Richard Riehle Filmography

Born:: Chicago, IL
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A Windy City native, distinguished character actor Richard Riehle earned his undergraduate degree from Notre Dame and his master's from the University of Minnesota, then took his first cinematic bow with a bit part in 1975's Western Rooster Cogburn -- opposite John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn....Read More

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Red

Actors: Brian Cox, Noel Fisher, Tom Sizemore, Kyle Gallner, Shiloh Fernandez

Synopsis: After his 14-year-old dog, Red, is senselessly murdered by three thrill-seeking teenagers, an aging recluse sets out seeking justice for his four-legged companion and finds himself gradually pushed to take extreme measures. Brian Cox and Tom Sizemore star in this adaptation of the Jack Ketchum Read More

8/8/08
A Plumm Summer

Actors: William Baldwin, Lisa Guerrero, Owen Pearce, Chris Kelly, Henry Winkler

Synopsis: A highly unlikely crime helps bring together two brothers in this nostalgic comedy drama. Rocky Plumm (Owen Pearce) is a five-year-old boy growing up in a small Montana town in the mid-'60s. In Rocky's eyes, there's no star bigger or brighter than local kid's show host Happy Herb (Henry Winkler) Read More

4/25/08
Green Flash

Actors: David Charvet, Torrey DeVitto, Kristin Cavallari, Brody Hutzler, Jaleel White

Synopsis: Baseball lovers have Bull Durham, football lovers have Friday Night Lights, and now volleyball enthusiasts get a chance to see their favorite sport shine on the silver screen with this tale of a fallen sports star who gets his second shot at greatness. Cameron Day (David Charvet) was a college Read More

1/1/08
Bait Shop

Actors: Bill Engvall, Billy Ray Cyrus, Harve Presnell, Richard Riehle, Billy Joe Shaver

Synopsis: Bill Engvall and Billy Ray Cyrus star in this down-home comedy concerning a small-town bait-shop owner who enters into a local Bass Tournament in hopes of raising the money needed to keep his struggling store in business. Bill's Bait Shop is going under fast, and in order to remain afloat Read More

2008
National Lampoon Presents The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell

Actors: Richard Riehle, Kevin Wheatley, Bill English, Chandler Adrian Parker, Jonathan L. Davidson

Synopsis: A handful of America's least likely icons set out to reclaim the nation in the wake of a nuclear apocalypse in this ambitious independent satire from filmmakers Kevin Wheatley and Jonny Gillette. In the year 2075, America's major cities are wiped out by nuclear warfare, and the nation's survivors Read More

10/19/07
Hatchet

Actors: Joel David Moore, Tamara Feldman, Deon Richmond, Mercedes McNab, Joleigh Fioreavanti

Synopsis: A handful of college students looking for a good time are thrown into a world of danger in this homage to the slasher film cycle of the 1970s and '80s. Ben (Joel David Moore) has just been given his walking papers by his girlfriend and is deeply depressed. Needing a pick-me-up, Ben and his friend Read More

9/7/07
Midnight Clear

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, K Callan, Kirk B.R. Woller, Mary Thornton, Mitchell Jarvis

Synopsis: A handful of desperate characters come together unexpectedly one winter evening in this comedy-drama. Lefty (Stephen Baldwin) is a luckless sad sack whose life has been in a tailspin since his wife Heather (Faline England) left him two years ago. Lefty has been struggling to win back the right to Read More

2007
Smiley Face

Actors: Anna Faris, Roscoe Lee Browne, Danny Masterson, Ben Falcone, Adam Brody

Synopsis: One woman's day goes all to pot in this resinous comedy from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. Jane (Anna Faris) is a college dropout and aspiring actress who suffers from a certain lack of ambition, doubtless reinforced by her fondness for marijuana. One morning, Jane wakes with a busy day ahead Read More

2007
Nanny Insanity

Actors: Larry Dorf, Cynthia Preston, Alla Korot, Mindy Sterling, Howard Hesseman

Synopsis: Two happily married expectant parents get more than they bargained for after hiring a free-spirited Ukrainian housekeeper to help clean up their suburban palace in Killer Wave director Kevin Connor's playful domestic comedy. Marsha and David McMillan (Cynthia Preston and Larry Dorf) are about to Read More

