Richard Edson

Richard Edson

Richard Edson (born January 1, 1954) is an American actor and musician. He was born in New Rochelle, New York to a Jewish family.

In 1979, Edson was a founding member of the San Francisco art rock band The Alterboys with Snuky Tate, Tono Rondone, Richard Kelly and JC Garrett, playing both drums and trumpet. From 1981 to 1982, he was Sonic Youth’s original drummer and played drums for Konk at the same time. After the release of Sonic Youth’s self-titled debut EP, Edson left the band to play with Konk full-time. Edson also played trumpet with San Francisco band The Offs on the group’s eponymous 1984 album.

He started his acting career on screen in the feature film, Stranger Than Paradise (1984). Since then, he has been known for his roles in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), Do The Right Thing (1989), Super Mario Bros. (1993) and Strange Days (1995).

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Richard Edson Movies

Discover the best Richard Edson movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Richard Edson ranked by year and score.

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Strange Days

Strange Days (1995)

Crime Drama Science Fiction
Los Angeles, New Year's Eve 1999, and the city is coiled tight with millennial dread. Lenny Nero, a former cop now peddling black-market memory recordings on the street, gets his...
Score 7.0
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Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Adventure Comedy Family
Two Brooklyn plumbers named Mario and Luigi stumble into a parallel dimension where dinosaurs never went extinct and instead built a grimy, overcrowded city ruled by the tyrannical Koopa. Far...
Score 4.5
3
Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Drama
On the hottest day of a Brooklyn summer, small grievances calcify into something much larger. When a Black resident challenges the Italian owner of a neighborhood pizzeria over whose faces...
Score 7.8
4
Good Morning, Vietnam

Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

Comedy Drama War
Airman Adrian Cronauer arrives in 1965 Saigon with a mouth that moves faster than military protocol allows. His wildly irreverent broadcasts on Armed Forces Radio turn him into a cult...
Score 7.3
5
Walker

Walker (1987)

Drama History Western
In the 1850s, a Tennessee mercenary named William Walker led a private army into Nicaragua and, through sheer will and ruthlessness, installed himself as president. Alex Cox turns this buried...
Score 6.4
6
Platoon

Platoon (1986)

Action Drama War
Chris Taylor volunteered for Vietnam expecting something noble and came back a different person entirely. Oliver Stone's semi-autobiographical war film follows a college dropout thrust into the jungles of Southeast...
Score 7.7
7
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

Comedy
Ferris Bueller has exactly one day, one willing girlfriend, and one deeply anxious best friend standing between him and the kind of Chicago adventure that can't be graded on a...
Score 7.6

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