes that he's Read More

2008
Artie Lange's Beer League

Actors: Artie Lange, Ralph Macchio, Anthony de Sando, Cara Buono, Jimmy Palumbo

Synopsis: An unemployed, alcoholic thirtysomething who still lives with his mother and can't seem to muster the motivation to turn his life around finds that all's fair in love and softball when his team is threatened with ejection from the league in a raunchy sports comedy starring Howard Stern Show Read More

9/15/06
Entourage: Aquamansion

2005
A Good Night to Die

Actors: Michael Rapaport, Gary Stretch, Robin Givens, Ally Sheedy, Ralph Macchio

Synopsis: This crime comedy from director Craig Singer is the filmmaker's third independent feature and his second outing with screenwriter Robert Dean Klein and star Gary Stretch, who had contributed to 2001's Dead Dogs Lie, Singer's sophomore effort. Stretch plays Ronnie, a hitman who, three years prior Read More

2003
Love Thy Brother

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gideon Jacobs, Bobby Borriello, Todd Weeks, Lorna Ventura

2002
Forever Together

Actors: Bryan Burke, Ralph Macchio, Michelle Trachtenberg

Synopsis: A boy tries to solve the mysteries of growing up with the help of a ghostly friend in this comedy-drama. Thirteen-year-old Danny (Bryan Burke) is having more than his share of problems adjusting to life after the death of his father, and it doesn't help that he's falling in love with Julie Read More

1999
The Secret of NIMH II: Timmy to the Rescue

Actors: Harvey Korman, Peter MacNicol, Ralph Macchio, William H. Macy, Arthur Malet, Andrea Martin, Meshach Taylor, Dom DeLuise, Eric Idle, Andrew Ducote

Synopsis: In this direct-to-video sequel to Don Bluth's 1982 animated adventure The Secret of NIMH, Timmy (voice of Ralph Macchio) is the son of two courageous mice who helped save the day for the animals of Thorn Valley. While the wise Nicodemus has predicted that Timmy will some day be a great hero -- and Read More

1998
Naked in New York

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Eric Stoltz, Mary-Louise Parker, Ralph Macchio, Jill Clayburgh, Tony Curtis, Kathleen Turner, Timothy Dalton, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: The sponsorship of noted filmmaker Martin Scorsese helped the novice filmmakers making this film get it produced and receive mainstream distribution. In addition, it features a vast number of appearances by well-known performers, who took an interest in the project, taking union minimum pay. In Read More

1993
My Cousin Vinny

Actors: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield, Fred Gwynne

Synopsis: When sweet Northern college kid Bill (Ralph Macchio) and his buddy Stan (Mitchell Whitfield) are picked up and thrown into the slammer in a hick Southern town, at first it looks like no big deal. Then they are informed that they are accused of murder. Penniless and without a single friend in the Read More

3/13/92
The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story

Actors: Ralph Macchio

1992
Too Much Sun

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Eric Idle, Andrea Martin, Jim Haynie, Laura Ernst

Synopsis: In this riotous British satire, a conniving Catholic priest convinces a dying tycoon into writing the church into his will by having him add the following proviso: the tycoon's children will only inherit the fortune if one of them can produce an heir within one year after his death. If they fail Read More

1/25/91
The Karate Kid Part III

Actors: Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Robyn Lively, Thomas Ian Griffith, Martin Kove

Synopsis: John G. Avildsen rehashes his shopworn formula for another go-round in The Karate Kid Part III. Going against the wishes of his mentor Mr. Miyagi (Noriyuki "Pat" Morita), Daniel (Ralph Macchio) will defend his karate title in an All-Valley Championship match arranged by his nemesis Kreese (Martin Kove Read More

6/30/89
Distant Thunder

Actors: John Lithgow, Ralph Macchio, Kerrie Keane, Reb Brown, Janet Margolin

Synopsis: Discharged from Vietnam, John Lithgow and his army buddies have trouble fitting into a hostile home-front society. Rather than endure dirty looks and taunts of "baby killer," Lithgow and his friends wander aimlessly all through the Pacific Northwest. Several years pass, during which time Lithgow's Read More

11/11/88
Dangerous Company

Actors: Ray Johnson

Synopsis: Adapted from a true story and made for the video stores, Dangerous Company concerns convicted criminal Ray Johnson, who spent almost 30 years in prison before rehabilitating himself. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
The Karate Kid Part II

Actors: Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Nobu McCarthy, Danny Kamekona, Yuji Okumoto

Synopsis: This sequel to the 1984 surprise hit The Karate Kid reunites Ralph Macchio as high-schooler Danny and Noriyuki "Pat" Morita as Danny's martial-arts mentor Miyagi. Picking up where the first film left off, The Karate Kid Part II finds Danny and Miyagi making an emergency trip to Okinawa, where Read More

6/20/86
Crossroads

Actors: Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz, Joe Morton, Robert Judd

Synopsis: A passion for blues music is evident in this drama based on a contest-winning script by former blues musician John Fusco -- and featuring one of the decade's best-received motion picture soundtracks, written and performed by Ry Cooder. Eugene Martone Ralph Macchio is a classically trained Read More

3/14/86
The Karate Kid

Actors: Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Martin Kove, Randee Heller, William Zabka

Synopsis: Newly arrived in California from New Jersey, teenager Daniel (Ralph Macchio) almost immediately runs afoul of karate-trained high school bullies. He is rescued by Japanese janitor Miyagi (Noriyuki "Pat" Morita), who agrees to teach Daniel how to harness karate for good instead of brutality. The Read More

6/22/84
The Three Wishes of Billy Grier

Synopsis: Ralph Maccio plays teenaged Billy Grier, the victim of a rare degenerative disease that speeds up the ageing process. With only a few months left on earth-if that-Billy wants to realize three goals. He wants to be reunited with his long-gone father; he wants to play sax in a jazz band; and he Read More

1984
Teachers

Actors: Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch, Ralph Macchio, Lee Grant

Synopsis: Arthur Hiller directed this satiric look at contemporary urban high schools, examining disillusioned teachers who try to regain their idealism. Nick Nolte stars as Alex, a teacher at John Fitzgerald Kennedy High School, who was once an idealistic teacher but whose main concern now is sobering up Read More

1984
The Outsiders

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe

Synopsis: Teen rivalry in a small Southern town sets the stage for this dramatic interpretation of the novel by S.E. Hinton. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, The Outsiders tells the story of the ongoing conflict between the Greasers and the Socs in rural Oklahoma. C. Thomas Howell stars as Ponyboy, the Read More

1983
Eight Is Enough: Season 05

Actors: Dick Van Patten, Betty Buckley, Adam Rich, Willie Aames, Connie Nelson

Synopsis: Getting a late start due to the 1980 Hollywood actors' strike, the fifth and final season of Eight is Enough makes up for lost time with a frantic 90-minute opening episode, in which Susan Bradford Stockwell (Susan Richardson), one of the eight children of journalist Tom Bradford (Dick Van Read More

1980
Up the Academy

Actors: Wendell Brown, Tom Citera, J. Hutchinson, Ralph Macchio

Synopsis: A teen comedy that does not quite rise to the level of that age group, this uninspired story features Ron Liebman as the Major, a sadistic instructor at a military school. Ralph Macchio (before his 1984 hit, Karate Kid) and other teens of every stripe suffer through the indignities heaped on them Read More

1980