Richard Tyson

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Richard Martin Tyson (born February 13, 1961) is an American actor.

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. Richard 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 Ben Stiller in a classic scene from the film.

Tyson was the co-star of the TV show Hardball alongside actor John Ashton in the 1980s.

Richard'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 step father accused by his stepson of being a cruel and vicious werewolf.

His most 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: New York, Boomtown, Martial Law as well as the films The Visitation (based on the best selling novel) Battlefield Earth, 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 unfortunately never completed.

Tyson was born in Mobile, Alabama. He enjoys playing golf and appears regularly on the Mr. Cigar radio show in Los Angeles, CA. He won the Peacemaker Award in Russia in 2006. Tyson is a 3° Freemason and a member of the Abba Shriners in Mobile, Alabama. He currently lives near Hollywood, CA with his wife and children. His brother John is currently the District Attorney of Mobile County since 1994 and was the Democratic Party nominee for Attorney General of Alabama in 2006.

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)
• Naked Run (2006)
• The Visitation (2006)
• When I Find the Ocean (2006)
• Big Bad Wolf (2006)
• CSI: New York (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)
• Once Fallen (2009)
• Creative Differences (2009)
• Double Tap (2009)
• Sin-Jin Smyth (2009)

External links

• Richard Tyson at the Internet Movie Database