Acting

Rob Riley

Long Grove, Illinois, USA

Born in Long Grove, Ill., Riley began his career in the Chicago improv scene, joining the famed Second City improv troupe in the 1980s and working alongside the likes of Jim Belushi, Tim Kazurinsky, and George Wendt. He was a writer for SNL between 1984 and 1985. Riley also made a name for himself in the Chicago theater scene, including productions of The Mystery Circle and Cadillac. He had several minor television and film roles, with credits including 2010’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, Chicago Fire, and Groundhog Day — in which he played a DJ whose voice wakes up Bill Murray each day when his radio alarm clock goes off.

Acting credits

Groundhog Day poster
7.6

A cynical TV weatherman, along with his idealistic producer and his sardonic cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.

Groundhog Day

1993

A Nightmare on Elm Street poster
5.5

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

2010

Ri¢hie Ri¢h poster
6.0

Billionaire heir Richie Rich has it all, including Reggie Jackson as a batting coach and Claudia Schiffer as a personal trainer -- but no playmates. What's more, scoundrel Laurence Van Dough is scheming to take over the family empire. Uh-oh! Enter faithful butler Cadbury to save the day.

Ri¢hie Ri¢h

1994

Will: G. Gordon Liddy poster
5.0

Based on the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy who spent 54 months in prison following the Watergate scandal.

Will: G. Gordon Liddy

1982

Prelude to a Kiss poster
5.6

A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.

Prelude to a Kiss

1992

Bill Murray Live from the Second City poster
10.0

Bill Murray celebrates Second City Theatre’s 20th birthday and looks back on his own memories (and lack thereof) performing on the famed Chicago stage.

Bill Murray Live from the Second City

1980

Mutant Video poster
NR

A bizarre collection of short films featuring easy laughs, cheap thrills, gratuitous sex, rock & roll aliens, wacky religion, senseless violence, bogus science, yummy desserts and much more!

Mutant Video

1986

Tab Lloyd: Investigative Reporter poster
NR

Spoof comedy.

Tab Lloyd: Investigative Reporter

1985

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NR

Two ice cream vendors become impatient with indecisive customers

Sugar or Plain

1984

Behind the camera