
Richard Riehle
Biography
Richard Riehle (born May 12, 1948) is an American actor. Richard attended the University of Notre Dame, where he became heavily involved with the University Theatre.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
The Cowboy Killer as Cook Gerald
2025500 Fireflies
2025Tonic as Edward
2025Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fueled Karma as Santa Claus
2024The Invisible Raptor as Sheriff Grimley
2024Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story as Nicolas Young
2024Feeling Randy as Wilfred
2024Sanity as Sheriff Huber
2024Ambush at St. Mary's as Father Jacob
2023Golden Vanity as Radio Announcer (voice)
2023Adventures of the Naked Umbrella as Granny
2023Invaders from Proxima B as Willy Felson
2023Poor Paul as Grandpa Paul
2023For Years to Come
2023Old Man Jackson as Father Donovan
2023Fuzzy Head as Sheriff John Cunningham
2022Surfside Girls as Old Man Olsen
2022Madelines as Rory Devonshire
2022Moon Manor as Gordon
2021The Wedding Pact 2: The Baby Pact as Henry Carter
2021Far More as Father Joe
2021Destination Marfa as Skeeter the cashier
2021For the Hits as Grandpa George
2021Digging to Death as Allen Palms
2020Jimmy's Jungle as Grandpa Bell
2020Faith Based as Herman
20193 from Hell as Sheriff Wolf
2019Limbo as Phil
201915 Minutes at 400 Degrees as John
2019Boomerang
2019The Meanest Man in Texas as Mr. Kilpatrick
2019Chase as Turley
2019PawParazzi as Bobby
2019Now Apocalypse as Neil
2019Nowhere, Michigan as Martin
2018Living Room Coffin as Nate
2018A Very Nutty Christmas as Drosselmeyer
2018Puppy Star Christmas as Santa Claus
2018Bullitt County as The Mr.
2018The Invisible Mother as Archie
2018Heels as Calvin
2018West of Hell as The Conductor
2018Fishbowl California as Glen
2018The Acorn as Mr. Ives
2018Deadman Standing as Clarence Potts
201820 Weeks as Keenan
2018Barry as Warden
2018Bad Apples as Principal Dale
2017Made Vicious as Lawyer Justice
2017Aquarians
2017You Have a Nice Flight as Bob
2017Breaking Legs as Principal Bater
2017Pitching Tents as Grandpa
2017Love at First Glance as Wally
2017Miyubi as Grandpa
2016American Housewife as Gerald
2016A Father's Secret as Ian Stone
2016Schlep as Uncle Bill
2016Last Man Club as Grady Reeds
2016Citrus Springs as George
2016Fear, Inc. as Bill Peterson
2016Pee-wee's Big Holiday as Dan
2016Fuller House as Uncle Monty
2015Dementia as Sam
2015Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves as Sheriff Ryan
2015Daddy as Al Rubin
2015Amnesiac as Postman
2015Contracted: Phase II as Deuce Gelman
2015Boredom as John
2015Lights Out as Harold
2015Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant as Bartender
2015Roommate Wanted as Dr. Hoffman
2014All I Want for Christmas as Sal
2014There's Always Woodstock as Mr. Harmon
2014Pilot Error as Roy Grimm
2014The Three Dogateers as Santa
2014black-ish as Solomon
2014The Scribbler as Officer O'Reilly
2014Transformers: Age of Extinction as Theater Landlord
2014The Cabining as Sarge
2014Lovesick as Father
2014In Your Eyes as Mr. Padgham
2014Gone Doggy Gone as Stan Janson
2013Mischief Night as Trucker
2013The Secret Village as Paul
2013Friended to Death
2013Mom as John
2013Munchausen as Doctor
2013Coffee, Kill Boss as Vincent Brutsi
2013Drunk History as Ralph Himmelsbach
2013Drunk History as James Roche
2013Girl Meets Boy as Raymond
2013Friend Request as Frank
2013Jack's Not Sick Anymore
2013Lonely Boy as Mr. Fitz
2013Blue Dream as Ted Sellers
