Sy Richardson
Sy Richardson
Biography
​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Sy Richardson is an American film and television actor.Richardson made his film debut as the Fairy Godmother, in the 1977 American erotic musical comedy Cinderella. He is perhaps best known as a regular in the films of Alex Cox, having appeared in Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Walker, The Winner and Searchers 2.0. He played "Turbo" in the 1990 film Tripwire. He recently had a recurring role as the coroner on the TV series Pushing Daisies. He is also in They Live and played a tough L.A. County Sherrif in the gang classic Colors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sy Richardson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
69
Gender
Male
Birthday
1941-06-04 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Acting

2023

It Wants Blood 2 as Professor Smert

2019

Family Reunion as Brother Franklin

2019

5th of July as Pops

2017

Message From a Mistress as Mr. Hall

2015

Documentary Now! as David

2011

Larry Crowne as Avery

2010

Rizzoli & Isles as Sour Grapes

2010

Our Family Wedding as Sonny

2010

A Numbers Game as Bernie

2010

Hip-Hop Headstrong as The Bishop

2008

South of Heaven as Pawn Daddy

2007

Pushing Daisies as Coroner

2007

All About Us as Willie Earl

2007

Searchers 2.0 as Fritz Frobisher

2007

Lord Help Us as Church Member

2004

Surviving Christmas as Doo-Dah Understudy

2003

L.A. County 187 as Leotis Brown

2002

Monk as Sanitation Worker

2002

Monk as Janitor

2002

The Shield as Brother William

2001

Human Nature as Police Detective

2001

Extreme Honor as Schultz

2000

The Playaz Court as Louie

1999

Heat Vision and Jack as Doctor

1999

Mr. P's Dancing Sushi Bar as Not available

1998

Charmed as Father Wilkins

1998

Shattered Illusions as Gene

1998

Erasable You as Miliatant

1996

Evil Obsession as Jim

1994

ER as Coleman

1994

Floundering as Commander K

1994

The Glass Shield as Mr. Taylor

1993

Posse as Shepherd

1992

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper as Mr. Gooding

1992

Martin as Not available

1990

Wings as Luther

1990

The Grifters as Cab Driver (uncredited)

1990

Men at Work as Walt Richardson

1990

Catchfire as Capt. Walker

1990

To Sleep with Anger as Marsh

1990

Street Asylum as Sgt. 'Joker' Tatum

1989

Mystery Train as Newsvendor

1989

Three Fugitives as Tucker

1989

Tripwire as Turbo

1988

They Live as Black Revolutionary

1988

Colors as Bailey

1988

Bad Dreams as Detective Wasserman

1988

Tapeheads as Bartender

1988

Dead Man Walking as Snake

1987

Walker as Captain Hornsby

1987

Straight to Hell as Norwood

1987

Cold Steel as Rashid

1987

Medium Rare as Marv

1986

Sid and Nancy as Methadone Caseworker

1984

Repo Man as Lite

1983

My Brother's Wedding as Mr. Dubois

1982

Cheers as Gordon

1981

Falcon Crest as Detective Olen

1979

Nocturna as RH Factor

1978

Fairy Tales as Sirus

1977

Cinderella as Fairy Godmother

NaN

Young & Naive as Self

1977

Petey Wheatstraw as Petey's Father
Crew

1993

Posse Writer