2007
The Only Girl

Actors: Brian Sounalath, Carlee Avers, Matthew Cardarople, Michael J. Conti, Richard Riehle

2007
Hindsight

Actors: Leonor Varela, Jeffrey Donovan, Waylon Payne, Miranda Bailey, Richard Riehle

Synopsis: A pregnant woman who lacks the means to properly raise her child convinces her boyfriend to sell the baby on the black market, only to discover that the couple they have selected have a horrifying agenda of their own in this thriller from debut director Paul Holahan. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Read More

2007
Resurrection Mary

Actors: Kevin Schmidt, Sally Kirkland, Pamela Jean, Richard Riehle, Charlie Schlatter

Synopsis: A moonlit encounter with an urban legend sends the life of an unassuming high school kid spinning out of control. Seventeen year old Jeff Pryce (Kevin G. Schmidt) was driving down a winding country road when he nearly ran over a mysterious beauty walking alone by Resurrection Cemetery. After Read More

2007
The Man From Earth

Actors: David Lee Smith, Richard Riehle, John Billingsley, William Katt, Tony Todd

Synopsis: In the tradition of such psychologically-charged sci-fi outings as The Next One (1982) and K-PAX (2001) comes the cerebral science fiction opus The Man From Earth (2007). The story concerns Professor John Oldman, a scientist who summons a group of associates to a cabin one freezing night, and Read More

2007
Death & Texas

Actors: Charles Durning, Steve Harris, Corbin Bernsen, Jello Biafra, Pamela Tice Chapman

Synopsis: Death & Texas mixes humor and drama in order to tell the story of a football player who ends up on death row. However, when his team begins to lose without him there is a movement to get him released. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

11/3/06
The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

Actors: Daniel Letterle, Meredith Baxter, David Monahan, Diego Serrano, Dean Shelton

Synopsis: After years of relying on the "it's not you, it's me" excuse, a gay man in his late twenties begins to realize that he might really be the one to blame for his failed relationships in this broad comedy. Based on a serialized comic strip of the same name, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Read More

6/16/06
National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2

Synopsis: The rowdy students of Billingsley University arrive in Mexico on a study-abroad trip in this sequel to the collegiate comedy that left viewers in stitches. The Surveyor has left stateside port and set sail for Mexico. Now, as the spring heat flares and the azure waters beacon the ship ashore, the Read More

2006
Dismal

Actors: William Gregory Lee, Scott Miles, Richard Riehle, Joy Pfister, Eleanor Drew

Synopsis: What was supposed to be a relaxing long weekend of trout fishing in the wilderness quickly descends into a bloody battle for survival when a pair of over-stressed urbanites cross a reclusive survivalist looking to elude the law in Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp. All Bill Matherson (William Gregory Lee Read More

2006
The Frank Anderson

Actors: Richard Riehle

2006
Dark Mind

Actors: Christopher Kennedy Masterson, Lyndsy Fonseca, Tom Everett, David DeLuise

Synopsis: A young inventor struggling to protect his latest creation becomes convinced that he is the subject of a secret Russian spy ring in this thriller starring Malcolm in the Middle's Christopher Kennedy Masterson. Paul Lionette is a gifted young scientist who was betrayed by the people he trusted Read More

2006
Intellectual Property

Actors: Christopher Kennedy Masterson, Lyndsy Fonseca, David DeLuise, Richard Riehle, Clayton Landey

Synopsis: An eccentric genius is forced to confront the consequences of his own madness in this independent drama. Paul Hadley (Christopher Masterson) is a brilliant but emotionally fragile inventor who has developed a deep and not unjustifiable paranoia after a number of his most advanced ideas have Read More

2006
Down the P.C.H.

Actors: Vincent Grashaw

2006
Mysterious Skin

Actors: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jeff Licon, Bill Sage

Synopsis: Two young men are haunted by similar events from their past, though the effects manifest themselves in very different ways, in this powerful drama from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. In the summer of 1981, Brian (George Webster) and Neil (Chase Ellison) are both eight years old and playing on Read More

5/6/05
Palindromes

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly-Guirgis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Emani Sledge, Valerie Shusterov

Synopsis: Palindromes opens with the dedication, "In loving memory of Dawn Wiener," a reference to the lead character in writer/director Todd Solondz' early feature, Welcome to the Dollhouse. Aviva has just attended Dawn's funeral. Dismayed by her older cousin's untimely death, Aviva asks her mother (Ellen Barkin Read More

