Ed O'Ross
Ed O'Ross (actually Edward Orss ; born July 5, 1949 in Pensacola , Florida ) is an American actor .
Live and act
Edward Orss grew up in Pittsburgh , where he attended Munhall High School and then studied at Point Park College and the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1964 . After some success as an amateur boxer, he went to New York City , where he studied acting with Stella Adler and Uta Hagen . In 1982 he made his film debut in Peter Lilienthal's Dear Mr. Wonderful alongside Joe Pesci .
As a result, Ed O'Ross mainly played character roles, often as a policeman, officer or gangster. He had three of his most impressive appearances in 1987 as the drug dealer Mendez in Lethal Weapon , as Lt. Touchdown in Full Metal Jacket and as Detective Willis in The Hidden . Other roles in action films followed, alongside Carl Weathers in Action Jackson (1988), with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Red Heat (1988), with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte in And Again 48 Hours (1990) and with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren in Universal Soldier (1992).
O'Ross has been working increasingly for television since the mid-1990s, for example in a supporting role as florist Nikolai in Six Feet Under - Always Dying and with guest appearances in Boston Legal , Chicago Hope - Endstation Hope , CSI: NY , Frasier , New York Cops - NYPD Blue , Seinfeld (and spin-off Lass es, Larry! ), And Walker, Texas Ranger .
Filmography (selection)
- 1982: Dear Mr. Wonderful - Director: Peter Lilienthal
- 1984: The Pope of Greenwich Village (The Pope of Greenwich Village) - Director: Stuart Rosenberg
- 1984: The Cotton Club - Director: Francis Coppola
- 1985: Seven Minutes in Heaven - Director: Linda Feferman
- 1987: Lethal Weapon (Lethal Weapon) - Director: Richard Donner
- 1987: Full Metal Jacket - Directed by Stanley Kubrick
- 1987: The Hidden - Director: Jack Sholder
- 1987: The Verne Miller Story - Directed by Rod Hewitt
- 1988: Action Jackson - Director: Craig R. Baxley
- 1988: Red Heat - Director: Walter Hill
- 1990: And again 48 hours (Another 48 Hrs.) - Director: Walter Hill
- 1990: Dick Tracy - Director: Warren Beatty
- 1992: Universal Soldier - Director: Roland Emmerich
- 1992: Play Nice - Directed by Terri Treas
- 1993: Murder is Her Hobby : Blood Red Lache (Murder, She Wrote: The Survivor) - Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
- 1995: The Power Within - Directed by Art Camacho
- 1996: Navajo Blues - Director: Joey Travolta
- 1996: Dark Planet - Director: Albert Magnoli
- 1997 Harlem, NYC - The Price of Power (Hoodlum) - Director: Bill Duke
- 1998: Evasive Action - Director: Jerry P. Jacobs
- 1999: Y2K - Director: Richard Pepin
- 1999: Spanish Judges - Directed by Oz Scott
- 1999: Enemy Action - Director: Brian Katkin
- 2000: The Last Producer - Hollywood - Director: Burt Reynolds
- 2001: Mindstorm - Director: Richard Pepin
- 2002: The Gray in Between - Director: Josh Rofé
- 2007: Delta Farce - Director: CB Harding
- 2007: Nobody - directed by Shawn Linden
- 2011: 5 Nights in Hollywood - Director: Nick Agiashvili
- 2012: A Green Story - Director: Nick Agiashvili
- 2015: All In or Nothing - Directed by Chris W. Freeman, Justin Jones
Web links
- Ed O'Ross in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from www.filmreference.com ; according to other information, e.g. B. movieactors.com , born on 4. July 1946 as Ed Oross in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | O'Ross, Ed |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Orss, Edward (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pensacola , Florida |