| Richard Tyson | |
| Birth Name: | Richard Martin Tyson |
| Birth Place: | Mobile, Alabama, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Yearsactive: | 1986–present |
| Spouse: | Tracy Kristofferson (m. July 1996; div. 2017)[1] [2] |
| Children: | 1 |
Richard Tyson (born)[4] is an American actor. He is best known as Kaz in Hardball (1989–1990) as well as his film roles in Three O'Clock High (1987), Two Moon Junction (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Bound to Vengeance (2015), and Playing with Dolls (2015).
Tyson was born in Mobile, Alabama.[5] His brother John was the district attorney of Mobile County, and was later the Democratic Party nominee for attorney general of Alabama in 2006.[6]
Tyson starred in Three O'Clock High, Kindergarten Cop and three films directed by the Farrelly brothers. He starred in the television series Hardball. His roles in the 2000s included The Fear Chamber, Richard III, Flight of the Living Dead, No Bad Days and the western Shoot First and Pray You Live. He starred in the horror film Big Bad Wolf in which he is accused by his stepson of being a cruel and vicious werewolf.
Tyson played a former football star who owned the eponymous town in Jake's Corner. He guest-starred in , Boomtown and Martial Law. His other film appearances include The Visitation, Liar's Poker and Black Hawk Down. Tyson played Genghis Khan in an unfinished film of the same name, which was originally scheduled for release in 1992.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Three O'Clock High | Buddy Revell | film debut | |
| 1988 | Two Moon Junction | Perry Tyson | ||
| 1990 | Kindergarten Cop | Cullen Crisp Sr. | ||
| 1992 | Lakota Moon | Smoke | television movie | |
| The Babe | Guy Bush | |||
| Genghis Khan | Genghis Khan | unfinished | ||
| 1993 | Dark Tide | Dak | ||
| 1995 | Pharaoh's Army | Rodie | ||
| 1996 | Time Under Fire | Koda | ||
| Kingpin | strip club bouncer | |||
| The Glass Cage | Paul Yaeger | |||
| 1998 | Implicated | Carl | ||
| There's Something About Mary | Detective Krevoy | |||
| The Pandora Project | Captain William Stenwick | |||
| 1999 | Desert Thunder | Ralph Streets | ||
| Liar's Poker | Jack | |||
| 2000 | Operation Sandman | Gunnery Sergeant Riggins | television movie | |
| Battlefield Earth | Robert the Fox | |||
| Me, Myself & Irene | Gun Shop Owner | |||
| 2001 | Dying on the Edge | |||
| Firetrap | Paul Brody | |||
| Monsoon | ||||
| Black Hawk Down | Busch | |||
| 2002 | Psychic Murders | David | ||
| Cottonmouth | Thomas Carruth | |||
| 2004 | Crusader | |||
| Last Flight Out | Dan | |||
| The Trail to Hope Rose | Gerald Ruthledge | |||
| Moscow Heat | Nikolay Klimov | |||
| 2005 | Yesterday's Dreams | Jake | ||
| Lonesome Matador | ||||
| 2006 | Naked Run | Lancer Higgins | ||
| The Visitation | Sheriff Brett Henchle | |||
| When I Find the Ocean | Dean | |||
| Big Bad Wolf | Mitchell Toblat | |||
| 2007 | Paul Judd | |||
| The Dukes | Ralph | |||
| Stripper Academy | Mr. VIP | |||
| Becoming | ||||
| 2008 | Richard III | Duke of Clarence | ||
| Jake's Corner | Johhny Dunn | |||
| 3 Days Gone | Agent Markowitz | |||
| No Bad Days | Robert | |||
| Shoot First and Pray You Live (Because Luck Has Nothing to Do with It) | Black Gandil Morgan | |||
| 2009 | The Moonlighters | Tubbs | ||
| The Fear Chamber | Teddy | |||
| Bigfoot | David Caldwell | |||
| The Black Waters of Echo's Pond | Nicholas | |||
| Magic Man | Detective Rogers | |||
| Dark Room Theater | Officer Carlson | |||
| Inner City Snow | Captain Hankie | |||
| 2010 | Once Fallen | Keys | ||
| Creative Differences | ||||
| Double Tap | Captain Spears | |||
| Sin-Jin Smyth | unreleased | |||
| 2011 | You! | Charles Martin | ||
| The Story of Bonnie and Clyde | ||||
| Not Another Not Another Movie | ||||
| 2012 | Hayride [7] | Morgan | ||
| 2014 | Ghost of Goodnight Lane | Ron | ||
| 2015 | Bound to Vengeance | Phil | ||
| Another Turn in the Sun | Sergeant Wade | |||
| Playing with Dolls | The Watcher / Scopophilio | |||
| Hayride 2[8] | Morgan | |||
| 2016 | Boonville Redemption | Maddox | ||
| The Perfect Weapon | Controller | |||
| The Watcher / Scopophilio | ||||
| 2018 | Death Kiss | Tyrell | ||
| 2019 | Night Walk | John |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Moonlighting | Daniel | 1 episode |
| 1988 | Disneyland | Lute Newhouser | |
| 1989 | China Beach | Cpl. Whitlow | 1 episode |
| 1989–1990 | Hardball | Joe "Kaz" Kaczierowski | 18 episodes |
| 1992 | Red Shoe Diaries | Bud | 1 episode |
| 1994 | Winnetka Road | Dwayne Serlin | 5 episodes |
| Dead at 21 | Cali | 1 episode | |
| Christy | Billy Long | 1 episode | |
| 1997 | The Sentinel | Frank Rafferty | 1 episode |
| 1998 | Buddy Faro | 1 episode | |
| 2000 | Martial Law | ||
| 2003 | Black Sash | Arnold Brady | |
| Boomtown | Frank Needham | 1 episode | |
| 2006 | Frank Russo | 1 episode | |
| 2009 | The Closer | Ted | 1 episode |