Ray Sharkey

Ray Sharkey

Born: November 14, 1952
Died: June 11, 1993

Movies for Ray Sharkey...

Cop and ½
Title: Cop and ½
Character: Vinnie Fountain
Released: April 2, 1993
Type: Movie
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new partner seriously as they race the clock to bring the bad guys to justice.
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In the Line of Duty: Street War
Title: In the Line of Duty: Street War
Character: Det. Victor Tomasino
Released: October 25, 1992
Type: Movie
In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New York cop. The detectives enlist the help of the dead cop's partner, who is also the brother of the gangster. There's nothing civil about this war that has two brothers squaring off against each other. The strong cast includes Mario Van Peebles, Ray Sharkey and Peter Boyle.
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Zebrahead
Title: Zebrahead
Character: Richard
Released: October 23, 1992
Type: Movie
Interracial love story set in Detroit.
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Round Trip to Heaven
Title: Round Trip to Heaven
Character: Stoneface
Released: September 2, 1992
Type: Movie
Since Larry works at a garage, he gets to use one of the Rolls Royces. There is only one problem, there is a briefcase full of money in the trunk. So when Larry and his cousin Steve decide to go to Palm Springs to look for Ms. Right at a popular beauty pageant, the owner of the briefcase will do the impossible to get it back.
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Chrome Soldiers
Title: Chrome Soldiers
Character: Gabe Ricci
Released: May 6, 1992
Type: Movie
Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother.
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Dead On: Relentless II
Title: Dead On: Relentless II
Character: Kyle Valsone
Released: February 26, 1992
Type: Movie
Detective Sam Dietz is paired with a shady FBI agent to track down another serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles.
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Title: The Man in the Family
Released: June 19, 1991
Type: TV
The Man in the Family is an American sitcom television series that aired from June 19 until July 31, 1991.
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Caged Fear
Title: Caged Fear
Character: Warden Hayes
Released: May 17, 1991
Type: Movie
After a jewelry theft Tommy Lane can hardly free. His girlfriend Kristen has less luck and is arrested. She's sentenced to jail in an ill-reputed female prison in Oklahoma. Tommy doesn't let her down; he manages to get into the prison - on the other side of the bars - to force the ruthless director to let her go.
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The Cops Are Robbers
Title: The Cops Are Robbers
Released: December 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Made-for-TV drama about one of the largest crimes in history—the 1980 robbery of the Boston Depositors Trust by a group of policemen. Capt. Gerry Clemente is the leader of a gang of rotten cops who take their piece of Boston's criminal offerings. The crimes are petty at first, but soon, Clemente sets his sights on a bank that promises a big score. Can the gang pull it off before a case is built against them?
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The Rain Killer
Title: The Rain Killer
Character: Capra
Released: September 14, 1990
Type: Movie
Together, a weary cop and an all business FBI agent, team up to catch the latest homicidal manic: The Rain Killer. Just when they think that all the clues have been washed away, they find the one last clue; the one that's been in plain sight.
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The Take
Title: The Take
Character: Dennis
Released: March 29, 1990
Type: Movie
An ex-Miami cop just back from prison for corruption gets caught up in the Florida drug trade.
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27 Wagons Full of Cotton
Title: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
Character: Silva
Released: January 2, 1990
Type: Movie
In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ablaze. the superintendent of the Syndicate Plantation sends over 27 wagons full of cotton for ginning, and turns aside his suspicions that Jake is the arsonist in exchange for apparent sexual favors from Jake's wife, Flora.
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Title: The Neon Empire
Character: Junior Molov
Released: December 3, 1989
Type: TV
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The Neon Empire
Title: The Neon Empire
Character: Junior Molov
Released: September 27, 1989
Type: Movie
New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.
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Wired
Title: Wired
Character: Angel Velasquez
Released: August 25, 1989
Type: Movie
The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career.
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Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
Title: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
Character: Frank
Released: June 3, 1989
Type: Movie
A wealthy Beverly Hills resident who has just become a widow, Clare Lipkin temporarily takes on her friend Lisabeth as a house guest. As the two women deal with their upper-class woes, Clare's driver, Frank, and Lisabeth's servant, Juan, make a wager to see who can be the first to seduce the other's boss.
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The Revenge of Al Capone
Title: The Revenge of Al Capone
Character: Scarface
Released: February 26, 1989
Type: Movie
After Al Capone is imprisoned, he still continues to run his empire, and plots to assassinate the mayor of Chicago.
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Act of Piracy
Title: Act of Piracy
Character: Jack Wilcox
Released: July 7, 1988
Type: Movie
A large motor yacht becomes the focal point in this action tale when a group of mercenaries decide to capture the vessel. The original owner, who was delivering it to Sydney, Australia, is believed dead but is in fact very much alive, and determined to recover the yacht...
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Title: Jake and the Fatman
Released: September 26, 1987
Type: TV
Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series.
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Title: Wiseguy
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: TV
Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.
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P.I. Private Investigations
Title: P.I. Private Investigations
Character: Ryan
Released: June 5, 1987
Type: Movie
A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.
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No Mercy
Title: No Mercy
Character: Angles Ryan
Released: December 19, 1986
Type: Movie
An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.
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Title: Crime Story
Character: US Atty. Harry Breitel
Released: September 19, 1986
Type: TV
The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.