2013Texas Chainsaw 3D as Farnsworth
2012The Mindy Project as George Menken
2012FDR: American Badass! as Senator Bronson
2012The Soul Man as Larry
2012Dead Man's Burden as Three Penny Hank
2012BearCity 2: The Proposal as Gabe
2012Stitch in Time as Norman Stitch
20123 Days of Normal as Chief Dale Nickens
2012Men at Work as Gus
2012Lake Effects as Chairman McCarren
2012WaterWalk as Jim T
2012The Legend of Korra as Bumi (voice)
2012Last Call as Harold
2012Bad Ass as Father Miller
2012The Client List as Jim Richardson
2012Darnell Dawkins: Mouth Guitar Legend as Howlin' Hal Halsby
2012Extracted as Father Riley
2012Treasure Buddies as Thomas Howard
2012Breathless as Deputy Cole
2011The Watermen as Belvine Lee Smith
2011A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas as Santa Claus
2011Chillerama as Cecil Kaufman
2011Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer as Ringmaster
2011Bridesmaids as Bill Cozbi
20101,001 Ways to Enjoy the Missionary Position as Charlie
2010The Search for Santa Paws as Santa Claus
2010Miss Nobody as Leonard Ormsby
2010Breakdance Academy as Principal Collins
2010Five Star Day as Jim the Plumber
2010Gay Baby as Dr. Feldman
2010Growth as Larkin Holberman
2010Killer by Nature as Warden Upton
2009The League as Santa Claus
2009The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu as Mr. Snodgrass
2009The Middle as Sheriff Dugan
2009Modern Family as Norman
2009Halloween II as Buddy The Night Watchman
2009Messengers 2: The Scarecrow as Jude Weatherby
2009Project Solitude as Frederick Sterling
2009Nowhere to Hide as Toley
2009Better Off Ted as Bob
2009Dinner with Raphael as Mr. Siegfried
2009Stellina Blue as Dr. Helfenstein
2008Our First Christmas as Santa
2008Bait Shop as Gus
2008Red as Sam
2008Your Name Here as Lipschitz
2008A Plumm Summer as Art Bublin
2008Audie & the Wolf as Michael Ludlow
2008Necessary Evil as Capt. Parsons
2008Hindsight as Peter
2007Smiley Face as Mr. Spencer
2007Big Stan as Judge Perry
2007Resurrection Mary as Detective Mahoney
2007Wasting Away as Colonel South
2007Choose Connor as Grant Miller
2007American Body Shop
2007The Man from Earth as Dr. Will Gruber
2007Spinning Into Butter as Paul Meyers
2006Domestic Import as Sam the Mailman
2006Dorm Daze 2 as Captain Bunkley
2006Down the P.C.H. as Ricky
2006Price To Pay as Hooper
2006Psych as Amy Johnson
2006The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell as Narrator / Paranormal Historian
2006Hatchet as Jim Permatteo
2006Hot Tamale as Sheriff Pinkham
2006Intellectual Property as Detective Rees
2006The Lost as Bill Richmond
2006Midnight Clear as Tommy
2006The Darkroom as Emilio
2006Fierce Friend as Phone Tech
2006Little Big Top as Bob
2005The 12 Dogs of Christmas as Mayor Noble Doyle
2005The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green as Hat Sister
2005Neo Ned as Officer Roy Pendleton
2005Mysterious Skin as Charlie
2005Palindromes as Dr. Dan
2004Boston Legal as Dr. Barry Glouberman
2004The Gristle as Starnes
2004Home on the Range as Sheriff (voice)
2004NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323 as Ernie Wilson
2004Death and Texas as Prison Warden
2003The Hebrew Hammer as Santa
2003Beethoven's 5th as Vaughn Carter
2003Monster Makers as Det. Brennan
2003Time Changer as Dr. Wiseman
2003Married to the Kellys as Uncle Dave
2003NCIS as Walt Osorio
2003Two and a Half Men as Santa
2003Tremors as Helmut Krause
2003Ken Park as Murph
2002Fillmore!
