Ron Karabatsos

Acting

Ron Karabatsos

Born 1933-04-22 · Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA

Ronald Christ Karabatsos (1933–2012) was an American character actor.

Acting credits

Get Shorty poster
6.5

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. 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.

Get Shorty

1995

Flashdance poster
6.5

Alex Owens, a young woman 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.

Flashdance

1983

The Cotton Club poster
6.5

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

The Cotton Club

1984

The Crew poster
5.4

Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.

The Crew

2000

Surviving Christmas poster
5.7

A wealthy executive, Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) has no close relationships and becomes nostalgic for his childhood home as Christmas approaches. When he visits the house and finds another family living there, he offers the residents, Tom Valco (James Gandolfini) and his wife, Christine (Catherine O'Hara), a large sum of money to pretend they are his parents. Soon Drew tests the couple's patience, and, when their daughter, Alicia (Christina Applegate), arrives, things get increasingly tense.

Surviving Christmas

2004

My Blue Heaven poster
6.1

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...

My Blue Heaven

1990

29th Street poster
6.9

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.

29th Street

1991

Prince of the City poster
7.0

New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice 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.

Prince of the City

1981

Hear No Evil poster
5.7

A cop who became deaf as the result of a fight tries to break up a drug ring run by bikers.

Hear No Evil

1982

Cold Steel poster
5.0

On Christmas Eve, Johnny Modine's father is murdered by a psycho cutthroat. 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.

Cold Steel

1987

Where Sleeping Dogs Lie poster
4.8

A murder mystery writer misreads the nervous man he bullies in a spooky Hollywood mansion.

Where Sleeping Dogs Lie

1991

Wedding Band poster
5.0

A couple who both work at wedding receptions encounter complications when they decide to marry.

Wedding Band

1990

Legs poster
7.0

Three ambitious young women risk it all when they compete for a chance to dance with the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes.

Legs

1983

Hollywood Heartbreak poster
5.5

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.

Hollywood Heartbreak

1988

Brotherly Love poster
7.3

A businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother, who has just been released from a mental hospital.

Brotherly Love

1985

Dead in the Water poster
5.4

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.

Dead in the Water

1991

Jailbait poster
3.2

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, and now both the police and the killers want to find her. In her search, Kyle ends up on the streets until renegade cop Sgt. Teffler takes her in. Now he must protect her while also trying to stop a white slavery ring from abducting more young girls.

Jailbait

1993

Hammer, Slammer, & Slade poster
7.0

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.

Hammer, Slammer, & Slade

1990

Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife poster
8.0

A fashion designer marries a lawyer only to discover that his father is an imfamous mafia don.

Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife

1987

Missing Pieces poster
9.0

A private detective has to deal with an unpleasant memory, a near-insoluble mystery, and a pursuing murderer inflicted with drugs and political corruption.

Missing Pieces

1983

Trenchcoat in Paradise poster
5.7

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.

Trenchcoat in Paradise

1989

Rich Girl poster
9.5

A rich Beverly Hills girl gets a job as a waitress, and falls in love with a rock singer.

Rich Girl

1991