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Biography
Richard Martin Tyson (born February 13, 1961) is an American actor.
Tyson was born in Mobile, Alabama. Tyson is a member of the Shriners. His brother John is the former District Attorney of Mobile County and was the Democratic Party nominee for Attorney General of Alabama in 2006.
Acting career
His most prominent role was as the villain Cullen Crisp, Sr. in Kindergarten Cop co-starring alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger. He also starred as high school bully Buddy Revell in the 1987 comedy Three O'Clock High. Tyson can also be seen in the Farrelly Brothers movies, Kingpin, Me, Myself & Irene and There's Something About Mary. The latter features Tyson as Detective Krevoy who questions (then attacks) Ben Stiller in a classic scene from the film.
Tyson was the co-star of the television series Hardball alongside actor John Ashton in the 1980s.
Tyson's recent films include The Fear Chamber, Richard III, Flight of the Living Dead (a film about a government-created virus that turns the dead into zombies being transported on a plane) in which he plays a Sky Marshal, No Bad Days starring Michael Madsen and the western Shoot First and Pray You Live also starring Jim Gaffigan and James Russo. He is also the lead in the horror film Big Bad Wolf, in which he plays a stepfather accused by his stepson of being a cruel and vicious werewolf.
One recent work is the film Jake's Corner in which he plays ex-football star Johnny Dunn who owns a small town called Jake's Corner. The film has been cited as Tyson's best work to date and also stars singer B. J. Thomas and actor Danny Trejo.
Richard Tyson's acting credits also include guest appearances on the TV shows CSI: NY, Boomtown, Martial Law as well as the films The Visitation, Moscow Heat, Liar's Poker and Black Hawk Down.
One of Tyson's favorite roles is Genghis Khan from the 1992 film also starring Charlton Heston and Pat Morita. Due to insufficient funds the film was never completed.
Filmography
- Three O'Clock High (1987)
- Disneyland (1988) (TV)
- Two Moon Junction (1988)
- Hardball (1989) (TV)
- Kindergarten Cop (1990)
- Red Shoe Diaries (1992) (TV)
- Lakota Moon (1992)
- The Babe (1992)
- Genghis Khan (1992)
- Dark Tide (1993)
- Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick (1993)
- Pharaoh's Army (1995)
- Time Under Fire (1996)
- Kingpin (1996)
- The Glass Cage (1996)
- The Sentinel (1997) (TV)
- Implicated (1998)
- There's Something About Mary (1998)
- The Pandora Project (1998)
- Buddy Faro (1998) (TV)
- Desert Thunder (1999)
- Liar's Poker (1999)
- Operation Sandman (2000)
- Martial Law (2000) (TV)
- Battlefield Earth (2000)
- Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
- Dying on the Edge (2001)
- Firetrap (2001)
- Monsoon (2001)
- Black Hawk Down (2001)
- Psychic Murders (2002)
- Cottonmouth (2002)
- Boomtown (2003) (TV)
- Crusader (2004)
- Last Flight Out (2004)
- The Trail to Hope Rose (2004)
- Moscow Heat (2004)
- Yesterday's Dreams (2005)
- Lonesome Matador (2005)
- Billy Graham Presents - Last Flight Out (2005)
- Naked Run (2006)
- The Visitation (2006)
- When I Find the Ocean (2006)
- Big Bad Wolf (2006)
- CSI: NY (2006) (TV)
- Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane (2007)
- The Dukes (2007)
- Stripper Academy (2007)
- Becoming (2007)
- Richard III (2008)
- Bigfoot (2008)
- Jake's Corner (2008)
- 3 Days Gone (2008)
- No Bad Days (2008)
- Shoot First and Pray You Live (Because Luck Has Nothing to Do with It) (2008)
- The Moonlighters (2009)
- The Fear Chamber (2009)
- The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (2009)
- Magic Man (2009)
- Dark Room Theater (2009)
- The Closer (2009) (TV)
- Inner City Snow (2009)
- Once Fallen (2010)
- Creative Differences (2010)
- Double Tap (2010)
- Sin-Jin Smyth (2010)
- YOU! (2011)
- The Story of Bonnie and Clyde (2011)
- Bound to vengeance (2015)
- Hayride
- Hayride 2 (2014)