4/13/05
Home on the Range

Actors: Roseanne, Judi Dench, Jennifer Tilly, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Randy Quaid

Synopsis: Disney presents the animated musical Western Home on the Range, featuring an original musical score by Alan Menken. The Little Piece of Heaven family farm is about to go under and outlaw cattle rustler Alameda Slim (voice of Randy Quaid) sets his sights on it. Three dairy cows -- tough Maggie Read More

4/2/04
The 12 Dogs of Christmas

Actors: Jordan-Claire Green, Adam Hicks, Susan Wood, Eric Lutes, John Billingsley, Bonita Friedericy

Synopsis: The 12 Dogs of Christmas concerns a twelve-year-old girl named Emma who lives in a town that has outlawed owning dogs. She attempts to win over the hearts and minds of the town's mayor by putting together a memorable Christmas pageant using many of her canine friends. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Read More

2004
The Hebrew Hammer

Actors: Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Andy Dick, Mario Van Peebles, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: He's hip, he's fly, and he never mixes meat with dairy -- he's the world's first Jewish private eye, and he's out to save the world in this satiric comedy. Mordechai Jefferson Carver (Adam Goldberg) is a super-cool Jewish detective who takes no mess and is always ready to do the right thing for Read More

12/19/03
NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323

Synopsis: Flight 323 has crashed in the Colorado Rockies, killing everyone on board. Was the disaster the result of carelessness, incompetence, malfunctioning equipment--or terrorism? To answer these question, a team of experts from the National Transportation Safety Board, headed by Al Cummings (Mandy Read More

2003
Married to the Kellys [TV Series]

Actors: Breckin Meyer, Kiele Sanchez, Nancy Lenehan, Emily Rutherfurd, Josh Braaten

Synopsis: The ABC sitcom Married to the Kellys was reportedly based on the life experiences of its producer, Tom Hertz. An only child who had lived a blissful solitary existence most of his life, Manhattanite Tom Wagner (Breckin Meyer) was swept off his feet by Susan Kelly (Kiele Sanchez), an attractive Read More

2003
Time Changer

Actors: D David Morin, Gavin MacLeod, Hal Linden, Jennifer O'Neill, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: A man is sent into the future to see the possible results of his actions in this mixture of sci-fi adventure and Christian drama. In 1890, Russell Carlisle (D. David Morin) is a philosopher and college professor who has completed a manuscript he calls "The Changing Times." The university where Read More

10/25/02
ER: A Hopeless Wound

Synopsis: Don Cheadle makes his first series appearance as Paul Nathan, an overaged med student who chose to enter school only after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. During his first shift, Nathan plunges in to help the other staffers treat the victims of a Halloween party fire -- whereupon his Read More

2002
Another Pretty Face

Synopsis: The media's tendency to favor youth and cosmetic perfection over experience and intelligence is the gist of this mildly trenchant TV movie. Mel Harris stars as Diana, a top TV news anchor who is summarily dumped from her lofty perch in favor of a younger and prettier journalist named Amber (Julianne Morris Read More

2002
The Fluffer

Actors: Scott Gurney, Taylor Negron, Richard Riehle

Synopsis: The gay adult film industry is the backdrop for this drama focusing on Sean (Michael Cunio), a young gay man who is looking for a job in the movie business. While trying to rent a video of Citizen Kane, Sean accidentally brings home a video from Men of Janus Productions, an outfit that churns out Read More

11/16/01
Bandits

Actors: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Troy Garity, Brian F. O'Byrne

Synopsis: Director Barry Levinson follows up the low-budget An Everlasting Piece (2000) with another comedy, this one of the homegrown variety from former Twin Peaks (1990) TV series writer Harley Peyton. Bruce Willis stars as suave bank robber Joe, who has escaped from prison with his hypochondriac buddy Read More

10/12/01
Say It Isn't So

Actors: Chris Klein, Heather Graham, Orlando Jones, Sally Field, Richard Jenkins

Synopsis: Bobby Farrelly and brother Peter Farrelly continue exploring outrageous premises with this comedy directed by their first assistant director J.B. Rogers. In this wacky spin on the boy-meets-girl tale, Gilly Noble (Chris Klein) enters a sexually charged, passionate love affair with girl of his Read More

