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Richard Venture
Born: 12th Nov 1923 New Jersey, USA - Died 19th Dec 2017
Dept: Acting
Richard Venture (November 12, 1923 - December 19, 2017) was an American actor, known for Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Scent of a Woman (1992) and Missing (1982).
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 84
Film: 46 (55%)
Television: 38 (45%)
Remaining genres not in graph: History, War & Politics, Romance, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Western, Science Fiction
Filmography
2001
A reality TV program selects six contestants to participate in a free-for-all, no holds barred deathmatch, where they must skillfully outwit and kill ... view
Character:
Franklin
1997
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the co ... view
Character:
Ambassador Reed
1996
A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female cho ... view
Character:
Don Boylar
Feb 1996 (first aired)
Second Noah is a television drama that was broadcast in the United States on ABC television from February 5, 1996 to June 8, 1997 ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1994
A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1960s Portland, Oregon. ... view
Character:
Judge Klein
Sep 1993 (first aired)
The John Larroquette Show is an American television sitcom .The show was a vehicle for John Larroquette following his run as Dan Fielding on Night Cou ... view
Character:
Simmons (1 ep.)
Aug 1993 (first aired)
A tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man and Harvard-educated smarty-britches roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed hi ... view
Character:
Mack Brackman (1 ep.)
Aug 1993 (first aired)
The Boys is an American sitcom television series that aired from August 20 until September 17, 1993. ... view
Character:
Al Kozarian (7 ep.)
1992
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for ... view
Character:
W.R. Slade
1991
A fact-based story, John Larroquette plays a hotshot executive that ends up in court over a certain charge. He is sentenced to community service. He i ... view
Character:
Sep 1991 (first aired)
Brooklyn Bridge is an American television program which aired on CBS between 1991 and 1993. It is about a Jewish American family living in Brooklyn in ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1990 (first aired)
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someo ... view
Character:
Defense Attorney Douglas Greer (5 ep.)
1990
During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discovers that a terrorist group has access to deadly, US-built Stinger missiles and must set out to loc ... view
Character:
Admiral Colker
1990
Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother is the story of Katherine Gerard (Sada Thompson) who has lost her son ... view
Character:
Arthur
1989
The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency. ... view
Character:
James St. Clair
Jul 1989 (first aired)
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing. ... view
Character:
Leonard West (1 ep.)
1989
A true account of the life of pioneering AIDS doctor James Oleske. ... view
Character:
Alan Davidson
Feb 1989 (first aired)
Hayden Fox, the curmudgeonly coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles football team, tries to navigate his way through the sports world, ... view
Character:
Lionel Carew (1 ep.)
1987
Gordon has a loving wife and two sons, Bryan and Keith, but he favors his spoiled younger son Keith over Bryan, who is defiant and not good at sports. ... view
Character:
Judge
1987
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence. ... view
Character:
Cardinal of Palermo
May 1987 (first aired)
Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a widely changing career, difficulties of apartment livi ... view
Character:
Edgar Bickford (8 ep.)
1986
A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad ... view
Character:
Colonel Meyers
Sep 1986 (first aired)
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994.
Created by Steven B ... view
Character:
Abe Lassen (1 ep.)
1986
A Chicago hockey star is accosted by a youth gang who attempt to rob him; after he chases them off he catches the youngest member and gives him a ride ... view
Character:
Gower
1986
Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threate ... view
Character:
Brevard Holt
1986
Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashbac ... view
Character:
Dr. David Bradley
Sep 1985 (first aired)
Four Southern Florida seniors share a house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Bright, promiscuous, clueless and hilarious, these lovely, m ... view
Character:
Milton (1 ep.)
Jan 1985 (first aired)
A newly minted attorney joins the legal aid clinic in San Francisco where her best friend works. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jan 1985 (first aired)
MacGruder and Loud is an American crime drama from Aaron Spelling Productions that aired on ABC in 1985.
The series stars John Getz and Kathryn Harro ... view
Character:
Ray (1 ep.)
Jan 1985 (first aired)
Street Hawk is an American television series that aired for 13 episodes on ABC in 1985. The series is a Limekiln and Templar Production in association ... view
Character:
Lt. Cmdr. Leo Altobelli (13 ep.)
Sep 1984 (first aired)
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases. ... view
Character:
George Latimer (1 ep.)
1984
Feature-length pilot of the 1980s action series following the exploits of motorbike riding superhero Jesse Mach (Rex Smith). Deskbound after being ser ... view
Character:
Lt. Cmdr. Leo Altobelli
Mar 1983 (first aired)
Follows the Cleary family over several decades, focusing on the central, tragic romance between Meggie and Father Ralph, who is torn between his vows ... view
Character:
Harry Gough (2 ep.)
1983
A 47-year-old real estate salesman gets trapped in the insidious web of cocaine addiction. ... view
Character:
Dan Hatten
Oct 1982 (first aired)
Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually be ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1982 (first aired)
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andr ... view
Character:
Agent Bert Carlyle (2 ep.)
