Ron Karabatsos

Ron Karabatsos

Born: April 22, 1933
Died: April 17, 2012
in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
Ronald Christ Karabatsos (1933–2012) was an American character actor.

Movies for Ron Karabatsos...

Surviving Christmas
Title: Surviving Christmas
Character: Deli Man
Released: September 21, 2004
Type: Movie
Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, he revisits his old childhood home in the hope of reliving some old holiday memories – but he finds that the house in which he was raised is no longer the home in which he grew up.
bee
Get Shorty
Title: Get Shorty
Character: Momo
Released: October 20, 1995
Type: Movie
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.
bee
Jailbait
Title: Jailbait
Character: Kelso
Released: October 22, 1993
Type: Movie
17 year old Kyle comes to the big city in search of her half-sister Merci. Merci is on the run after being used to set up a murder. The police and the killers both want her.
bee
Title: Rachel Gunn, R.N.
Character: Plumber
Released: June 28, 1992
Type: TV
The lives of head nurse Rachel Gunn and her co-workers at Little Innocence Hospital in Nebraska, where Rachel is often at odds with egotistical surgeon David Dunkel.
bee
Dead in the Water
Title: Dead in the Water
Character: Mike Welch
Released: December 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Charlie Deegan has almost everything he has ever wanted. He has an important law practice, a beautiful secretary as his lover, and the chance to be appointed to the high court. The only thing wrong with this is that his shrewish wife Olivia, whose father made all the wealth and all the power, is living and that greatly upsets Charlie. So when his lover, Laura, suggests that they get rid of Olivia, Charlie thinks, being a lawyer, that he can create a fool-proof plan. In this plan, he must incorporate a woman named Victoria whom he detests, but she can help him get into the court and be part of the plan for Olivia. But dreams of judgeship, money and Laura makes him proceed. However, things never turn out as planned and he may not be as smart as he considers himself.
bee
Where Sleeping Dogs Lie
Title: Where Sleeping Dogs Lie
Character: Stan Reeb
Released: November 13, 1991
Type: Movie
A murder mystery writer misreads the nervous man he bullies in a spooky Hollywood mansion.
bee
29th Street
Title: 29th Street
Character: Philly the Nap
Released: November 1, 1991
Type: Movie
After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police station.
bee
Rich Girl
Title: Rich Girl
Character: Rocco
Released: May 3, 1991
Type: Movie
A rich Beverly Hills girl gets a job as a waitress, and falls in love with a rock singer.
bee
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
Title: Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
Released: December 15, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
bee
My Blue Heaven
Title: My Blue Heaven
Character: Ritchie
Released: August 17, 1990
Type: Movie
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...
bee
Wedding Band
Title: Wedding Band
Character: Bruno Kavoles
Released: March 2, 1990
Type: Movie
A couple who both work at wedding receptions encounter complications when they decide to marry.
bee
Title: Grand
Character: Stavros
Released: January 18, 1990
Type: TV
In the piano-making town of Grand, Pennsylvania, Janice Pasetti keeps house for factory owner Harris Weldon, his newlywed niece and her husband, while raising her teenage daughter.
bee
Trenchcoat in Paradise
Title: Trenchcoat in Paradise
Character: Arky
Released: October 18, 1989
Type: Movie
Eddie Mazda is a hard nosed private eye who gets in too close to the mob and is forced to leave Jersey City. He decides to open up shop in Hawaii.
bee
Hollywood Heartbreak
Title: Hollywood Heartbreak
Character: L.R. Sharkey
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A wannabe writer who's just moved to Hollywood tries to pitch his script idea to various producers who won't give him the time of day.
bee
Cold Steel
Title: Cold Steel
Character: Fishman
Released: December 11, 1987
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, Johnny Modine's father is murdered by a psycho cut-throat. The cop swears bloody revenge, though he's taken off the case. He doesn't suspect yet that he's also the target in a diabolic plan of revenge.
bee
Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife
Title: Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife
Character: Aldo
Released: January 18, 1987
Type: Movie
A fashion designer marries a lawyer only to discover that his father is an imfamous mafia don.
bee
Brotherly Love
Title: Brotherly Love
Character: Anthony Scarnato
Released: May 28, 1985
Type: Movie
A businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother, who has just been released from a mental hospital.
bee
The Cotton Club
Title: The Cotton Club
Character: Mike Best
Released: December 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
bee
Title: Dreams
Character: Frank Franconi
Released: October 3, 1984
Type: TV
Dreams is an American television series that aired in 1984-1985 for one season on CBS. It follows the story of a fictional rock band that tries to get a recording contract.
bee
Title: Hunter
Character: Brian Carmichael / Lucky Lacy / Mr. Monks
Released: September 18, 1984
Type: TV
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
bee
Missing Pieces
Title: Missing Pieces
Character: Claude Papazian
Released: May 14, 1983
Type: Movie
A private detective has to deal with an unpleasant memory, a near-insoluble mystery, and a pursuing murderer inflicted with drugs and political corruption.
bee
Legs
Title: Legs
Character: Mr. Rizzo
Released: May 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Three hopefuls -- Shanna Reed, Deborah Geffner and Maureen Teefy -- each wants to be a Radio City Music Hall Rockette, vying for the one open spot the hall's choreographer, Gwen Verdon (in her TV-movie debut), has to fill. Sheree North plays Geffner's ex-Rockette mother and John Heard is a magazine reporter who falls for each of the aspiring dancers. The film was shot partially at Radio City Music Hall and was given a single public showing there several nights before its television premiere.
bee
Flashdance
Title: Flashdance
Character: Jake Mawby
Released: April 14, 1983
Type: Movie
Alex Owens, a teen juggling between two odd jobs, aspires to become a successful ballet dancer. Nick, who is her boss and lover, supports and encourages her to fulfil her dream.
bee
Hear No Evil
Title: Hear No Evil
Character: Lt. Lew Healy
Released: November 20, 1982
Type: Movie
A cop who became deaf as the result of a fight tries to break up a drug ring run by bikers.
bee
Title: Cheers
Character: Ed
Released: September 30, 1982
Type: TV
The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.
bee
Title: Family Ties
Character: Bud Carlson
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: TV
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
bee
Prince of the City
Title: Prince of the City
Character: Dave DeBennedeto
Released: August 19, 1981
Type: Movie
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.