Famous Faces on "Red Heat" (1988)!
by gattonero975 | created - 13 Aug 2013 | updated - 13 Aug 2013 | PublicThese are the stars I recognized on this classic film directed by the great Walter Hill...
1. Jenifer Lewis
Actress | The Princess and the Frog
Jenifer Lewis is one of Hollywood's most familiar faces, with more than 300 appearances in film and television. Dubbed a "national treasure" by TV Guide.com, Jenifer stars on the hit show Black-ish (ABC), where her hilarious portrayal of "Ruby Johnson" earned her a nomination for the 2016 Critics ...
Judge Jenifer Lewis (uncredited)
2. Michael Adams
Stunts | Commando
Michael Adams was born on March 22, 1950 in New Mexico, USA. He was an actor, known for Commando (1985), No Way Out (1987) and In the Line of Fire (1993). He died on April 18, 2010 in Newhall, California, USA.
Railroad Engineer (as Mike Adams)
3. Joey D. Vieira
Actor | The Patriot
Joey D. Vieira has just celebrated 65 years in show business. As a child, he co-starred in the first version of Lassie (1954) to come to television, winning, in the years 1954 to 1958, two Emmy Awards for "Best Family Television show". Those four years of the long-running series, with Tommy Rettig ...
Man at Phone Booth
4. Luis Contreras
Actor | Pee-wee's Big Adventure
The son of actor Roberto Contreras, character actor Luis Contreras was born on September 18, 1950. Lean and wiry, often sporting a mass of curly hair and drooping mustache, with his piercing dark eyes and angular face Contreras was frequently cast as bums, bikers, criminals, or gang members. ...
Lupo
The drug dealer wearing a white suit called 'Lupo' that Rostavili (Ed O'Ross) meets outside the bus station is the same 'Lupo' that appears in another Walter Hill film: "Extreme Prejudice" (also played there by Luis Contreras). He appears at the end after Nick Nolte has shot Powers Boothe, and tells him "now you get to wear the white suit".
5. Bruno Alexander
Actor | Big Stan
Bruno Alexander is known for Big Stan (2007), Red Heat (1988) and Risky Business (1983). He is married to Reedy Gibbs.
Detective (as Bruno Acalinas)
6. Kurt Fuller
Actor | Midnight in Paris
Born in San Francisco and raised in the agricultural heartland of California's San Joaquin Valley, Fuller became passionate about acting while attending UC Berkley, where he received a degree in English literature. After graduating, he made the move to Los Angeles with everything he owned stuffed ...
Detective
7. Allan Graf
Stunts | The Dark Knight Rises
Graf is one of Hollywood's premier second unit directors and stunt coordinators whose 35-year career behind the cameras includes the staging of stunts in over five dozen films while directing second unit action on three dozen features, including such recent films as Todd Phillips' comedy, "Due Date...
Joliet Prison Guard
Also Stunts
8. Jason Ronard
Actor | Lethal Weapon
Jason Ronard is known for Lethal Weapon (1987), Red Heat (1988) and Escape from Alcatraz (1979).
Nelligan
9. Sven-Ole Thorsen
Actor | Gladiator
Born in Denmark, Sven-Ole Thorsen has a remarkable sporting background as a champion bodybuilder, champion power-lifter, and karate black belt that made him an obvious choice for movies roles as "muscle for hire." The hulking almost 6' 4" actor first came to attention as one of Thulsa Doom's ...
Nikolai
10. Tiger Chung Lee
Actor | Red Heat
Tiger Chung Lee was born on February 7, 1948 in Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor, known for Red Heat (1988), The Golden Child (1986) and WWF Championship Wrestling (1972). He was previously married to Shou Li.
Mongol Hippie (as Masanori Toguchi)
11. Gábor Koncz
Actor | Red Heat
Gábor Koncz was born on July 8, 1938 in Mezökeresztes, Hungary. He is an actor, known for Red Heat (1988), Metamorphosis (2007) and Germinal (1963).
Vagran Rostavili
12. Roger Callard
Actor | UHF
Born in Chesaning, Michigan, Roger Callard started building his body at the age of five. He attended Michigan State University and then participated in bodybuilding championships. He won the 1977 title of Mr. America of the International Federation of Bodybuilders middleweight. At this time he was ...
Pytor Tatomovich
13. Oleg Vidov
Actor | Thirteen Days
Oleg Borisovich Vidov was born in the suburbs of Moscow on 11 June 1943 to Varvara Vidova, a teacher, and Boris Nikolaievich Garnevich, an economist. As a child he lived with his mother, who worked for the Soviet government in the field of education in Mongolia and East Germany. When his mother was...
Yuri Ogarkov
14. Peter Jason
Actor | 48 Hrs.
Excellent, prolific and versatile character actor Peter Jason was born on July 22, 1944, in Hollywood, CA, and grew up in Balboa. He attended Newport Beach Elementary School, Horace Ensign Junior High and Newport Harbor High School. He originally planned on being a football player, but fell in love...
TV Announcer
15. Brion James
Actor | Blade Runner
Brion James was born February 20, 1945, in Redlands, California, to Ida Mae (Buckelew) and Jimmy James. The family soon moved to Beaumont, California (between Los Angeles and Palm Springs), where his parents built and operated a movie theater, where stars such as Gene Autry would occasionally stop ...
