Richard Tyson

Richard Tyson (born 1955 or 1956)^[4] is an American actor. He is best known as Kaz in Hardball (1989–1990) as well as his film roles in Three O'Clock High (1987), Two Moon Junction (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Bound to Vengeance (2015), and Playing with Dolls (2015).

Richard Tyson
Born	Richard Martin Tyson 1955 or 1956 (age 68–69) Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
Education	United States Naval Academy[1] University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (BA) Cornell University (MFA)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1986–present
Spouse	Tracy Kristofferson (m. July 1996; div. 2017)[2][3][additional citation(s) needed]
Children	1

Biography

Tyson was born in Mobile, Alabama.^[5] His brother John was the district attorney of Mobile County, and was later the Democratic Party nominee for attorney general of Alabama in 2006.^[6]

Tyson starred in Three O'Clock High, Kindergarten Cop and three films directed by the Farrelly brothers. He starred in the television series Hardball. His roles in the 2000s included The Fear Chamber, Richard III, Flight of the Living Dead, No Bad Days and the western Shoot First and Pray You Live. He starred in the horror film Big Bad Wolf in which he is accused by his stepson of being a cruel and vicious werewolf.

Tyson played a former football star who owned the eponymous town in Jake's Corner. He guest-starred in CSI: NY, Boomtown and Martial Law. His other film appearances include The Visitation, Liar's Poker and Black Hawk Down. Tyson played Genghis Khan in an unfinished film of the same name, which was originally scheduled for release in 1992.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Three O'Clock High	Buddy Revell	film debut
1988	Two Moon Junction	Perry Tyson
1990	Kindergarten Cop	Cullen Crisp Sr.
1992	Lakota Moon	Smoke	television movie
	The Babe	Guy Bush
	Genghis Khan	Genghis Khan	unfinished
1993	Dark Tide	Dak
1995	Pharaoh's Army	Rodie
1996	Time Under Fire	Koda
	Kingpin	strip club bouncer
	The Glass Cage	Paul Yaeger
1998	Implicated	Carl
	There's Something About Mary	Detective Krevoy
	The Pandora Project	Captain William Stenwick
1999	Desert Thunder	Ralph Streets
	Liar's Poker	Jack
2000	Operation Sandman	Gunnery Sergeant Riggins	television movie
	Battlefield Earth	Robert the Fox
	Me, Myself & Irene	Gun Shop Owner
2001	Dying on the Edge
	Firetrap	Paul Brody
	Monsoon
	Black Hawk Down	Busch
2002	Psychic Murders	David
	Cottonmouth	Thomas Carruth
2004	Crusader
	Last Flight Out	Dan
	The Trail to Hope Rose	Gerald Ruthledge
	Moscow Heat	Nikolay Klimov
2005	Yesterday's Dreams	Jake
	Lonesome Matador
2006	Naked Run	Lancer Higgins
	The Visitation	Sheriff Brett Henchle
	When I Find the Ocean	Dean
	Big Bad Wolf	Mitchell Toblat
2007	Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane	Paul Judd
	The Dukes	Ralph
	Stripper Academy	Mr. VIP
	Becoming
2008	Richard III	Duke of Clarence
	Jake's Corner	Johhny Dunn
	3 Days Gone	Agent Markowitz
	No Bad Days	Robert
	Shoot First and Pray You Live (Because Luck Has Nothing to Do with It)	Black Gandil Morgan
2009	The Moonlighters	Tubbs
	The Fear Chamber	Teddy
	Bigfoot	David Caldwell
	The Black Waters of Echo's Pond	Nicholas
	Magic Man	Detective Rogers
	Dark Room Theater	Officer Carlson
	Inner City Snow	Captain Hankie
2010	Once Fallen	Keys
	Creative Differences
	Double Tap	Captain Spears
	Sin-Jin Smyth		unreleased
2011	You!	Charles Martin
	The Story of Bonnie and Clyde
	Not Another Not Another Movie
2012	Hayride [7]	Morgan
2014	Ghost of Goodnight Lane	Ron
2015	Bound to Vengeance	Phil
	Another Turn in the Sun	Sergeant Wade
	Playing with Dolls	The Watcher / Scopophilio
	Hayride 2[8]	Morgan
2016	Boonville Redemption	Maddox
	The Perfect Weapon	Controller
	Playing with Dolls: Bloodlust	The Watcher / Scopophilio
2018	Death Kiss	Tyrell
2019	Night Walk	John

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Moonlighting	Daniel	1 episode
1988	Disneyland	Lute Newhouser
1989	China Beach	Cpl. Whitlow	1 episode
1989–1990	Hardball	Joe "Kaz" Kaczierowski	18 episodes
1992	Red Shoe Diaries	Bud	1 episode
1994	Winnetka Road	Dwayne Serlin	5 episodes
	Dead at 21	Cali	1 episode
	Christy	Billy Long	1 episode
1997	The Sentinel	Frank Rafferty	1 episode
1998	Buddy Faro		1 episode
2000	Martial Law
2003	Black Sash	Arnold Brady
	Boomtown	Frank Needham	1 episode
2006	CSI: NY	Frank Russo	1 episode
2009	The Closer	Ted	1 episode

References

1. Cranswick, Amie (October 7, 2016). "Exclusive interview with actor Richard Tyson". Flickering Myth. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
2. "Nineth [sic] Annual Diversity Awards". Getty Images. November 17, 2001. Retrieved July 8, 2021. Tracy Kristofferson and husband Richard Tyson
3. Sloan, Elizabeth (June 22, 2019). "Richard Tyson Arrested: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy. Retrieved July 8, 2021. they divorced in 2017
4. Harress, Christopher (1 July 2019). "Mobile Hollywood star Richard Tyson arrested again". AL.com. Retrieved 11 September 2020. The 63-year-old Hollywood star
5. Cuthbert, Matt (December 2008). "Mobile native actor Richard Tyson says he'd like to make more movies in Alabama". AL.com. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
6. Fleischauer, Eric (1 October 2006). "Why Tyson lost black votes to KKK sympathizer". The Decatur Daily. Tennessee. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
7. "Hayride 2 – Exclusive First Clip – Dread Central". Dread Central. 3 March 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
8. "Exclusive clip: Hospital horror in "HAYRIDE 2"". FANGORIA®. 3 March 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2015.

External links

• Richard Tyson at IMDb