Richard Chaves
Date of birth: 1951-10-08
Place of birth: Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Richard John Chaves is an American character actor. In the early 1980s, he began work as an actor taking on various soap opera roles until he gained a role in 1987 as Poncho in the science fiction film Predator. Soon afterward, his career received another boost with the role of Lt. Colonel Ironhorse in the television series War of the Worlds. Chaves once calculated that the volume of fan mail he received outnumbered the rest of the cast members by a four or five to one ratio.
Movie Credits
Predator
1987-06-12
A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves h
L.A. Takedown
1989-08-27
The tale of two skilled professionals--one a cop, the other a criminal--who aren't as different as t
The Gambler: The Legend Continues
1987-11-22
Brady Hawkes and Billy Montana join forces once again in this new adventure. This time around their
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987-10-01
Real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War
Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
1988-05-01
Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealt
Baja Run
1996-04-30
A young Japanese woman and a naive American drug courier witness a L.A. drug-deal-gone-wrong shootou
Night Eyes II
1991-10-01
Security expert Will Griffith has been hired to secure the mansion of South American expatriate Hect
Cease Fire
1985-10-18
Tim Murphy is a Vietnam Vet. When he loses his job he starts to relive all the pain and horror of hi
The Penalty Phase
1986-11-18
Things looked pretty simple: the confessed murderer had all the evidence against him. The Prosecutor
Witness
1985-02-08
While protecting an Amish boy – the sole witness to a brutal murder – and his mother, a detective is
Fire on the Mountain
1981-11-23
A young real estate developer returns to his hometown to make a land killing but soon takes up the c
Night Realm
1994-12-12
Action-fantasy.
If It Bleeds We Can Kill It: The Making of 'Predator'
2000-12-26
A behind-the-scenes look at the 1987 sci-fi/action film that has since become one of the modern clas
Elf Sparkle Meets Christmas the Horse
2009-05-20
A fierce rainstorm has Santa’s sleigh stuck in the mud of Horseshoe Pond in the Cuyahoga Valley Nati