Ron Vawter
Ron Vawter (December 9, 1948 – April 16, 1994) was an American actor and a founding member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group. Vawter performed in most of the group's works until his death from a heart attack in 1994 at the age of 45.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 11.15 |
| Birthday | 1948-12-09 |
| Place of Birth | Latham, New York, USA |
| Also Known As |
1991
The Silence of the Lambs
8.3/15879
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatri...
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The Silence of the Lambs
1989
sex, lies, and videotape
7/867
Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. W...
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sex, lies, and videotape
1993
Philadelphia
7.726/4124
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes...
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Philadelphia
1989
Fat Man and Little Boy
6.217/138
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan...
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Fat Man and Little Boy
1991
Plymouth
5.5/2
The residents of a town displaced by an industrial accident agree to take over a failing mining base on the Moon as their new place to live and work....
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Plymouth
1990
Made in Hollywood
7/2
Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of televisio...
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Made in Hollywood
1989
Volcano Saga
0/0
This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman...
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Volcano Saga
1994
The Last Time I Saw Ron
0/0
Made in memory of the actor and my friend, Ron Vawter. Ron passed away shortly after the opening performances of the play "Philoktetes Variations," di...
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The Last Time I Saw Ron
1995
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
0/0
When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related deaths was...
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Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
1990
The Machine That Killed Bad People
0/0
The Machine That Killed Bad People is about the cultural and political history of the Philippines leading up to the overthrow of President Ferdinand M...
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The Machine That Killed Bad People
1993
White Homeland Commando
10/3
White Homeland Commando takes the familiar terrain of network action drama and tilts the playing field. Reminiscent of today's popular reality-based c...
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White Homeland Commando
2014
Rumstick Road
0/0
A video reconstruction of the 1977 Wooster Group production Rumstick Road, an experimental theater performance created by Spalding Gray and Elizabeth...
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Rumstick Road
1987
Arena Brains
5/2
A short film by painter-turned-filmmaker Robert Longo, "Arena Brains" is a series of interlocking vignettes set in and around the art world of 1980s N...
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Arena Brains
1989
Used Innocence
5.8/4
Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and controversial circumstances surrounding Lorencia Bemb...
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Used Innocence
1992
Mastergate
2/1
A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate...
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Mastergate
1992
Swoon
5.8/27
Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefr...
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Swoon
1993
Brace Up!
10/1
The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, with performances from...
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Brace Up!
1991
Johnny Suede
5.195/64
A struggling young musician and devoted fan of Ricky Nelson wants to be just like his idol and become a rock star.
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Johnny Suede
1981
Strong Medicine
5.6/5
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday par...
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Strong Medicine
1990
Internal Affairs
6.276/372
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the a...
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Internal Affairs
1983
Born in Flames
6.067/52
In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality r...
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Born in Flames
1983
King Blank
5/1
Set in a motel room at NYC's Kennedy Airport, the film treats two days in the life of a deadbeat couple, an obsessive husband lost in a web of psychot...
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King Blank
1991
The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
4.8/6
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat who...
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The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
1989
Twister
5.7/34
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is...
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Twister
1993
King of the Hill
6.8/148
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a h...
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King of the Hill
1977
Sudden Death
8/1
When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses, but...
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Sudden Death
1984
Atalanta Strategy
0/0
The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.
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Atalanta Strategy
1990
Postcards
7/2
A separated couple try to keep in touch through postcards of typically "American" sights: motels, monuments, parks; but their postcards cross in the m...
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Postcards
1980
Empty Suitcases
5/5
Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of representation a...
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Empty Suitcases
Minus Zero
0/0
A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide.
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Minus Zero
1991
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
4/6
Three short stories about women & men relationship.
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Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
1996
Fresh Kill
5.4/10
Shareen and Claire, a lesbian couple living on Staten Island, find themselves ensnared in a vast conspiracy involving a ghost ship of nuclear refuse,...
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Fresh Kill
1992
Buying a Landslide
0/0
Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky...
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Buying a Landslide
1992
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)
0/0
Recorded during the initial run of the Obie Award-winning ROY COHN/JACK SMITH, this video documents the seminal performance piece as it was first seen...
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Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)
1987
Landscape Suicide
7.5/23
Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple murderer...
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