3/23/01
Columbo: Murder with Too Many Notes

Synopsis: Peter Falk returns to the role of Lt. Columbo -- he of the grimy trenchcoat, dumb-like-a-fox interrogations, and the inevitable "Just one more question" -- in this two-hour TV-movie special. British comic actor Billy Connolly guest stars as famed movie composer/conductor Findlay Crawford, who Read More

2001
The Laramie Project

Actors: Christina Ricci, Peter Fonda, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Buscemi, Dylan Baker, Amy Madigan, Joshua Jackson, Jeremy Davies, Clea Duvall

Synopsis: Laramie, WY, is a small town which became infamous overnight in the fall of 1998, when Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was found tied to a fence after being brutally beaten and left to die, setting off a nationwide debate about hate crimes and homophobia. A month after the crime, Moises Read More

2001
Grounded for Life: Season 02

Actors: Donal Logue, Megyn Price, Kevin Corrigan, Richard Riehle, Lynsey Bartilson, Jake Burbage, Griffin Frazen

2001
The Gristle

Actors: Michael Dorn, Barry Corbin, Orson Bean, Richard Riehle, Carsten Norgaard

Synopsis: David Portlock's darkly comic film about race, The Gristle, concerns a pair of struggling medical technicians who get a moonlighting gig to deliver kidneys to a Senator. Complications ensue when a drug deal set to go down in the same place and at the same time leads to the wrong deliveries being Read More

2001
Grounded for Life: Season 01

Actors: Donal Logue, Megyn Price, Kevin Corrigan, Richard Riehle, Lynsey Bartilson, Jake Burbage, Griffin Frazen

2001
Star Trek: Voyager: Fair Haven

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Synopsis: Fair Haven is the name of a quaint 18th century Irish village, created in the ship's Holoprogram by crewmen Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) and Kim (Garrett Wang). With the threatened approach of a dangerous neutrino wave weighing heavily upon her, Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) permits herself and her crew Read More

2000
Star Trek: Voyager: Spirit Folk

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Synopsis: In this follow-up to the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Fair Haven," a computer glitch causes the citizens of Fair Haven, an 18th century Irish village created in the Holoprogram, to cross over into the "real" Voyager. Observing the crew playing holographic games, the "fabricated" villagers assume Read More

2000
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

Actors: Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin, Arija Bareikis, Oded Fehr

Synopsis: Yet another Saturday Night Live alumnus makes his bid for big-screen success as Rob Schneider, best remembered as the "Making copies!" guy, tackles his first leading role in this broad comedy. Deuce (Rob Schneider) earns a meager living as a professional fish tank cleaner until he's asked to Read More

12/10/99
Office Space

Actors: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu

Synopsis: Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a computer programmer working for Initech in Houston. Every day, he and his friends Samir (Ajay Naidu) and Michael Bolton (David Herman as not THAT Michael Bolton), suffer endless indignities and humiliations in their soulless workspace from their soulless boss Read More

2/19/99
Au Pair

Synopsis: After months of unemployment, young MBA Jenny Morgan (Heidi Noelle Lenhart) applies for what she thinks is an administrative position with the firm owned by handsome business executive Oliver Caldwell (Gregory Harrison). Unforutnately, someone's signals have gotten crossed, and Jenny finds she has Read More

1999
Hostage Hotel

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Keith Carradine, Michael Blue, David Rasche

Synopsis: Produced for the TNT cable network, this is the last in a short series of TV movies starring Burt Reynolds as retired police detective Logan McQueen. Something of a bargain-basement Die Hard, the plot is set in motion when a disturbed, vengeance-seeking Vietnam veteran named Arlin Flynn (Keith Carradine Read More

1999
Desperate Measures

Actors: Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Brian Cox, Marcia Gay Harden, Erik King, Joseph Cross

Synopsis: Although he enjoyed great critical success with crime dramas and slice-of-life pictures, director Barbet Schroeder continued dabbling in the thriller genre with this action-oriented film. Andy Garcia stars as Frank Conner, a widowed San Francisco police officer whose young son Matt (Joseph Cross) Read More