1982
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to ... view
Character:
Earl Dorius
1982
Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his s ... view
Character:
U.S. Ambassador
Jan 1982 (first aired)
An American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show is based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. With a mixture ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Dec 1981 (first aired)
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A ... view
Character:
John Osborne (5 ep.)
1981
Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after schoo ... view
Character:
Mr. Hourgil
1981
Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self ... view
Character:
Dr. Neil Holzer
1981
A pair of cops, a pair of doctors, and a pair of lawyers examine a crime — the wounding of a ten-year-old girl by a sniper — from three different ... view
Character:
Judge Harold Stankey
Jan 1981 (first aired)
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1980
Small-time crook Rooney cons his crippled brother, a street-wise news vendor, into snatching a wealthy, emotionally-disturbed runaway to extort money ... view
Character:
Arthur Fairlain
1980
The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, bringing World War II t ... view
Character:
Alexander Sachs
1980
Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the pro ... view
Character:
Judge Richard Barber
1980
During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illi ... view
Character:
Pete Spota
1980
A teenage runaway attempts to readjust to home and family life in Minnesota after returning home after years of working on the streets of New York Cit ... view
Character:
Dr. Haas
Mar 1980 (first aired)
Short-lived comedy about construction workers enjoying themselves. The crew was all male except for Lucy – Randy the college grad; Buzz the extrover ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Dec 1979 (first aired)
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community. ... view
Character:
Simpson (3 ep.)
1979
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the s ... view
Character:
Wilson
1979
When politicians try to force out a renter in a corrupt real-estate deal, the man decides to take matters into his own hands. He takes a police office ... view
Character:
Ellinger
1979
An unmarried, middle-aged woman accidentally gets pregnant by an internationally renowned pianist and decides to keep and raise the baby on her own. ... view
Character:
Dr. Paul Jessup
1979
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice ... view
Character:
Glenn Bates
Feb 1979 (first aired)
The lives of the men and families of G Company, 24th Infantry Division, United States Army, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor. ... view
Character:
Col. Jack Delbart (3 ep.)
1978
A Hawaiian beach bum finds himself surrogate uncle to five orphaned children, helping them stay together, in this pilot movie for a TV series which tu ... view
Character:
Lead Actor
Jan 1978 (first aired)
A New York commercial artist and his wife and daughter move to a quiet, rustic New England village they visited during their travels, only to find the ... view
Character:
Richard (2 ep.)
1977
A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she b ... view
Character:
Doctor
Sep 1977 (first aired)
Carter Country is an American television sitcom that ran from 1977 to 1979 on ABC. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (2 ep.)
1977
A wealthy socialite is accused of killing her husband. She claims self-defense as a battered wife, and the district attorney plans to go along with th ... view
Character:
Roger
1977
The marriage of a wealthy, outwardly happy couple is threatened by the husband's alcoholism. ... view
Character:
Jack Morris
1977
Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of th ... view
Character:
Colonel
1977
A young man has to battle his greedy stepmother for control of his father's huge estate. ... view
Character:
Fenton
1977
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletio ... view
Character:
Commander Guay
1977
Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946. ... view
Character:
Joe Kane
Oct 1976 (first aired)
Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1976
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from ... view
Character:
Assistant Metro Editor
1976
The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family". ... view
Character:
Police Inspector
Jan 1976 (first aired)
In the fictional town of Fernwood, Ohio, suburban housewife Mary Hartman seeks the kind of domestic perfection promised by Reader’s Digest and TV co ... view
Character:
Mr. Billingsley (3 ep.)
1976
An unemployed man who lives with his wife and overbearing mother-in-law sees an opportunity to relieve himself of the old bat, which tangles him in a ... view
Character:
Fergy
Sep 1975 (first aired)
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the street ... view
Character:
Hilliard (2 ep.)
Sep 1975 (first aired)
Beat cop Joe Forrester walks the mean streets of Los Angeles. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jan 1975 (first aired)
Barney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. Always sensible, he maintains order over a band of detectives who gamble, hit on anything ... view
Character:
Charles Relkie (1 ep.)
Sep 1974 (first aired)
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockf ... view
Character:
Fred Metcalf (1 ep.)
Dr. Benjamin Crist (1 ep.)
Sep 1974 (first aired)
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob gi ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1974 (first aired)
After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1974
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her kill ... view
Character:
Man in Motel
Oct 1973 (first aired)
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City. ... view
Character:
Capt. Reardon (1 ep.)
Robert Smith (1 ep.)
Mar 1973 (first aired)
Detective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the Empire of Chaiba, a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia. He initiates a ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (3 ep.)
1972
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dream ... view
Character:
Floyd
Sep 1972 (first aired)
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1965
Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders. ... view
Character:
The 1st Man
