Personal Info
Birth date
1952-11-14 (72 Years)
Day of death
1993-06-11
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Also known as
-Ray Sharkey
Biography
Raymond Sharkey Jr. (November 14, 1952 – June 11, 1993) was an American stage, film and television actor. His most notable film role was Vincent Vacarri in the 1980 film The Idolmaker, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He is also known for his role as Sonny Steelgrave in the television series Wiseguy.
Filmography
Miami Vice
7.452
Overview:
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.All in the Family
7.836
Overview:
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.Faerie Tale Theatre
8.1
Overview:
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.The Equalizer
7.145
Overview:
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.Jake and the Fatman
6.12
Overview:
Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series.Barney Miller
7.311
Overview:
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.The Hitchhiker
6.226
Overview:
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.Crime Story
8
Overview:
The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.Kojak
7.004
Overview:
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.Wiseguy
6.5
Overview:
Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.The Jeffersons
7.326
Overview:
Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.The Streets of San Francisco
6.925
Overview:
Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.The Ray Bradbury Theater
6.838
Overview:
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.Paradise Alley
5.83
Overview:
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.No Mercy
5.83
Overview:
An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.Round Trip to Heaven
3.333
Overview:
Since Larry works at a garage, he gets to use one of the Rolls Royces. There is only one problem, there is a briefcase full of money in the trunk. So when Larry and his cousin Steve decide to go to Palm Springs to look for Ms. Right at a popular beauty pageant, the owner of the briefcase will do the impossible to get it back.Cop & ½
4.457
Overview:
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new partner seriously as they race the clock to bring the bad guys to justice.The Ordeal of Bill Carney
NYR
Overview:
Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons since his wife left him. Now, when word of his condition reaches her, she wants to take them away, as she feels that he is unable to care for them. And it appears that the courts agree too. So, his lawyer, also a paraplegic, begins the campaign to take his case before the Supreme Court. Will he win?Hellhole
4.9
Overview:
An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk’s only the beginning of her problems, since the asylum is run by a mad doctor, performing experiments in chemical lobotomies!The Rain Killer
4.364
Overview:
Together, a weary cop and an all business FBI agent, team up to catch the latest homicidal manic: The Rain Killer. Just when they think that all the clues have been washed away, they find the one last clue; the one that's been in plain sight.Caged Fear
3.833
Overview:
After a jewelry theft Tommy Lane can hardly free. His girlfriend Kristen has less luck and is arrested. She's sentenced to jail in an ill-reputed female prison in Oklahoma. Tommy doesn't let her down; he manages to get into the prison - on the other side of the bars - to force the ruthless director to let her go.In the Line of Duty: Street War
5
Overview:
In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New York cop. The detectives enlist the help of the dead cop's partner, who is also the brother of the gangster. There's nothing civil about this war that has two brothers squaring off against each other. The strong cast includes Mario Van Peebles, Ray Sharkey and Peter Boyle.Wise Guys
5.4
Overview:
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.Who'll Stop the Rain
6.478
Overview:
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
5.5
Overview:
A wealthy Beverly Hills resident who has just become a widow, Clare Lipkin temporarily takes on her friend Lisabeth as a house guest. As the two women deal with their upper-class woes, Clare's driver, Frank, and Lisabeth's servant, Juan, make a wager to see who can be the first to seduce the other's boss.The Cops Are Robbers
3
Overview:
Made-for-TV drama about one of the largest crimes in history—the 1980 robbery of the Boston Depositors Trust by a group of policemen. Capt. Gerry Clemente is the leader of a gang of rotten cops who take their piece of Boston's criminal offerings. The crimes are petty at first, but soon, Clemente sets his sights on a bank that promises a big score. Can the gang pull it off before a case is built against them?Stunts
5.25
Overview:
After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.Heart Beat
5.6
Overview:
An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.Willie & Phil
4.3
Overview:
Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of "Jules et Jim," Truffaut's classic film about a decades-long ménage à trois. Soon, the men meet Jeanette, a sexually liberated southern transplant who promptly falls for both of them. Frustrated passions curdle into jealousy as Jeanette entertains love affairs with each in the ensuing years.Acting
1993Cop & ½ as Vinnie Fountain
1992In the Line of Duty: Street War as Det. Victor Tomasino
1992Zebrahead as Richard
1992Round Trip to Heaven as Stoneface
1992Chrome Soldiers as Gabe Ricci
1992Dead On: Relentless II as Kyle Valsone
1991The Man in the Family (7 Episodes) as Unknown
1991Caged Fear as Warden Hayes
1990The Cops Are Robbers as Unknown
1990The Rain Killer as Capra
1990The Take as Dennis
199027 Wagons Full of Cotton as Silva
1989The Neon Empire as Junior Molov
1989The Neon Empire (2 Episodes) as Junior Molov
1989Wired as Angel Velasquez
1989Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills as Frank
1989The Revenge of Al Capone as Scarface
1988Act of Piracy as Jack Wilcox
1987Jake and the Fatman (1 Episode) as Unknown
1987Wiseguy: Pilot as Sonny Steelgrave
1987Wiseguy (7 Episodes) as Unknown
1987P.I. Private Investigations as Ryan
1986No Mercy as Angles Ryan
1986Crime Story (7 Episodes) as US Atty. Harry Breitel
1986Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp as Grand Vizier
1986Wise Guys as Marco
198592 Grosvenor Street as Unknown
1985The Equalizer (1 Episode) as Geoffery Dryden
1985The Ray Bradbury Theater (1 Episode) as Unknown
1985Hellhole as Silk
1984Body Rock as Terrence
1984Miami Vice (1 Episode) as Bobby Profile
1984Du-beat-e-o as duBEAT-e-o
1983The Hitchhiker (1 Episode) as Eric Coleman
1982Faerie Tale Theatre (1 Episode) as Grand Vizier
1982Some Kind of Hero as Sgt. Vinnie DiAngelo
1982Regina Roma as Carry
1981The Ordeal of Bill Carney as Bill Carney
1981Love and Money as Byron Levin
1980The Idolmaker as Vincent 'Vinnie' Vacarri
1980Willie & Phil as Phil D'Amico
1980Heart Beat as Ira (based on Allen Ginsberg)
1978Paradise Alley as Legs
1978Who'll Stop the Rain as Smitty
1977Stunts as Paul Salerno
1977Hot Tomorrows as Louis
1976Trackdown as Flash
1975Barney Miller (1, 1 Episode) as David Salas, Hold-Up Man
1975The Jeffersons (1 Episode) as Unknown
1973Kojak (1 Episode) as Gallagher (uncredited)
1972The Streets of San Francisco (1 Episode) as Unknown
1971All in the Family (1 Episode) as Man At Clinic (uncredited)