1998
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Becoming, Part 1

Synopsis: Acathla, a demon turned to stone by an ancient knight, is dug up during the construction of a new housing project. Angel (David Boreanaz) steals Acathla in hopes of using the demon for the stultifyingly original purpose of opening a portal to Hell. Meanwhile, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Read More

1998
Columbo: Ashes to Ashes

Actors: Peter Falk, Patrick McGoohan, Sally Kellerman, Rue McClanahan, Richard Riehle

Synopsis: In this feature-length episode of the enduring and endearing television detective drama, the world's most rumpled police investigator, Lt. Columbo investigates the mysterious disappearance of a controversial Hollywood gossip columnist. Columbo's prime suspect is a secretive mortician who Read More

1998
Route 9

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Peter Coyote, Amy Locane, Miguel Sandoval, Wade Williams, Richard Riehle

Synopsis: Two lawmen find the call of corruption too loud to ignore in the drama Route 9. Booth Parker (Kyle MacLachlan) and Earl Whitney (Wade Williams) are two deputies in a small town who discover a crime scene along a deserted highway. There appears to have been a shoot-out with no living witnesses, and Read More

1/1/98
The Odd Couple II

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Christine Baranski, Barnard Hughes, Jonathan Silverman

Synopsis: Howard Deutch directed this sequel to the The Odd Couple (1968), originally adapted from the 1965 Broadway comedy by Neil Simon. Thirty years later, Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) and retired sportswriter Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau) meet at LAX and drive a rental car across the desert to attend the Read More

1998
Mercury Rising

Actors: Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens

Synopsis: In this action-suspense thriller, orphaned nine-year-old autistic savant Simon (Miko Hughes) deciphers a government code hidden in a puzzle magazine. Calling for his prize, Simon triggers an alarm at the National Security Agency: NSA chief Nicholas Kudrow (Alec Baldwin), who says the code protects Read More

1998
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Actors: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Craig Bierko, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey

Synopsis: Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic $21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunter S. Thompson classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream, about stoned sportswriter Raoul Duke, Thompson Read More

1998
Ally McBeal: The Kiss

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

1997
Ally McBeal: Pilot

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski

1997
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

Synopsis: Three years after the cancellation of her popular series Murder She Wrote, Angela Lansbury returns for the first of several TV-movie followups to that selfsame series. Once again, Lansbury is cast as Jessica Fletcher, best-selling mystery writer and amateur sleuth. As indicated by the film's Read More

1997
Executive Decision

Actors: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Steven Seagal, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: In this action thriller, a group of Islamic terrorists, led by Nagi Hassan (David Suchet), highjacks a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers aboard, but Lt. Col. Austin Travis (Steven Seagal), a United States intelligence agent, is convinced that this isn't an ordinary case of air piracy. His Read More

1996
Ghosts of Mississippi

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods, William H. Macy, Craig T. Nelson, Bill Cobbs, Susanna Thompson

Synopsis: This is a long-awaited film telling the story of the trials of Medgar Evers' killer. Medger Evers (James Pickens, Jr.) was a black civil-rights activist in Mississippi who was shot to death in 1963. Despite very persuasive evidence that Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) was indeed his killer, the Read More

1996
Soul of the Game

Actors: Delroy Lindo, Mykelti Williamson, Blair Underwood, Edward Herrmann, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: This original HBO production documents, in dramatic form, the rivalry between Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson to see who would be the first African-American to play Major League Baseball. Paige (played by Delroy Lindo) and Gibson (Mykelti Williamson) are more aggressive about Read More

1996
Driven

Actors: Tony Todd, Whip Hubley, Daniel Roebuck

Synopsis: Directed by first-time filmmaker Michael Paradies Shoob, the independent drama Driven tells the story of four L.A. cab drivers working for the Red Star cab company during the week between Christmas and New Year's Day. Darius Pelton (Tony Todd) wants to reunite with his son, who lives with his Read More

1996
Jury Duty

Actors: Shelley Winters, Pauly Shore, Tia Carrere, Stanley Tucci, Brian Doyle-Murray, Abe Vigoda

Synopsis: A goofy slacker wreaks havoc after worming his way onto the jury of a high-profile court case in this broad comedy. The extremely unmotivated Tommy Collins (Pauly Shore) has found himself homeless after being kicked out by his mother, and he needs a place to stay. After hearing how the juries of Read More

1995
Casino

Actors: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci,