Richard Gross

Acting

Richard Gross

Born 1948-01-01 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Richard was born in Pittsburgh, PA . His mother was a Welsh immigrant and his adoptive father was a native of Pittsburgh. Richard moved to Los Angeles with his family in the 60's and he graduated from Lennox High School. Richard went on to earn his BA in Theatre Arts from Cal State Dominguez Hills. He moved his family to Grass Valley, CA in 1979 and was active with the Foothill Theatre Company, a regional theatre in Nevada City. Richard came back to Los Angeles in 1991 to resume his TV/Film career. He still maintains his Northern California residence with his wife, Judy and their daughter Alexis. Richard and Judy have two other sons, Matthew and Justin.Richard is an 8 handicap golfer and club champion in 2011. He played softball and golf in the world senior games and won a Gold medal.He did over 70 skits on The Tonight with Jay Leno.

Acting credits

Phenomenon poster
6.5

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

Phenomenon

1996

Milk poster
7.2

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans.

Milk

2008

Swiss Army Man poster
6.9

Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.

Swiss Army Man

2016

Mad City poster
6.2

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

Mad City

1997

Hard Eight poster
6.8

A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

Hard Eight

1997

Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering poster
4.5

A bright young medical student must solve the frightening mystery that plagues the children of a small Midwestern town.

Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering

1996

The Deep End poster
6.1

With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?

The Deep End

2001

Chasing Mavericks poster
7.0

Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

Chasing Mavericks

2012

Gone But Not Forgotten poster
4.8

An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has entered a web of duplicity revenge & multiple murder.

Gone But Not Forgotten

2005

The Californians poster
5.0

When real estate mogul Gavin Ransom announces his plan to cover California's northern coast with scores of mini-mansions, his environmentalist sister, Olive, launches a protest to stop him. But there's trouble ahead when Gavin begins falling for the pretty folk singer who's helping Olive's cause.

The Californians

2005

Bottle Shock poster
6.4

Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital. Stumbling upon the Napa Valley, the stuck-up Englishman is shocked to discover a winery turning out top-notch chardonnay. Determined to make a name for himself, he sets about getting the booze back to Paris.

Bottle Shock

2008

The Tripper poster
4.9

A Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies who are heading to a weekend-long concert.

The Tripper

2006

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo poster
5.4

The dance crew from "Breakin'" bands together to save a community center from a greedy developer bent on building a shopping center in its place.

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

1984

Inferno poster
4.3

A fire chief is investigating the cause of a string of blazes that threaten to destroy her small town, while at the same time dealing with her teen daughter's rebelliousness.

Inferno

2002

Dead Tone poster
4.7

As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival.

Dead Tone

2007

The Second Civil War poster
6.1

When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue.

The Second Civil War

1997

The Awakened poster
3.3

On the outskirts of a small mountain town, retired farmer Hank Taylor decides to pull down an old dead tree that sits on the edge of his property. Hank soon discovers something strange buried in the ground beneath...something large, metallic and not of this earth. Dormant for over 200 years, the object’s power returns, resurrecting the hibernating occupants from a long slumber and turning the Taylor farm into an arena of heart-pounding terror. As the inhabitants of the farm take refuge in the secluded farm house, a group of mysterious covert government agents callously monitors the situation. Why have the Aliens traveled to Earth? Are the Government Agents hiding something?

The Awakened

2009

The Last Place on Earth poster
5.7

Rob Baskin, a businessman who travels to Lake Tahoe in order to spread the ashes of his late mother, meets Ann Field, a woman who'll change his life forever.

The Last Place on Earth

2002

Blades poster
5.5

A peaceful country club becomes the hunting ground for a demonically possessed lawnmower with a taste for human flesh.

Blades

1988

Straight from the Heart poster
6.5

Jordan Donavan, a photographer in New York, is so disappointed when after five years of going steady Edward Morgan offers her not marriage but just to move in with him, that she accepts the match-making arranged via a magazine by her female friend with Tyler Ross, a horse rancher in the West, whose candidacy was actually also posted by his sister. After a bad start they soon grow closer.

Straight from the Heart

2003

Stolen Innocence poster
6.2

Stacy, a rebellious teenager, leaves home for the freedom and adventure of life on the road away from her parents. Afraid and alone, she is befriended by Richard, a handsome ex-con traveling across the country on a crime spree. Her short lived joy soon turns to terror.

Stolen Innocence

1995

Deadly Whispers poster
5.1

Tom Acton, a devoted family man, has worked tirelessly in order to achieve success. However, his dreams are shattered when his teenage daughter Kathy engages in an affair with a married man. When Kathy is found murdered, Tom becomes the primary suspect in the case. As he sets his sights on the real killer, long buried secrets bubble to the surface and unlock the truth behind the ghastly murder.

Deadly Whispers

1995

Tainted Blood poster
5.2

After a 17-year-old shoots his parents dead and then turns the gun on himself, an investigative reporter makes a disturbing discovery. The adopted boy was born to a mother who, as a teen, inexplicably murdered her parents as well. Even more alarming is the discovery that the dead boy has a twin, who may also be genetically predisposed to kill.

Tainted Blood

1993

The Harvesters poster
9.0

Danielle Carver had a heart transplant. When she and her father decide to thank the mother of the donor heart's boy, they find out that she knows nothing of the donation.

The Harvesters

2000