Streak
16. Mike Hagerty
Actor | Somebody Somewhere
Mike Hagerty was born on May 10, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Somebody Somewhere (2022), Friends (1994) and Overboard (1987). He was married to Mary Kathryn. He died on April 29, 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Pat Nunn (as Michael Hagerty)
17. Pruitt Taylor Vince
Actor | Identity
Pruitt can next be seen starring as a series regular in the Apple TV+ series Lady in the Lake, opposite Natalie Portman. Other television work includes recurring in Netflix's Stranger Things, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., NBC's Heroes Reborn, True Blood, The Walking Dead, The Mentalist, and ...
Night Clerk
18. Gretchen Palmer
Actress | I Got the Hook Up
Gretchen Palmer was born on December 16, 1961 in Chicopee, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for I Got the Hook Up (1998), The Parkers (1999) and The Young and the Restless (1973). She has been married to Blake Adams since December 12, 1998. They have one child.
Hooker
19. Brent Jennings
Actor | Lodge 49
Brent Jennings was born on April 13, 1951 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He is an actor, known for Lodge 49 (2018), Insecure (2016) and All American (2018). He has been married to Juanita Mahone since August 8, 1985. They have three children.
Abdul Elijah
20. J.W. Smith
Actor | The Warriors
J.W. Smith is a producer and actor with more than 40 years of entertainment experience in motion pictures and television. J.W. grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where he began his acting career at The Karamu House Community Theater. In the early 1970s, J.W. moved to New York City where he became a ...
Salim
21. Richard Bright
Actor | The Godfather Part III
Fair complexioned, cold-eyed actor Richard Bright notched up an impressive array of character performances of often shifty, or deadly characters on the wrong side of the law. He first came to attention as a burglar in the engrossing The Panic in Needle Park (1971), and then followed it the ...
Det. Sgt. Gallagher
22. Gina Gershon
Actress | Bound
Since making her uncredited debut as a dancer in Beatlemania (1981), Gina Gershon has established herself as a character actress and one of the leading icons of American camp. For it was fourteen years after her movie debut that Gina made movie history as the predatory bisexual who was the leading ...
Catherine 'Cat' Manzetti
23. Laurence Fishburne
Actor | The Matrix
Critically hailed for his forceful, militant, authoritative figures and one of Hollywood's most talented and versatile performers, Laurence (John) Fishburne III has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a number of NAACP Image honors.
Born in Augusta, Georgia on July 30, 1961, to Hattie ...
Lt. Charlie Stobbs (as Larry Fishburne)
24. Ed O'Ross
Actor | Red Heat
Rough'n'tumble character actor Ed O'Ross was born as Ed Oross on July 4, 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was an altar boy as a kid and graduated from Munhall High in 1964. Following graduation O'Ross attended both Point Park College and Carnegie Tech. He was an amateur Golden Gloves boxing ...
Viktor 'Rosta' Rostavili
25. Peter Boyle
Actor | Everybody Loves Raymond
A bold, blunt instrument of hatred and violence at the onset of his film career, Peter Boyle recoiled from that repugnant, politically incorrect "working class" image to eventually play gruff, gentler bears and even comedy monsters in a career that lasted four decades.
He was born on October 18, ...
Cmdr. Lou Donnelly
26. Jim Belushi
Actor | Red Heat
James Adam Belushi was born June 15, 1954, in Chicago, to Agnes Demetri (Samaras) and Adam Anastos Belushi, a restaurant owner. His father was an Albanian immigrant, from Qytezë, and his mother was also of Albanian descent. The third of four children - his brother was comedian John Belushi - he ...
Det. Sgt. Art Ridzik
27. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day
With an almost unpronounceable surname and a thick Austrian accent, who would have ever believed that a brash, quick talking bodybuilder from a small European village would become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, marry into the prestigious Kennedy family, amass a fortune via shrewd investments and...
Capt. Ivan Danko
28. Walter Hill
Writer | 48 Hrs.
Hill was born in Long Beach, California and educated at Mexico City College and Michigan State University. He worked in oil drilling and construction in the 60s before becoming a 2nd assistant director in 1967. He has written and co-written screenplays, including several uncredited works. He has ...
Director, Producer, Story and Screenplay
29. James Horner
Music_department | Titanic
James Horner began studying piano at the age of five, and trained at the Royal College of Music in London, England, before moving to California in the 1970s. After receiving a bachelor's degree in music at USC, he would go on to earn his master's degree at UCLA and teach music theory there. He ...
Original Music by James Horner
30. Mario Kassar
Producer | First Blood
At 18 years old, Mario Kassar made his first film. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Los Angeles in the mid 1970s to begin his career as filmmakers. Kassar quickly became known as a creative producer in the L.A. motion pictures industry; also noted as one of the inventors of the foreign market and ...
Executive Producer
31. Andrew G. Vajna
Producer | Evita
Andy Vajna was born in Budapest. In 1956 at the age of 12, he fled from Hungary and with the support of Red Cross he made his way alone to Canada. Vajna launched his career in the entertainment industry with his purchase of motion picture theaters in the Far East. He founded Panasia Films Limited ...
Executive Producer (as Andrew Vajna)
32. Bennie E. Dobbins
Stunts | The Running Man
Bennie E. Dobbins was born on November 16, 1932 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The Running Man (1987), First Blood (1982) and Weird Science (1985). He died on February 5, 1988 in Vienna, Austria.
Stunt Coordinator (as Bennie Dobbins)
Film is dedicated to him as he passed away during filming..
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