Ray Sharkey

Ray Sharkey

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.

  • Title: Ray Sharkey
  • Popularity: 5.368
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1952-11-14
  • Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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Ray Sharkey Movies

  • 1986
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    Wise Guys

    Wise Guys

    5.3 1986 HD

    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...

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  • 1978
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    Who'll Stop the Rain

    Who'll Stop the Rain

    6.5 1978 HD

    John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs...

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  • 1993
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    Cop and ½

    Cop and ½

    4.5 1993 HD

    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,...

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  • 1985
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    Hellhole

    Hellhole

    5 1985 HD

    An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia....

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  • 1984
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    Du-beat-e-o

    Du-beat-e-o

    1 1984 HD

    A filmmaker tries to finish editing a movie about all-girl rock band Runaways.

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  • 1980
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    The Idolmaker

    The Idolmaker

    5.4 1980 HD

    Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

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  • 1988
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    Act of Piracy

    Act of Piracy

    3.9 1988 HD

    A large motor yacht becomes the focal point in this action tale when a group of mercenaries decide to capture the vessel. The original owner, who was...

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  • 1982
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    Some Kind of Hero

    Some Kind of Hero

    5.5 1982 HD

    A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in...

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  • 1981
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    Love and Money

    Love and Money

    5.3 1981 HD

    An investment planner, bored with his job and his girlfriend, is given the opportunity to help open a new firm in South America. Once in the new...

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  • 1984
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    Body Rock

    Body Rock

    3.4 1984 HD

    A disco owner lures a New York breakdancer away from his rapping and dancing friends.

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  • 1977
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    Stunts

    Stunts

    5.1 1977 HD

    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.

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  • 1990
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    The Rain Killer

    The Rain Killer

    4.3 1990 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    Hot Tomorrows

    Hot Tomorrows

    6 1977 HD

    A portrait of a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-size Grim Reaper. One night Michael's closest...

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  • 1980
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    Willie and Phil

    Willie and Phil

    4.4 1980 HD

    Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking...

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  • 1989
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    Wired

    Wired

    3.4 1989 HD

    The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career.

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  • 1987
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    P.I. Private Investigations

    P.I. Private Investigations

    4.8 1987 HD

    A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.

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  • 1978
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    Paradise Alley

    Paradise Alley

    5.8 1978 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    The Revenge of Al Capone

    The Revenge of Al Capone

    5.7 1989 HD

    After Al Capone is imprisoned, he still continues to run his empire, and plots to assassinate the mayor of Chicago.

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  • 1982
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    Regina Roma

    Regina Roma

    1 1982 HD

    An aging couple search for peace and family harmony when their only son returns home after a long absence with his fiancee.

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  • 1992
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    Chrome Soldiers

    Chrome Soldiers

    4.7 1992 HD

    Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother.

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  • 1989
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    The Neon Empire

    The Neon Empire

    1 1989 HD

    New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.

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  • 1990
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    The Take

    The Take

    1 1990 HD

    An ex-Miami cop just back from prison for corruption gets caught up in the Florida drug trade.

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  • 1990
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    27 Wagons Full of Cotton

    27 Wagons Full of Cotton

    6 1990 HD

    In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ablaze. the superintendent of the Syndicate...

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  • 1991
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    Caged Fear

    Caged Fear

    3.2 1991 HD

    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...

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  • 1981
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    The Ordeal of Bill Carney

    The Ordeal of Bill Carney

    1 1981 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

    Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

    5.6 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1987
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    Wiseguy: Pilot

    Wiseguy: Pilot

    1 1987 HD

    This was the feature-length pilot for the hit series. Vinnie Terranova, a Justice Department agent reassigned to the Organized Crime Bureau as a...

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  • 1992
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    Round Trip to Heaven

    Round Trip to Heaven

    3.8 1992 HD

    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...

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  • 1992
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    Dead On: Relentless II

    Dead On: Relentless II

    5.4 1992 HD

    Detective Sam Dietz is paired with a shady FBI agent to track down another serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles.

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  • 1992
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    Zebrahead

    Zebrahead

    5.5 1992 HD

    Interracial love story set in Detroit.

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  • 1980
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    Heart Beat

    Heart Beat

    5.6 1980 HD

    An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.

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  • 1992
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    In the Line of Duty: Street War

    In the Line of Duty: Street War

    5 1992 HD

    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...

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  • 1990
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    The Cops Are Robbers

    The Cops Are Robbers

    4 1990 HD

    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....

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  • 1986
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    Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp

    Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp

    6 1986 HD

    Based on the story "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp", directed by Tim Burton and starring Robert Carradine.

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  • 1985
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    92 Grosvenor Street

    92 Grosvenor Street

    1 1985 HD

    Professor-turned-spy Col. Calvin Turner and his associate, workaholic Lt. Shelley Flynn, plan a daring rescue behind enemy lines in World War II...

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  • 1986
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    No Mercy

    No Mercy

    5.8 1986 HD

    An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.

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  • 1984
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    Miami Vice

    Miami Vice

    7.467 1984 HD

    The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership...

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  • 1971
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    All in the Family

    All in the Family

    7.8 1971 HD

    Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.

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  • 1975
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    The Jeffersons

    The Jeffersons

    7.299 1975 HD

    Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from...

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  • 1972
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    The Streets of San Francisco

    The Streets of San Francisco

    7 1972 HD

    Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone...

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  • 1975
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    Barney Miller

    Barney Miller

    7.3 1975 HD

    Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was...

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  • 1973
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    Kojak

    Kojak

    6.9 1973 HD

    A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

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  • 1985
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    The Equalizer

    The Equalizer

    7.1 1985 HD

    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...

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  • 1987
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    Jake and the Fatman

    Jake and the Fatman

    5.9 1987 HD

    Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake...

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  • 1985
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    The Ray Bradbury Theater

    The Ray Bradbury Theater

    6.9 1985 HD

    A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon...

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  • 1987
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    Wiseguy

    Wiseguy

    6.5 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 1983
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    The Hitchhiker

    The Hitchhiker

    6.1 1983 HD

    A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody...

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  • 1982
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    Faerie Tale Theatre

    Faerie Tale Theatre

    8.421 1982 HD

    A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.

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  • 1991
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    The Man in the Family

    The Man in the Family

    6 1991 HD

    The Man in the Family is an American sitcom television series that aired from June 19 until July 31, 1991.

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  • 1989
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    The Neon Empire

    The Neon Empire

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1986
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    Crime Story

    Crime Story

    8 1986 HD

    The hard-boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Lieutenant Mike Torello and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca.

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  • 1975
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    Barney Miller

    Barney Miller

    7.3 1975 HD

    Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was...

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