2002Another pretty face
2002George Lopez as Eddie Carter
2002The Laramie Project as Henderson Trial Judge
2001Bandits as Lawrence Fife
2001The Parlor as Beth
2001Star Trek: Enterprise as Dr. Jeremy Lucas
2001Joe Dirt as Car Dealer
2001Say It Isn't So as Sheriff Merle Hobbs
2001The Fluffer as Sam Martins
2001Grounded for Life as Walt Finnerty
2000Crash Point Zero as Alan Douglas
1999Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo as Bob Bigalow
1999Hard Time: Hostage Hotel as Capt. Rich Waters
1999The West Wing as Officer Jack Sloan
1999Blink of an Eye as Main Prison Guard
1999Au Pair as Sam Morgan
1999Balloon Farm as Earl
1999Hard Time: The Premonition as Capt. Waters
1999Office Space as Tom Smykowski
1999Kill the Man as Mr. Ellias
1999Providence as Simon, Inspector
1999The Arrangement as Det. Bert Hershak
1998Mighty Joe Young as Commander Gorman
1998Richie Rich's Christmas Wish as Sgt. Mooney
1998The Thin Pink Line as Governor Eastman
1998The Lesser Evil as Detective Smitts
1998Mr. Murder as John Wexel
1998Judas Kiss as Security Guard
1998One of Our Own as Burt Herchak
1998Lethal Weapon 4 as INS Agent
1998Perfect Prey as Detective Bevlan
1998Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as Dune Buggy Driver
1998Driven as Leon
1998The Odd Couple II as Detective
1998Mercury Rising as Edgar Halstrom
1998The Pentagon Wars as General Vice
1998Desperate Measures as Ed Fayne
1998The Ransom of Red Chief as Narrator / Sheriff 'T-Bone' Yankum
1997Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest as Jack Ogden
1997Cold Night Into Dawn as Gerald
1997River Made to Drown In as Heavyset Man
1997Brooklyn South as Donald Jarman
1997The Visitor as Principal Shinagel
1997Ally McBeal as Jack Billings
1997One Eight Seven as Walter
1997Trading Favors as Highway Patrolman
1997Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Merrick
1997The Practice as Mr. Holt
1997Dilemma as Captain Ross
1996Ghosts of Mississippi as Tommy Mayfield
1996Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Jedediah
1996The Pretender as Graham Hawkes
1996Men Behaving Badly as Stranger
1996Killer: A Journal of Murder as Warden Quince
19967th Heaven as Crossroads Mayor
1996The Fan as Shopkeeper
1996Too Fast Too Young as Sergeant
1996Soul of the Game as Pete Harmon
1996Executive Decision as Air Marshal
1996Terminal as Security Chief
1995Casino as Charlie Clark
1995Trial by Fire as Fred Cobb
1995The Single Guy as Mr. Van Wagner
1995Murder One
1995Lone Justice 2 as Mayor
1995Dominion as Larry
1995Jury Duty as Principal Beasely
1995Stuart Saves His Family as Judge
1995A Stranger in Town as Sheriff
1995Star Trek: Voyager as Seamus Driscol
1995Get Smart as Mr. Winters
1994ER as Mandrake Patient
1994Chicago Hope as Milo Schwarz
1994Shadow of Obsession as DA Applegate
1994Holy Matrimony as Greeson
1994Lightning Jack as Marcus
1994Iron Will as Burton
1993Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss as Mort Aberdine
1993Diagnosis: Murder as Dustin Woods
1993A Dangerous Woman as John
1993Ned Blessing
1993The Fugitive as Old Guard
1993Free Willy as Wade
1993For Their Own Good as Dave Butler
1993Body of Evidence as Detective Griffin
1992Shaky Ground as Henry McCallister
1992The Public Eye as Officer O'Brien
1992Hero as Robinson
1992Of Mice and Men as Carlson
1992Prelude to a Kiss as Jerry Blier
1991Fried Green Tomatoes as Reverend Scroggins
1991Keeper of the City as Capt. Sam Walden
1991Shadows and Fog as Roustabout
1991Home Improvement as Detective Roberts
1990Broken Badges
1990A Killer Among Us as Oscar Wendt
1990Ferris Bueller as Ed Rooney
1990People Like Us as Anthony Feliciano
1990Capital News
1990So Proudly We Hail as Davis
1989Glory as Quartermaster
1989Cast the First Stone as Dickson
1989Black Rain as Crown
1989Nasty Boys as Gardner
1989Quantum Leap as Lt. Lannon
1989Quantum Leap as Clifford Vargas
1989Rachel River as Merv
1987Star Trek: The Next Generation as Batai
1986L.A. Law as Leland McKenzie
1986L.A. Law as Edmund Clancy
1986L.A. Law as Roger Beekman
1985The Golden Girls as Detective Parres
1984Murder, She Wrote as Aaron
1984Murder, She Wrote as Sergeant Devon O'Malley
1981Falcon Crest as George Beeker
1978The Other Side of Hell as Tattooed Man
1977Joyride as Bartender
1971Columbo as Sergeant Degarmo
—Boris Is Dead as Hank
—Purgy's as Old Man
—Intern as CEO








