Ray Sharkey

Acting

14-11-1952

14-11-1952

He/Him

Raymond Sharkey Jr. (November 14, 1952 – June 11, 1993) was an American stage, film and television actor. His most notable film role was Vincent Vacarri in the 1980 film The Idolmaker, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He is also known for his role as Sonny Steelgrave in the television series Wiseguy.

Popular Movies/Shows

The Streets of San Francisco

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.

The Ray Bradbury Theater

A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.

Jake and the Fatman

Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series.

Miami Vice

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.

The Equalizer

Geoffery Dryden

Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.

Barney Miller

Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.

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Faerie Tale Theatre

A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.

Crime Story

US Atty. Harry Breitel

The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.

All in the Family

Man At Clinic (uncredited)

Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.

Miami Vice

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.

The Jeffersons

Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.

Barney Miller

Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.

Movies (Acting)

Vinnie Fountain

Det. Victor Tomasino

In the Line of Duty: Street War

Round Trip to Heaven

Chrome Soldiers

Dead On: Relentless II

The Cops Are Robbers

The Rain Killer

27 Wagons Full of Cotton

The Neon Empire

Angel Velasquez

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

The Revenge of Al Capone

Sonny Steelgrave

P.I. Private Investigations

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp

92 Grosvenor Street

Sgt. Vinnie DiAngelo

Some Kind of Hero

The Ordeal of Bill Carney

Vincent 'Vinnie' Vacarri

Who'll Stop the Rain

TV Shows (Acting)

The Man in the Family

The Neon Empire

Jake and the Fatman

US Atty. Harry Breitel

Geoffery Dryden

The Ray Bradbury Theater

Faerie Tale Theatre

Gallagher (uncredited)

The Streets of San Francisco

Man At Clinic (uncredited)

All in the Family