Ricco Ross

Last updated
Ricco Ross
Ricco Ross.jpg
Ross in 2016
Born
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Alma mater Florida Atlantic University
University of California, Los Angeles
OccupationActor
Years active1982present
SpouseJulie Shannon
Children2
Parent(s)Clarence Ross
Christine Ross

Ricco Ross is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of private Frost in the 1986 science fiction action film Aliens .

Contents

Early life

Born at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, he is the fifth of eight children, and in addition has three step sisters and another brother from his father's first marriage. He first acted in a high school production, majored in theater at a local community college, and entered Florida Atlantic University (FAU), where he was awarded a BA in Theater. He earned a scholarship to UCLA, where his career started to develop.

Career

Ross' first television role was as an extra on The Young and the Restless , which was followed by a small part in Hill Street Blues and the male lead in the music video for Whitney Houston's 1985 hit song "Saving All My Love for You". He later played Private Ricco Frost in the film Aliens (1986), and also appeared in the films Death Wish 3 (1985), Spies Like Us (1985), The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985 TV film), "Displaced Person" (1985 episode of American Playhouse ), Gulliver's Travels (1996), Mission Impossible (1996), Fierce Creatures (1997), Nate and the Colonel (2003) and Hydra (2009).

From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, he lived and worked in the United Kingdom. While there, he made guest appearances in Doctor Who (in the 1988 serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy ) and Jeeves and Wooster , and played a supporting role as CIA agent Karl Richfield in the 1991 mini-series Sleepers.

Ross now appears in various commercials as well as TV shows aired throughout the United States.

Aliens

Ricco Ross originally read for the part of Corporal Hicks. He was then offered the role of Private Drake, but he turned it down in favour of appearing in Full Metal Jacket . However, James Cameron was so impressed with Ross' audition that he wrote the character of Frost specifically for him, and as a result Ross left Kubrick's production to appear in Aliens. In a 2014 interview for the podcast "I Was There Too", Ross stated that Private Frost's first name is actually Robert.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1983 Scarred -
1985 The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission Arlen DregorsTV movie
Death Wish 3 The Cuban
Spies Like Us WAMP Guard
1986 Aliens Private Frost
1987 The Return of Sherlock Holmes MatthewTV movie
Body Contact Smiley
1988 Crusoe 2nd Victim
1989 Slipstream 1st Man at Table
Murder on the MoonAlvaradoTV movie
The Return of Sam McCloudRifkinTV movie
1992 Project Shadowchaser Jackson
1993Passport to MurderDealerTV movie
1995 Project Shadowchaser 3000 LennoxVideo
Hackers Second Reporter
ProteusBuckley
1996 Mission: Impossible Denied Area Security Guard
Timelock Tibuck
1997 Fierce Creatures TV Journalist
Wishmaster Lt. Nathanson
2000 Octopus Brickman
2002The Tower of BabbleClintShort
2003 Nate and the Colonel Nate Washington
2007Alls Well That Ends WellBilly ShakesShort
Santa CroceCrazed ProclaimerShort
2009 The Least Among You Marvin Kelly
HydraBroughtonTV movie
2011Apocalypse According to DorisBauer
2012 Hayabusa: Harukanaru Kikan Dr. Daniel Clark
Celestial GuardTornoShort
An Average American MarriageJeromeTV movie
PotluckMikeTV movie
2013Marriage of InconveniencePastorShort
ForeclosedDeputy DrewsVideo
Trane and MilesJohn ColtraneShort
You & MeDoctorShort
2014 Bermuda Tentacles Captain PhillipsTV movie
Whipping BoyNapalm's FatherShort
The New Jersey AmericansPlayer RiccoShort
Hidden in the Woods Ricco
2015Story of EvaDetective Grind
A Gifted AmateurDetective SavinoShort
Batgirl RisesThe RiddlerShort
Family TimesJasmine's DadShort
In Between the Gutter and the StarsTourist in LoveShort
StormageddonAgent TraversTV movie
2016 Opening Night Mr. Robertson
A Husband for ChristmasRoger BurkettTV movie'
The Hidden TollCommunity DirectorShort
2017CaptureDrewShort
Fat CampFred
The PossessedLouis Laveau
Bobbi Kristina Uncle RayTV movie
The SandmanDetective Price
My Christmas GrandpaJimShort
2018Where Branches BreakAbrahamShort
2019 Night Walk Saud
The Wrong Boy Next DoorPrincipal PerkinsTV movie
A Brother's HonorSheppard Granger
The Shinjuku FiveRonny Hayes
2020 She's in Portland Paul
TALIENS: Last StandSergeant John DavisShort
A Christmas for MaryDavidTV movie
2021Do SomethingDetective Dillon

