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Ralph Foody
Actor 1928 - 1999

Ralph Foody

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Ralph Wesley Foody was an American character actor. He has several screen credits from the 1980s, but is probably best known for his bit part in the 1990 film Home Alone and its 1992 sequel as a stereotypical 1930s mobster "Johnny" in two black-and-white gangster... Read full bio →

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13 titles
Straight Talk

Straight Talk

Barnet Kellman 1992 1h 31m 6.0

Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Chris Columbus 1992 2h 6.3

Lost in New York is the sequel to the blockbuster Home Alone. This time young Kevin is left alone in New York during a family vacation and once again he is confronted by the bandits who tried to rob him in the first film.

Curly Sue

Curly Sue

John Hughes 1991 1h 41m 1.0

Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue. Bill and Curly Sue target Grey, a yuppie lawyer, but their con takes an unexpected turn when the successful woman begins to like the ramshackle duo.

Home Alone

Home Alone

Chris Columbus 1990 1h 43m 7.3

Home Alone is the successful family comedy with young superstar Macaulay Culkin. A young boy named Kevin is forgotten at home when his family takes a winter vacation. Kevin is not only alone but must fend for himself as two burglars attempt to rob his house.

The Package

The Package

Andrew Davis 1989 1h 48m 5.3

Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.

Music Box

Music Box

Costa-Gavras 1989 2h 4m 7.6

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

Vice Versa

Vice Versa

Brian Gilbert 1988 1h 38m 5.0

A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.

Betrayed

Betrayed

Costa-Gavras 1988 2h 7m 6.0

An FBI agent (Debra Winger) falls in love with a white supremacist (Tom Berenger) whose group she infiltrates.

Above the Law

Above the Law

Andrew Davis 1988 1h 39m 5.1

Seagal is Nico Toscani, an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist, and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice: expert and thorough bone-crushing.

Raw Deal

Raw Deal

John Irvin 1986 1h 46m 5.4

Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down.

Code of Silence

Code of Silence

Andrew Davis 1985 1h 41m 5.5

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

The Blues Brothers

The Blues Brothers

John Landis 1980 2h 13m 8.6

Direct out of jail, Jake Blues and his Brother Elwood are off on a “mission from god” to raise funds for the orphanage in which they grew up. The only thing they can do is do what they do best: play music. So they get their old band together and they're on their way yet not without getting in a bit of trouble here and there.

Mickey One

Mickey One

Arthur Penn 1965 1h 33m 6.5

A former comic is on the run from the mob.

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