on film

My first film role was in a 1987 low budget horror-comedy shot in NY called She's Back, with Carrie Fisher starring. We shot it in the middle of winter at 4am in the Brooklyn Navy Yards. It was a blast. That role of the pimp Meathook was one of the first of many bad guys that I've played.

While I was still living in NY I appeared in Jacknife starring Robert DeNiro and Ed Harris, Fletch Lives starring Chevy Chase, and the picture that would bring me to LA: Lockup. In that movie starring Sylvester Stallone and Donald Sutherland, I was an evil prison guard. I treated the (of course) innocent Stallone like garbage. As we were shooting, the director: John Flynn and Sylvester Stallone decided I had to get what was coming to me. So in a great fight scene that we shot for several days, I finally got what I deserved.

Once I settled in Los Angeles, the roles came in such movies as: Doc Hollywood starring Michael J. Fox , The Rookie directed by and starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen. I was also in Amos and Andrew starring Nicholas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson, Speed, Species, The American President, Life, Ghosts of Mississippi, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Before and After, and Crazy in Alabama among others.

My recent movies include: Beautiful starring Minnie Driver and directed by Sally Field, and the award-winning The Visit starring Hill Harper and Billy Dee Williams, and More Dogs Than Bones starring Whoopi Goldberg and Mercedes Ruehl. I was in my 4th, 5th and 6th Rob Reiner movies: Alex and Emma starring Luke Wilson and Kate Hudson, Rumor Has It, starring Kevin Costner and Jennifer Anniston, and The Bucket List, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.