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1982 Hill Street Blues Tyler BraggRecurring cast: season 2
1985 American Playhouse JacksonEpisode: "Displaced Person"
C.A.T.S. Eyes EdsomEpisode: "Love Byte"
1988 The Play on One LarryEpisode: "Airbase"
1988-89 Doctor Who RingmasterEpisode: "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy Part 1-4"
1989 The Bill Maxi SilverEpisode: "Duty Elsewhere"
CBS Summer Playhouse AlvinEpisode: "American Nuclear"
1991 Sleepers Karl RichfieldRecurring cast
Murder Most Horrid GaryEpisode: "Mrs Hat and Mrs Red"
1992 Jeeves and Wooster Liftman ConeybearRecurring cast: season 3
The Tomorrow People Sergeant YoungEpisode: "The Origin Story: Part 5"
1993 Westbeach Greg DacostaMain cast
Sitting Pretty Cliff MonahannEpisode: "Wills of Fire"
1996 Gulliver's Travels Brobdingnag ScientistEpisode: "Episode #1.1"
Highlander: The Series KassimEpisode: "Promises"
1997 JAG Secret Service #2Episode: "Washington Holiday"
Babylon 5 Captain FrankEpisode: "The Face of the Enemy"
The Pretender LarronEpisode: "Back from the Dead Again"
The Practice ReporterEpisode: "Reasonable Doubts" & "Hide and Seek"
1999 Beverly Hills, 90210 Miles CaufieldEpisode: "Agony"
2000 Days of Our Lives Reggie MorrisEpisode: "Episode #1.8729"
2006 ER BarnardEpisode: "Scoop and Run"
2012Bite MeBarnardMain cast: season 2
2014CaperPsychoRecurring cast
Family Time -Episode: "Powering Down"
MatchDetective PurcellEpisode: "Secret Lives"
2015EscortsCharles Stone Sr.Recurring cast
2016 K.C. Undercover PreacherEpisode: "The Love Jinx"
2019 No Good Nick Walter StricklandEpisode: "The Pigeon Drop"
2020-22 P-Valley Pastor R. J. GilfieldRecurring cast: season 1, guest: season 2
TBA Beauty in Black HoraceSeries regular

Music Video

YearTitleArtistRole
1985 Saving All My Love for You Whitney Houston Producer / Lover


Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roddy McDowall</span> British actor (1928–1998)

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall was a British and American actor, whose career spanned over 270 screen and stage roles across over 60 years. Born in London, he began his acting career as a child in his native England, before moving to the United States at the outbreak of World War II. He achieved prominence for his starring roles in How Green Was My Valley (1941), My Friend Flicka (1943), and Lassie Come Home (1943). Unlike many of his contemporaries, McDowall managed to transition his child stardom into adulthood, and began to appear on Broadway as well as in films, winning a Tony Award for his performance in Jean Anouilh's The Fighting Cock. For portraying Octavian in the historical epic Cleopatra (1963), he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ray Walston</span> American actor and comedian (1914–2001)

Herman Raymond Walston was an American actor and comedian. Walston started his career on Broadway earning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees (1956).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Reiser</span> American actor

Paul Reiser is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He played the roles of Michael Taylor in the 1980s sitcom My Two Dads, Paul Buchman in the NBC sitcom Mad About You, Modell in the 1982 film Diner, Carter Burke in the 1986 film Aliens, and Detective Jeffrey Friedman in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024). More recently, he has gained recognition for his roles as Jim Neiman in the 2014 film Whiplash and Dr. Sam Owens in the Netflix series Stranger Things.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Len Cariou</span> Canadian actor and stage director (born 1939)

Leonard Joseph Cariou is a Canadian stage actor, singer and stage director. He gained prominence for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979) alongside Angela Lansbury for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He also received Tony nominations for his roles in the Betty Comden and Adolph Green musical Applause (1970), and the Sondheim musical A Little Night Music (1973).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lance Henriksen</span> American actor

Lance Henriksen is an American actor. He is known for his works in various science fiction, action and horror films, such as that of Bishop in the Alien film franchise, and Frank Black in Fox television series Millennium (1996–1999) and The X-Files (1999). He has also done extensive voice work, as Kerchak the gorilla in the 1999 Disney film Tarzan (1999), General Shepherd in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) and Fleet Admiral Steven Hackett in BioWare's Mass Effect video game trilogy (2007–2012). He also appeared as Hal Vukovich in The Terminator (1984), Ed Harley in the cult horror film Pumpkinhead (1988), Chains Cooper in Stone Cold (1991), and Emil Fouchon in Hard Target (1993).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Shaughnessy</span> British actor

