Richard Masur

Richard Masur

November 20, 1948 · 77 years old

Richard Masur (born November 20, 1948) is an American actor who has appeared in more than 80 movies during his career. From 1995-1999, he served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Masur sits on the Corporate Board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund.

Known For

37 titles
1
The Thing

The Thing

1982 · 1h 49m · Movie

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

8.2
2
Risky Business

Risky Business

1983 · 1h 39m · Movie

A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.

6.8
3
My Girl

My Girl

1991 · 1h 42m · Movie

Vada is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. When Vada's father hires Shelly, a makeup expert, and begins to fall in love, Vada is outraged and does everything in her power to split them up.

6.9
4
Encino Man

Encino Man

1992 · 1h 28m · Movie

When they find a frozen caveman in their back yard, two high school outcasts thaw him and introduce him to modern life while he in turn gets them to actually enjoy life.

5.9
5
Don't Think Twice

Don't Think Twice

2016 · 1h 32m · Movie

When a member of a popular New York City improv troupe gets a huge break, the rest of the group - all best friends - start to realize that not everyone is going to make it after all.

6.8
6
Multiplicity

Multiplicity

1996 · 1h 57m · Movie

A family man who never has enough time for the things he wants to do takes advantage of the opportunity to have himself cloned.

6.1
7
The Man Without a Face

The Man Without a Face

1993 · 1h 55m · Movie

Chuck wants to leave home but can't make the grade for boarding school. Then he finds out the disfigured recluse living nearby is an ex-teacher.

6.7
8
Six Degrees of Separation

Six Degrees of Separation

1993 · 1h 52m · Movie

An affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.

6.8
9
License to Drive

License to Drive

1988 · 1h 28m · Movie

A teen decides to go for a night on the town with his friends despite flunking his driver's test.

6.3
10
My Girl 2

My Girl 2

1994 · 1h 39m · Movie

Vada Sultenfuss must go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil to do some research on her mother's life, but finds much more.

5.3
11
Fire Down Below

Fire Down Below

1997 · 1h 45m · Movie

A federal agent uncovers lucrative toxic waste dumps in Appalachia and must deal with the locals who want to keep their 'gold mine' secret.

5.1
12
Heaven's Gate

Heaven's Gate

1980 · 3h 39m · Movie

During the Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, a sheriff born into wealth does his best to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.

6.7
13
61*

61*

2001 · 2h 9m · Movie

Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle race to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record.

7.7
14
Shoot to Kill

Shoot to Kill

1988 · 1h 50m · Movie

An F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group.

6.8
15
Tumbledown

Tumbledown

2016 · 1h 45m · Movie

A young woman struggles to move on with her life after the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when a brash New York writer forces her to confront her loss and the ambiguous circumstances of his death.

6.2
16
Heartburn

Heartburn

1986 · 1h 48m · Movie

She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship Heartburn, nothing will.

6.1
17
Palindromes

Palindromes

2005 · 1h 40m · Movie

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.

6.7
18
Play It to the Bone

Play It to the Bone

1999 · 2h 4m · Movie

Two best friends and former middleweight contenders travel to Las Vegas to fight each other for the first time.

5.5
19
Under Fire

Under Fire

1983 · 2h 8m · Movie

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somoza regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

7.0
20
My Science Project

My Science Project

1985 · 1h 34m · Movie

A high school student and his friend find a strange, orb-like piece of equipment to use as a science project, but must stop it when it begins to threaten mankind.

5.9
21
Hanover Street

Hanover Street

1979 · 1h 49m · Movie

Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.

6.0
22
Flashback

Flashback

1990 · 1h 48m · Movie

At last the Feds have caught him! Infamous 60's radical Huey Walker is heading for jail. So how come it's Huey's yuptight FBI escort who ends up behind bars?

6.2
23
The Mean Season

The Mean Season

1985 · 1h 43m · Movie

When a teenager is shot at the beach, a journalist from The Miami Journal is sent to cover the story. He's called by the murderer and told there'll be four more.

6.1
24
Nightmares

Nightmares

1983 · 1h 39m · Movie

Anthology of four horror tales with a supernatural twist based on urban legends.

5.7
25
The Burning Bed

The Burning Bed

1984 · 1h 35m · Movie

A battered wife sets the bed on fire with her husband in it.

7.2
26
Who'll Stop the Rain

Who'll Stop the Rain

1978 · 2h 6m · Movie

A Vietnam veteran involves his Wife and a war buddy in the dangerous world of drug smuggling.

6.7
27
Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger Hunt

1979 · 1h 56m · Movie

To inherit a fortune, various addressees of a will must compete in a wild scavenger hunt to collect selected items, but cannot be simply bought.

5.8
28
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

1982 · 1h 34m · Movie

A maverick motorbike racer wanders into a top-secret time-travel research test site which unintentionally teleports him to the mid-1800s and ends up having to fight violent outlaws for his survival.

5.4
29
Rent-a-Cop

Rent-a-Cop

1987 · 1h 36m · Movie

Detective Tony is forced to retire and become a store rent-a-cop when his drug sting operation comes to a tragic end by a masked killer. He joins forces with a prostitute, the only one able to identify the killer, to bring him to ...

4.7
30
Head Office

Head Office

1985 · 1h 30m · Movie

Lazy, womanizing Jack gets employed at the NYC HQ of the multinational conglomerate, INC. Crazy chaos, promotions, firings, suicides etc. seem to be the way of the day.

5.4
31
The Face on the Milk Carton

The Face on the Milk Carton

1995 · 1h 27m · Movie

A teenage girl sees a photograph of her much-younger self one day in the school cafeteria--on the side of a milk carton. But her beloved parents would never kidnap anyone and there's a deeper mystery ahead.

6.6
32
Going Under

Going Under

1991 · 1h 20m · Movie

International disaster looms as the USS Sub Standard has to race to get a nuclear weapon ahead of the Russian forces.

3.4
33
Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

1990 · 1h 34m · Movie

A woman is haunted by her dead daughter.

3.4
34
Hudson

Hudson

2019 · 1h 15m · Movie

On a journey to scatter his mother's ashes, a reclusive and timid man encounters unexpected friendships and a chance to start living his life.

6.2
35
Whiffs

Whiffs

1975 · 1h 31m · Movie

A private applies to be a test subject for the military's new chemical weapons program. After many tests he decides to use his knowledge on chemical warfare to rob banks. He will need a partner, though.

4.5
36
My Crasy Life

My Crasy Life

1992 · 1h 35m · Movie

A probing look at a Samoan street gang in a closed community in Long Beach, California with its own rules, rituals, and language.

7.0