Ron Dean
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.6167 |
| Birthday | 1938-08-15 |
| Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | Ronald Charles "Ron" Dean, |
2008
The Dark Knight
8.529/35608
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the rema...
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The Dark Knight
1985
The Breakfast Club
7.7/8502
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel...
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The Breakfast Club
1985
Code of Silence
5.888/253
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
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Code of Silence
1989
The Package
6.135/264
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gal...
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The Package
1986
The Color of Money
6.852/1510
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and propo...
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The Color of Money
1987
Light of Day
5.569/58
Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems.
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Light of Day
1988
Above the Law
6.129/788
Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his jo...
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Above the Law
2006
Voices from the Graves
0/0
A police detective is investigated when he claims to see ghosts.
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Voices from the Graves
1986
Nothing in Common
5.867/135
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.
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Nothing in Common
1989
Dream Breakers
9/1
A movie about a Chicago family -- a building contractor and his two sons who have opposing ideologies. One brother works for a power-hungry builder wi...
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Dream Breakers
2002
Lana's Rain
7.333/3
This powerful, hard-edged crime drama explores the dark side of the American immigrant experience and dares to ask, "How far would you go to survive?"...
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Lana's Rain
1998
Chicago Cab
5.789/19
A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad parts of the city and emotionally connects to many of...
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Chicago Cab
1992
Cold Justice
9/1
When a washed-up boxer invites a British priest to minister in his South Chicago neighborhood, he never suspects that the priest is not who he says he...
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Cold Justice
1984
Teachers
5.679/78
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still canno...
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Teachers
1996
Chain Reaction
5.805/1196
At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of...
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Chain Reaction
1988
Cocktail
6.113/1614
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine ar...
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Cocktail
1993
The Fugitive
7.5/4759
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear...
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The Fugitive
2011
Sam Steele and the Crystal Chalice
1/1
When Sam Steele Junior gets a term paper assignment on a visit by the Soviet Premier to the Midwest in the late 1950s he's less than enthused. But whe...
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Sam Steele and the Crystal Chalice
1984
The Naked Face
5.419/37
Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. Afte...
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The Naked Face
1983
Risky Business
6.587/1449
Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home...
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Risky Business
1985
Pink Nights
6.167/6
Danny is shy and always astonished how his friend Jeff can just walk up to a total stranger and say "Hi!". Even more astonishing that Danny meets thre...
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Pink Nights
1981
Continental Divide
6.092/125
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
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Continental Divide
1983
Heart of Steel
6.8/5
A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family and friends together while alcohol consumes him i...
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Heart of Steel
1993
Rudy
7.34/748
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of p...
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Rudy
1984
The Toughest Man in the World
5.8/5
Mr. T's first starring made-for-TV movie role has him playing a tough and scowling, but softhearted, nightclub bouncer who finds himself involved with...
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The Toughest Man in the World
1997
Night of the Lawyers
10/2
They are armed. They are dangerous. They are lawyers. A hard working emergency room doctor is being harassed by a firm on nasty lawyers. An encounter...
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Night of the Lawyers
1985
Vegetable House
10/1
Vegetable House is no garden variety comedy. When actor/writers Joe Doyle, Ron Dean (Code of Silence), and Aaron Freeman (America's Political Satirist...
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Vegetable House
1994
The Client
6.686/1365
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a...
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The Client
2013
One Small Hitch
6.621/174
On a flight home to Chicago for a family wedding, childhood friends Josh and Molly innocently agree to fake a wedding engagement to make Josh's dying...
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One Small Hitch
1976
The Last Affair
7/1
The wife of a sterile man steps outside the marriage with a gigolo in order to conceive.
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The Last Affair
1990
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
7/1
After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rookie and three ex-cops, come to his rescue.
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Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
1994
House of Angels: The Second Summer
4.462/39
Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their new stay. Axel has told Fanny he is her father, but...
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House of Angels: The Second Summer
2004
Wild Things 2
5.2/214
Two Florida high school vixens hatch a murderous plan to win an inheritance, but they hadn't bargained for an escalating whirlpool of blackmail and se...
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Wild Things 2
2004
The Wild Card
4.333/6
A Los Angeles trophy wife and her beautiful step daughter are kidnapped in Las Vegas by four gangsters with murky motives.
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The Wild Card
1986
Crime Story: Pilot
7.429/7
One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.
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Crime Story: Pilot
1987
Big Shots
6.567/15
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a you...
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Big Shots
1990
Fatal Encounter
9/1
A woman finds out that her biological father, a professional race car driver, was murdered twenty years ago and the murderer or murderers are still on...
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