Ron Dean
Date of birth: 1938-08-15
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Ron Dean (August 15, 1938 — October 5, 2025) was an American film and television actor. He appeared in films including Rudy, Risky Business, The Breakfast Club, Cocktail, The Babe, The Fugitive, The Client, and The Dark Knight. He was known for often playing detectives and other law-enforcement characters, most notably Det. Marion Zeke Crumb in the television show Early Edition.
Movie Credits
The Dark Knight
2008-07-16
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney
The Breakfast Club
1985-02-15
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hun
Code of Silence
1985-05-03
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants
The Package
1989-08-25
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Bo
The Color of Money
1986-10-17
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He
Light of Day
1987-02-06
Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems.
Above the Law
1988-04-08
Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthod
Voices from the Graves
2006-01-01
A police detective is investigated when he claims to see ghosts.
Nothing in Common
1986-07-29
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents e
Dream Breakers
1989-09-02
A movie about a Chicago family -- a building contractor and his two sons who have opposing ideologie
Lana's Rain
2002-10-01
This powerful, hard-edged crime drama explores the dark side of the American immigrant experience an
Chicago Cab
1998-09-18
A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad par
Cold Justice
1992-01-01
When a washed-up boxer invites a British priest to minister in his South Chicago neighborhood, he ne
Teachers
1984-10-05
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing t
Chain Reaction
1996-08-02
At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasali
Cocktail
1988-07-29
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar r
The Fugitive
1993-08-06
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the l
Sam Steele and the Crystal Chalice
2011-11-21
When Sam Steele Junior gets a term paper assignment on a visit by the Soviet Premier to the Midwest
The Naked Face
1984-06-01
Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns u
Risky Business
1983-08-05
Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. How
Pink Nights
1985-09-30
Danny is shy and always astonished how his friend Jeff can just walk up to a total stranger and say
Continental Divide
1981-09-18
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Heart of Steel
1983-12-04
A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family
Rudy
1993-09-17
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at
The Toughest Man in the World
1984-11-07
Mr. T's first starring made-for-TV movie role has him playing a tough and scowling, but softhearted,
Night of the Lawyers
1997-10-30
They are armed. They are dangerous. They are lawyers. A hard working emergency room doctor is being
Vegetable House
1985-01-01
Vegetable House is no garden variety comedy. When actor/writers Joe Doyle, Ron Dean (Code of Silence
The Client
1994-07-20
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, who
One Small Hitch
2013-02-14
On a flight home to Chicago for a family wedding, childhood friends Josh and Molly innocently agree
The Last Affair
1976-09-01
The wife of a sterile man steps outside the marriage with a gigolo in order to conceive.
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
1990-12-15
After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rooki
House of Angels: The Second Summer
1994-12-25
Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their ne
Wild Things 2
2004-02-19
Two Florida high school vixens hatch a murderous plan to win an inheritance, but they hadn't bargain
The Wild Card
2004-05-27
A Los Angeles trophy wife and her beautiful step daughter are kidnapped in Las Vegas by four gangste
Crime Story: Pilot
1986-09-18
One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.
Big Shots
1987-10-02
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South
Fatal Encounter
1990-01-01
A woman finds out that her biological father, a professional race car driver, was murdered twenty ye