Ron Vawter

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.

  • Popularity : 2.895
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1948-12-09
  • Place of Birth : Latham, New York, USA
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Ron Vawter Movies

  • 1991
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    The Silence of the Lambs

    The Silence of the Lambs

    8.347 1991 HD

    Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant...

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  • 1989
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    sex, lies, and videotape

    sex, lies, and videotape

    6.9 1989 HD

    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....

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  • 1989
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    Fat Man and Little Boy

    Fat Man and Little Boy

    6.221 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    Philadelphia

    Philadelphia

    7.7 1993 HD

    Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage...

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  • 1991
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    Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules

    Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules

    4 1991 HD

    Three short stories about women & men relationship.

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  • 1992
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    Buying a Landslide

    Buying a Landslide

    1 1992 HD

    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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  • 1991
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    Plymouth

    Plymouth

    4.667 1991 HD

    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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  • 1995
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    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

    1 1995 HD

    When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related...

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  • 1990
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    Made in Hollywood

    Made in Hollywood

    7 1990 HD

    Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of...

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  • 1996
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    Fresh Kill

    Fresh Kill

    5.4 1996 HD

    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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  • 1989
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    Volcano Saga

    Volcano Saga

    1 1989 HD

    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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  • 1992
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    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)

    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (Live Stage Recording)

    1 1992 HD

    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...

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  • 1987
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    Landscape Suicide

    Landscape Suicide

    7.5 1987 HD

    Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple...

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  • 1994
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    The Last Time I Saw Ron

    The Last Time I Saw Ron

    1 1994 HD

    Made in memory of the actor and my friend, Ron Vawter. Ron passed away shortly after the opening performances of the play "Philoktetes Variations,"...

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  • 1993
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    White Homeland Commando

    White Homeland Commando

    10 1993 HD

    White Homeland Commando takes the familiar terrain of network action drama and tilts the playing field. Reminiscent of today's popular reality-based...

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  • 1990
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    The Machine That Killed Bad People

    The Machine That Killed Bad People

    1 1990 HD

    The Machine That Killed Bad People is about the cultural and political history of the Philippines leading up to the overthrow of President Ferdinand...

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  • 2014
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    Rumstick Road

    Rumstick Road

    1 2014 HD

    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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  • 1987
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    Arena Brains

    Arena Brains

    5 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    Used Innocence

    Used Innocence

    5.8 1989 HD

    Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and controversial circumstances surrounding Lorencia...

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  • 1992
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    Mastergate

    Mastergate

    2 1992 HD

    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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  • 1992
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    Swoon

    Swoon

    5.804 1992 HD

    Teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into...

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  • 1993
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    Brace Up!

    Brace Up!

    10 1993 HD

    The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, with performances...

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  • 1991
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    Johnny Suede

    Johnny Suede

    5.2 1991 HD

    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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  • 1981
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    Strong Medicine

    Strong Medicine

    5.6 1981 HD

    Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday...

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  • 1977
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    Sudden Death

    Sudden Death

    8 1977 HD

    When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses,...

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  • 1983
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    Born in Flames

    Born in Flames

    6.2 1983 HD

    In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising...

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  • 1983
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    King Blank

    King Blank

    5 1983 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    Twister

    Twister

    5.5 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1990
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    Internal Affairs

    Internal Affairs

    6.3 1990 HD

    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...

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  • 1991
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    The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez

    The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez

    4.8 1991 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    King of the Hill

    King of the Hill

    6.8 1993 HD

    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...

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  • 1984
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    Atalanta Strategy

    Atalanta Strategy

    1 1984 HD

    The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.

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  • 1990
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    Postcards

    Postcards

    7 1990 HD

    A separated couple try to keep in touch through postcards of typically "American" sights: motels, monuments, parks; but their postcards cross in the...

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  • 1980
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    Empty Suitcases

    Empty Suitcases

    5.2 1980 HD

    Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of...

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  • 1970
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    Minus Zero

    Minus Zero

    1 1970 HD

    A psycho noir where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide.

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  • 1991
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    The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez

    The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez

    4.8 1991 HD

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  • 1988
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    American Experience

    American Experience

    7.5 1988 HD

    TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

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  • 1985
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    The Equalizer

    The Equalizer

    7.1 1985 HD

    Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself...

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