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Acting

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Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-06-04 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Sy Richardson

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Sy Richardson is an American film and television actor.Richardson made his film debut as the Fairy Godmother, in the 1977 American erotic musical comedy Cinderella. He is perhaps best known as a regular in the films of Alex Cox, having appeared in Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Walker, The Winner and Searchers 2.0. He played "Turbo" in the 1990 film Tripwire. He recently had a recurring role as the coroner on the TV series Pushing Daisies. He is also in They Live and played a tough L.A. County Sherrif in the gang classic Colors.

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Acting

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Young & Naive as Self

2023

It Wants Blood 2 as Professor Smert

2019		Family Reunion as Brother Franklin
2019		5th of July as Pops

2017

Message From a Mistress as Mr. Hall

2015		Documentary Now! as David
2015		Faith of Our Fathers as Dan

2011

Larry Crowne as Avery

2010		Rizzoli & Isles as Sour Grapes
2010		A Numbers Game as Bernie
2010		Our Family Wedding as Sonny
2010		Hip-Hop Headstrong as The Bishop

2008

South of Heaven as Pawn Daddy

2007		Pushing Daisies as Coroner
2007		All About Us as Willie Earl
2007		Searchers 2.0 as Fritz Frobisher
2007		Lord Help Us as Church Member

2004

Surviving Christmas as Doo-Dah Understudy

2003

L.A. County 187 as Leotis Brown

2002		Monk as Sanitation Worker
2002		Monk as Janitor
2002		The Shield as Brother William

2001		Human Nature as Police Detective
2001		Extreme Honor as Schultz

2000		After Diff'rent Strokes: When the Laughter Stopped as Mr. Coleman
2000		The Playaz Court as Louie

1999		Mr. P's Dancing Sushi Bar
1999		Heat Vision and Jack as Doctor

1998		Charmed as Father Wilkins
1998		Erasable You as Miliatant
1998		Shattered Illusions as Gene

1996

Evil Obsession as Jim

1994		Floundering as Commander K
1994		ER as Coleman
1994		The Glass Shield as Mr. Taylor

1993		Posse as Shepherd
1993		Eye of the Stranger as Jeb
1993		Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel as Ernest

1992		Hangin' with Mr. Cooper as Mr. Gooding
1992		Martin

1990		To Sleep with Anger as Marsh
1990		Men at Work as Walt Richardson
1990		The Grifters as Cab Driver (uncredited)
1990		Street Asylum as Sgt. 'Joker' Tatum
1990		Wings as Luther
1990		Catchfire as Capt. Walker

1989		Tripwire as Turbo
1989		Mystery Train as Newsvendor
1989		Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects as Lavonne
1989		Three Fugitives as Tucker

1988		They Live as Black Revolutionary
1988		Tapeheads as Bartender
1988		Dead Man Walking as Snake
1988		Colors as Bailey
1988		Bad Dreams as Detective Wasserman

1987		Cold Steel as Rashid
1987		Walker as Captain Hornsby
1987		Straight to Hell as Norwood
1987		Medium Rare as Marv

1986

Sid and Nancy as Methadone Caseworker

1984

Repo Man as Lite

1983

My Brother's Wedding as Mr. Dubois

1982

Cheers as Gordon

1981

Falcon Crest as Detective Olen

1979

Nocturna as RH Factor

1978

Fairy Tales as Sirus

1977		Petey Wheatstraw as Petey's Father
1977		Cinderella as Fairy Godmother

Writing

1993

Posse as Writer