Charles George Patrick Shaughnessy, 5th Baron Shaughnessy is a British actor. His roles on American television include Shane Donovan on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, Maxwell Sheffield on the sitcom The Nanny, and the voice of Dennis the Goldfish on Stanley for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award. He had recurring roles as Christopher Plover on The Magicians and St. John Powell on Mad Men. Shaughnessy is a series regular on ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital in the role of villain Victor Cassadine; he signed a long-term contract to remain part of the show indefinitely.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tom Skerritt</span> American actor (born 1933)

Thomas Roy Skerritt is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes since 1962. He is known for his film roles in M*A*S*H, Alien, The Dead Zone, Top Gun, A River Runs Through It, Poltergeist III, and Up in Smoke, and the television series Picket Fences and Cheers. Skerritt has earned several nominations and awards, including winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for Picket Fences.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eugene Roche</span> American actor (1928–2004)

Eugene Harrison Roche was an American actor and the original "Ajax Man" in 1970s television commercials.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Conrad</span> American actor (1935–2020)

Robert Conrad was an American film and television actor, singer, and stuntman. He is best known for his role in the 1965–1969 television series The Wild Wild West, playing the sophisticated Secret Service agent James T. West. He portrayed World War II ace Pappy Boyington in the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep. In addition to acting, he was a singer and recorded several pop/rock songs in the late 1950s and early 1960s as Bob Conrad. He hosted a weekly two-hour national radio show on CRN Digital Talk Radio beginning in 2008.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard Benjamin</span> American actor and film director

Richard Samuel Benjamin is an American actor and film director. He has starred in a number of well-known films, including Goodbye, Columbus (1969), Catch-22 (1970), Portnoy's Complaint (1972), Westworld (1973), The Last of Sheila (1973), and The Sunshine Boys (1975), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. Benjamin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his performances in He & She (1968), opposite his wife Paula Prentiss.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Katt</span> American actor and musician (born 1951)

William Theodore Katt is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his starring role as Ralph Hinkley/Hanley on the ABC television series The Greatest American Hero (1981–83).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Windom (actor)</span> American actor (1923–2012)

William Windom was an American actor. He was known as a character actor of the stage and screen. He is well known for his recurring role as Dr. Seth Hazlitt alongside Angela Lansbury in the CBS mystery series Murder, She Wrote.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vince Edwards</span> American actor (1928–1996)

Vince Edwards was an American actor, director, and singer. He was best known for his TV role as Dr. Ben Casey and as Major Cliff Bricker in the 1968 war film The Devil's Brigade.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ralph Brown</span> English actor

Ralph William John Brown is an English actor and writer, known for playing Danny the drug dealer in Withnail and I, the security guard Aaron in Alien 3, DJ Bob Silver in The Boat That Rocked aka Pirate Radio, super-roadie Del Preston in Wayne's World 2, the pilot Ric Olié in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and Henry Clinton in Turn: Washington's Spies. He won the Samuel Beckett Award for his first play Sanctuary written for Joint Stock Theatre Company in 1987, and the Raindance and Sapporo Film Festival awards for his first screenplay for the British film New Year's Day in 2001.

Brent Carver was a Canadian actor best known internationally for performances in both London's West End and on Broadway in Kiss of the Spider Woman as Molina, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical in 1993 and was nominated for an Olivier Award. A subsequent Broadway appearance in 1999 in Parade as Leo Frank, led to a second nomination for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical.

Leonard Harold Von Dohlen IV was an American television, film, and stage actor. With a 40-year career that primarily featured work in independent films and guest appearances on numerous prominent series, he was probably best known for his performance as architect Miles Harding in the film Electric Dreams (1984), the title role as a steelworker's son opposite Karl Malden in Billy Galvin (1986), and as the orchid-loving agoraphobe Harold Smith in the television series Twin Peaks and its prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

Joel Fabiani is an American film, television and theater actor. Known for his leading role in the British TV series Department S, Fabiani has guest starred in The FBI, Barnaby Jones, The Streets of San Francisco, Banacek, Cannon, The Rockford Files and Starsky and Hutch.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jeff Wincott</span> Canadian actor (born 1956)

Jeffrey Wincott is a Canadian actor and martial artist best known for his lead role in the television series Night Heat.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">D. W. Moffett</span> American actor

Donald Warren Moffett is an American film, stage, and television actor. Moffett began his career in stage productions in Chicago before starring in the original New York City production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart in 1985. He subsequently starred in a Broadway production of The Boys of Winter the same year. He made his feature film debut in Bob Rafelson's thriller Black Widow (1987) before portraying a serial killer in the thriller Lisa (1990).

Lee Ross is an English actor known for his roles as Kenny Phillips in the CITV dramedy Press Gang and as Owen Turner in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He is also known for his work in the drama series Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest, Secrets & Lies, The Catherine Tate Show and BBC sitcom White Gold.