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Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Title: Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Character: Grand Vizier
Released: July 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Based on the story "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp", directed by Tim Burton and starring Robert Carradine.
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Wise Guys
Title: Wise Guys
Character: Marco
Released: April 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
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92 Grosvenor Street
Title: 92 Grosvenor Street
Released: December 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Professor-turned-spy Col. Calvin Turner and his associate, workaholic Lt. Shelley Flynn, plan a daring rescue behind enemy lines in World War II German-occupied Norway of a brilliant scientist who may or may not be aiding the Germans.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Geoffery Dryden
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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Title: The Ray Bradbury Theater
Released: May 21, 1985
Type: TV
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
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Hellhole
Title: Hellhole
Character: Silk
Released: March 15, 1985
Type: Movie
An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk’s only the beginning of her problems, since the asylum is run by a mad doctor, performing experiments in chemical lobotomies!
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Body Rock
Title: Body Rock
Character: Terrence
Released: September 28, 1984
Type: Movie
A disco owner lures a New York breakdancer away from his rapping and dancing friends.
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Title: Miami Vice
Released: September 16, 1984
Type: TV
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
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Du-beat-e-o
Title: Du-beat-e-o
Character: duBEAT-e-o
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A filmmaker tries to finish editing a movie about all-girl rock band Runaways.
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Title: The Hitchhiker
Character: Eric Coleman
Released: November 1, 1983
Type: TV
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
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Title: Faerie Tale Theatre
Character: Grand Vizier
Released: September 11, 1982
Type: TV
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
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Some Kind of Hero
Title: Some Kind of Hero
Character: Sgt. Vinnie DiAngelo
Released: April 2, 1982
Type: Movie
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
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Regina Roma
Title: Regina Roma
Character: Carry
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
An aging couple search for peace and family harmony when their only son returns home after a long absence with his fiancee.
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The Ordeal of Bill Carney
Title: The Ordeal of Bill Carney
Character: Bill Carney
Released: December 23, 1981
Type: Movie
Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons since his wife left him. Now, when word of his condition reaches her, she wants to take them away, as she feels that he is unable to care for them. And it appears that the courts agree too. So, his lawyer, also a paraplegic, begins the campaign to take his case before the Supreme Court. Will he win?
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Love and Money
Title: Love and Money
Character: Byron Levin
Released: August 28, 1981
Type: Movie
An investment planner, bored with his job and his girlfriend, is given the opportunity to help open a new firm in South America. Once in the new country, he finds himself dealing with dictators and revolutionaries during a time of intense political upheaval, and to complicate his life further, he begins an affair with his new employer's wife.
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The Idolmaker
Title: The Idolmaker
Character: Vincent 'Vinnie' Vacarri
Released: November 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
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Willie and Phil
Title: Willie and Phil
Character: Phil D'Amico
Released: August 15, 1980
Type: Movie
Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of "Jules et Jim," Truffaut's classic film about a decades-long ménage à trois. Soon, the men meet Jeanette, a sexually liberated southern transplant who promptly falls for both of them. Frustrated passions curdle into jealousy as Jeanette entertains love affairs with each in the ensuing years.
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Heart Beat
Title: Heart Beat
Character: Ira
Released: April 25, 1980
Type: Movie
An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.
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Paradise Alley
Title: Paradise Alley
Character: Legs
Released: September 22, 1978
Type: Movie
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.
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Who'll Stop the Rain
Title: Who'll Stop the Rain
Character: Smitty
Released: August 2, 1978
Type: Movie
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
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Stunts
Title: Stunts
Character: Paul Salerno
Released: June 1, 1977
Type: Movie
After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.
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Hot Tomorrows
Title: Hot Tomorrows
Character: Louis
Released: April 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A portrait of a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-size Grim Reaper. One night Michael's closest buddy, Louis, joins him for an adventure in Hollywood on Christmas Eve.
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Title: Barney Miller
Character: David Salas
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: TV
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.
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Title: Barney Miller
Character: Hold-Up Man
Released: January 23, 1975
Type: TV
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.
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Title: The Jeffersons
Released: January 18, 1975
Type: TV
Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.
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Title: Kojak
Character: Gallagher (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: TV
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
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Title: The Streets of San Francisco
Released: September 23, 1972
Type: TV
Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.
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Title: All in the Family
Character: Man At Clinic (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1971
Type: TV
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.