Ron Dean is a character actor with over thirty years of film and television roles to his credit. This multi-talented actor, with a "tough guy" demeanor, has masterfully played nasty villains to hard, authoritative individuals (often as cops and military officials). Ron Dean has played in several notable films with many of Hollywood's biggest names...
Short haired, tough talking character actor who works almost exclusively in the Chicago area.
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Fact
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Is undeniably all Casting Directors first thought when they need a "Chicago" type role or Cop role filled. His second job according to IMDB was in a TV Show that was short lived. It was set in Chicago! Since he "has" a Chicago accent it would be the first thought for any casting agent. He has been typecast ever since. Also he has played a Chicago Cop more than any other actor not in a regular reoccurring role. This includes his fourth role and most best known in Risky Business starring Tom Cruise. (1983) Other notable Cop roles in the best known "The Fugitive with Harrison Ford And Tommy Lee Jones, The Package With Jones again and Gene Hackman, an episode of the popular T.J. Hooker with William Shatner, Also a series regular on Crime Story with "the other Chicago type" Dennis Farina who himself is a real Chicago Cop (retired). Other notable cop roles came in the, TV Movie and Series Angel Street, A retired Chicago cop in TV Series Early Edition, Another TV Series Special Unit , plus are other roles too numerous to mention. All in all he has played a Chicago Cop in 5 contiguous Decades. (1979-2012 as of 4/2016) Of curiosity, while Dennis Farina did play a Cop in, 'Law and Order SVU' in New York, oddly in Dean's visit to the New York Cop show, "NYPD Blue". He did not play a cop in his reoccurring role!.
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Was considered for the role of George Ward in The Fighter (2010).
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He was nominated for a 1996 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "Supple in Combat" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.
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Has appeared in most films by director Andrew Davis
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Chicago P.D.
2016
TV Series
Ray Sharansky
Sense8
2015
TV Series
Duke
Recalculating
2013
Short
Tom Avery
Chicago Fire
2012-2013
TV Series
James Whoritsky
One Small Hitch
2013
Art Burke
The Voices from Beyond
2012
Captain
Sam Steele and the Crystal Chalice
2011
Vladimir
The Beast
2009
TV Series
Petransky
Raging Goodfellow
2008
Video short
Bob
The Dark Knight
2008
Wuertz
Voices from the Graves
2006
Captain Larsen
The Guardian
2006/I
Navy Captain
Still Standing
2004-2006
TV Series
Slim Callahan
Cold Case
2005
TV Series
Troy Cage - 2005
Six Feet Under
2005
TV Series
Karl Holzenchenko
Numb3rs
2005
TV Series
Peter Watson
The Wild Card
2004
Video
Brooks
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2004
TV Series
Woody
NYPD Blue
1994-2004
TV Series
Joe Brockhurst / Vincent Mackie
Without a Trace
2004
TV Series
Willie
The West Wing
2004
TV Series
Tom Broderick
Wild Things 2
2004
Video
Judge Ruben
The Handler
2004
TV Series
Karen Sisco
2003
TV Series
Swimming Upstream
2002
Coach Cramer
Lana's Rain
2002
Lou
Raising Dad
2002
TV Series
Mr. Zafrani
Joey Petrone: TV Cop
2001
Short
Sam G
Special Unit 2
2001
TV Series
Police Captain
What About Joan
2001
TV Series
Mr. Howard Evans
Family Law
2001
TV Series
Sailorman
2000
Short
Willie the Hot Dog Vendor
Early Edition
1996-2000
TV Series
Det. Marion Zeke Crumb
Det. Marion Zeke Crumb, Ret.
Marion Zeke Crumb, P.I.
$600,000
