Sy Richardson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-06-04 (84 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sy Richardson,...

Acting

2011

Larry Crowne

as Avery

1988

Tapeheads

as Bartender

1990

Catchfire

as Capt. Walker

1987

1977

Petey Wheatstraw

as Petey's Father

1984

Repo Man

as Lite

1987

Walker

as Captain Hornsby

1978

Fairy Tales

as Sirus

2004

Surviving Christmas

as Doo-Dah Understudy

1977

Cinderella

as Fairy Godmother

2008

South of Heaven

as Pawn Daddy

2007

Searchers 2.0

as Fritz Frobisher

1988

Bad Dreams

as Detective Wasserman

2007

Lord Help Us

as Church Member

1979

Nocturna

as RH Factor

1988

2001

Human Nature

as Police Detective

1986

Sid and Nancy

as Methadone Caseworker

1990

Street Asylum

as Sgt. 'Joker' Tatum

1994

Floundering

as Commander K

2023

It Wants Blood 2

as Professor Smert

1988

They Live

as Black Revolutionary

1988

Colors

as Bailey

2007

All About Us

as Willie Earl

2010

1994

The Glass Shield

as Mr. Taylor

1983

1996

2010

1989

Tripwire

as Turbo

1990

Men at Work

as Walt Richardson

2003

L.A. County 187

as Leotis Brown

1989

1998

Erasable You

as Miliatant

1987

1993

Posse

as Shepherd

2019

1989

Mystery Train

as Newsvendor

1990

The Grifters

as Cab Driver (uncredited)

1987

Cold Steel

as Rashid

2000

2001

Extreme Honor

as Schultz

2010

Hip-Hop Headstrong

as The Bishop

1996

The Winner

as Bartender

Production

1993

Posse

as Writer

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