Acting

Richard Cotovsky

Born 1954-01-13 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Richard Cotovsky (born January 13, 1954) is an American character actor of film, stage, and television. He is also a director of stage. Richard Cotovsky was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Southern Illinois University. He transferred to the University of Illinois at the Medical Center in Chicago to earn a degree in pharmacy. In his senior year, he took introduction to the theater which made him interested in acting. In 1999, Cotovsky directed Brian Friel's play, "Freedom of the City," at the Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. He received a Joseph Jefferson Citation for directing this play which also received best ensemble and production. In 2000, he directed at Chicago, Illinois's Live Bait Theater's the world premiere of the John Susman play "Nelson & Simone". In 2006, he acted in the Sam Shepard play, "Buried Child," at the Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company.

Acting credits

Office Christmas Party poster
5.7

When Carol Vanstone, CEO of the technology company Zenotek, expresses her intention to close the Chicago branch, run by her brother Clay, he and his co-workers organize a Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and save their jobs. But the party gets out of control…

Office Christmas Party

2016

Stir of Echoes poster
6.7

After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.

Stir of Echoes

1999

Little Fockers poster
5.7

It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he's fully capable as the man of the house.

Little Fockers

2010

Broadcast Signal Intrusion poster
5.5

In the late 90s, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the dark conspiracy behind them.

Broadcast Signal Intrusion

2021

Bulls poster
5.7

Two down-on-their-luck half-brothers run a failing dive bar in Indiana and get a shot at taking on England’s elite darts champions.

Bulls

2026

No artwork available
NR

When a jaded bar videographer lands the chance to film the farewell tour of his music idols, he must navigate a chaotic world of eccentric superfans and a backstabbing rival - discovering that the real rock stars face the stage.

Concert Heroes

Monuments poster
5.9

A young widower sidesteps grief, loss, and familial dysfunction when he steals his wife's ashes and sets off on an impulsive odyssey through America's heartland to find something he'd lost long before her death.

Monuments

2021

Chat poster
9.5

A father afflicted by photophobia searches for his daughter lost in the world of cybersex chat.

Chat

2015

The Two Thieves poster
5.0

The story of an influential event 2000 years ago from the viewpoint of two people who had a unique perspective.

The Two Thieves

2014

Pictures of Baby Jane Doe poster
4.3

When down-on-his-luck photographer Horace meets Jane, a young streetwalker with a sordid lifestyle, they quickly fall in love and embark on a chaotic relationship of highs and lows. However, Jane's growing drug addiction and Horace's own personal demons threaten to tear them apart in this emotional romantic drama.

Pictures of Baby Jane Doe

1999

Design poster
7.0

The sad and sometimes darkly funny lives of various denizens of Chicago's social and economic underside provide the focus of this adventurous independent comedy-drama.

Design

2002

Lionel on a Sun Day poster
7.0

Lionel tries to get into a building through the stairwell, but are on each floor upheld by strange people.

Lionel on a Sun Day

1997

No artwork available
9.0

Three men steal a car.

The Ride

1997

Not Welcome poster
NR

A couple suspects that their McMansion might be haunted. In actuality, the ghost is a 30 year-old failure who has occupied vacant rooms for years without their knowledge. So begins an absurd turf-war in this comedy of errors populated by psychics, private investigators and spirits.

Not Welcome

2018

A Place to Be poster
4.8

Set against the background of a broken U.S. immigration system, A Place to Be is a love story between two young men, Abel & Diego. When tragedy strikes and Diego's immigration status is revealed, Abel and Diego discover the power of love during uncertain times.

A Place to Be

2017

No artwork available
NR

Adam, a newly sober former musician, and Marissa, a flight attendant whose marriage is in crisis, wind up on an epic Thanksgiving Day road trip, as they confront their families, their histories, and their choices about the road ahead. Turns-out, Thanksgiving is the time to say I love you.

Start Without Me

The Origins of Wit and Humor poster
NR

A comedy writer's need for approval leads him to a wonder elixir that bends his world into a surreal landscape of comedy tropes, which forces him to explore his own worth outside the writer's room.

The Origins of Wit and Humor

2015