Ric Carrott

Acting

Ric Carrott

Born 1949-02-05 · USA

Ric Carrott was an American actor, active during the 1970s. Youthful-looking and handsome, Carrott's only regular television series role was as Captain Chris Gentry, on the Saturday morning children's series Space Academy, but he made guest appearances on numerous popular shows of the decade. These included Nanny and the Professor, The Partridge Family, Love American Style, Dirty Sally, The Bob Newhart Show, The Odd Couple, The Blue Knight, The Streets of San Francisco, Lucas Tanner, S.W.A.T., Cannon, and later The Rockford Files, Starsky and Hutch, Barnaby Jones, Fantasy Island and Three's Company. Carrott originated the role of Chuck Cunningham, in the pilot for Happy Days (which aired as a segment of Love, American Style, "Love and the Happy Days"), later played by Gavan O'Herlihy in the series. His film work includes roles in The Swinging Cheerleaders (also known as Locker Room Girls), Earthquake, Slashed Dreams, Mother, Jugs & Speed, Marathon Man, and the television movies A Summer Without Boys, Hurricane, SST: Death Flight, and When Hell was in Session.

Acting credits

Earthquake poster
6.2

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

Earthquake

1974

Marathon Man poster
7.2

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

Marathon Man

1976

Slashed Dreams poster
3.7

A couple on vacation in the woods is stalked by a pair of rapists.

Slashed Dreams

1975

Mother, Jugs & Speed poster
5.4

To beat out competing ambulance services, an ace driver, an office secretary/paramedic and a suspended cop resort to some outrageous behavior to help people in distress. They're a crew whose condition is even more critical than their clients!

Mother, Jugs & Speed

1976

SST: Death Flight poster
5.4

On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard.

SST: Death Flight

1978

When Hell Was in Session poster
7.5

This film describes Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton's 7-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war. Held in numerous, brutal POW camps, he faced starvation, torture and terrible living conditions brought on by his North Vietnamese captors in an effort to keep communication alive between the prisoners. His wife, Jane, is also arranging a POW wives league in the U.S. in order to popularize their plight.

When Hell Was in Session

1979

The Swinging Cheerleaders poster
5.7

In order to write an expose on how cheerleading demeans women, a reporter for a college newspaper infiltrates the cheerleading squad.

The Swinging Cheerleaders

1974

A Summer Without Boys poster
7.3

A middle-aged woman going through a divorce takes her daughter to a summer lodge where the girl experiences a powerful awakening to life's challenges.

A Summer Without Boys

1973