Ron Rich

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Ron Rich (born 1938 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actor who played the roles of football player Luther "Boom Boom" Jackson in the Billy Wilder comedy The Fortune Cookie (1966), Juno in the film Chubasco (1968) and Richie Lemoine in the TV series Mission Impossible, as well as being a writer and producer on Ghost Fever (1986).

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