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  • Eldard packs on the pounds to play rotund roadie - 26 April 2011
    -Black Hawk Down star Ron Eldard packed on 20 pounds (nine kilograms) in just two weeks to play a roadie in his latest movie.-The film star packed on a total of 38 pounds (17 kilograms) while making Roadie - and he was amazed how easy it was to get fat.- He tells W

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  • House Of Sand And Fog
  • House Of Sand And Fog review by from Chelmsford, Essex
    Rated - 3.0 stars A powerful human story 8 July 2005
    ... and Esmail, a mother and son role that they were to repeat in 24 series four. Ron Eldard plays Lester, a sympathetic cop who oversteps his powers in trying to help Kath...   Read customer review

Ron Eldard - filmography


  • Super 8 on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Elle Fanning,  Amanda Michalka,  Kyle Chandler
    Director: J.J. Abrams
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    From J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg... In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 20,561 members
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  • Super 8 - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Elle Fanning,  Amanda Michalka,  Kyle Chandler
    Director: J.J. Abrams
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    From J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg... In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 9,853 members
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  • Roadie (2011)
    Starring: Lois Smith,  David Margulies,  Bobby Cannavale
    Director: Michael Cuesta
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    After a 45-year-old roadie gets dumped by his band, he returns home to Queens, sees his aged mother for the first time since his father's funeral, and finds that even though his neighborhood has become a slum, everywhere he goes there are remnants of the neighborhood he grew up in.
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 2 members
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  • Already Dead on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Patrick Kilpatrick,  Christopher Plummer,  Marisa Coughlan
    Director: Joe Otting
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ron Eldard (Black Hawk Down) stars with Christopher Plummer in this story of revenge. Thomas Archer (Eldard) is living the good life as a star architect and happily married family man until a tragic night robs him of what he loves most. Suddenly transformed by the pain and need for vengeance, he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 103 members
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  • Freedomland - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Samuel L. Jackson,  Julianne Moore,  Edie Falco
    Director: Joe Roth
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A carjacking-turned-kidnapping provides the set-up for a complex story of racial and class divide, as black detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) attempts to uncover the truth in victim Brenda Martin's story. Bleeding and dazed in an inner city ER, Brenda (Julianne Moore) explains that on ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 654 members
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  • Freedomland on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Samuel L. Jackson,  Julianne Moore,  Edie Falco
    Director: Joe Roth
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Samuel L. Jackson plays Lorenzo Council, a veteran police detective who is assigned the case of Brenda Martin, a woman from a neighbouring town who claims to have been carjacked...
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 7,272 members
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  • House Of Sand And Fog on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jennifer Connelly,  Ben Kingsley,  Ron Eldard
    Director: Vadim Perelman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly star in the powerful drama HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG as two people fighting over the same house. Connelly is Kathy, a troubled young woman struggling with addiction and her husband's departure. Lost in druggy daze, she fails to check her mail, which includes letters ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 13,203 members
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  • Ghost Ship - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Gabriel Byrne,  Julianna Margulies,  Ron Eldard
    Director: Steve Beck
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    In the midst of a 1962 pleasure cruise, the passengers and crew of Italian luxury liner the Antonia Graza are systematically slaughtered and left in pieces by a gang of terrorists. Forty years later, the ship is spotted drifting in the Bering sea. Fresh off a six-month journey, an Alaska-based ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 769 members
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  • Ghost Ship on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Gabriel Byrne,  Julianna Margulies,  Ron Eldard
    Director: Steve Beck
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    In a remote region of Bering Sea, a boat salvage crew discovers the eerie remains of a grand passenger line thought lost for more than 40 years. Once on-board, the crew must confront the ship's horrific past and face the ultimate fight for their lives, as mysterious things begin to happen aboard ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 13,036 members
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  • Just A Kiss on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Ron Eldard,  Kyra Sedgwick,  Marisa Tomei
    Director: Fisher Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Directed by Fisher Stevens with a sharply witty script from writer Patrick Breen, who also stars as the film's antihero, Pete, JUST A KISS is a smart, hip black comedy with an energetic soundtrack, a sexy cast, and expert use of digital animation. The first scenes, while the credits are still ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 243 members
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  • Black Hawk Down - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Kim Coates,  Gabriel Casseus
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    On October 3, 1993, Army Rangers and members of the elite Delta Force participated in a covert operation in Mogadishu, Somalia that went horribly wrong. Sent to abduct two lieutenants of a vicious Somali warlord, the soldiers found themselves surrounded by hostile militia. Two Black Hawk ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 5,406 members
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  • Black Hawk Down on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Kim Coates,  Gabriel Casseus
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    On October 3, 1993, Army Rangers and members of the elite Delta Force participated in a covert operation in Mogadishu, Somalia that went horribly wrong. Sent to abduct two lieutenants of a vicious Somali warlord, the soldiers found themselves surrounded by hostile militia. Two Black Hawk ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 30,335 members
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  • The Runner on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Ron Eldard,  Courteney Cox,  John Goodman
    Director: Ron Moler
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A young man who is addicted to gambling has a large debt to pay off. His uncle gets him a job as a 'runner' who places bets with bookies and for the best part of the time he behaves himself. Unfortunately he wants to buy a ring for his girlfirend and his boss' money looks very tempting...
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 83 members
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  • Mystery Alaska on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Russell Crowe,  Hank Azaria,  Mary McCormack
    Director: Jay Roach
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hot stars Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander) and Burt Reynolds (Striptease, Boogie Nights) team up with an impressive cast to score big laughs in this offbeat sexy comedy. The hockey-loving village of Mystery, Alaska may look cold from the outside, but behind closed doors are ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 888 members
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  • When Trumpets Fade on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ron Eldard,  Zac Orth,  Frank Whaley
    Director: John Irvin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set during one of the Second World War's most shocking and unforgettable battles - the battle of Hurtgen Forest in the Autumn of 1944. American forces are under orders to secure a bridge flanked by enemy tanks. Men already trapped in a hellish minefield face death from all sides as shells rain down ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 976 members
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  • Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
    Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh,  Ron Eldard,  Glenne Headly
    Director: Anjelica Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone (Malone), the eldest daughter, and Anney (Leigh) her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen (Eldard) as her last chance.
    2.5 stars out of 5 55% from 12 members
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  • Sleepers - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Robert De Niro,  Dustin Hoffman
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Tommy, John, Michael, and Shakes are four young teenage punks growing up in the streets of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in the mid-1960s. When these four friends pull a prank that that goes awry, they find themselves serving time at the Wilkinson School for Boys, where they are repeatedly and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 97 members
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  • Sleepers on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Robert De Niro,  Dustin Hoffman
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Tommy, John, Michael, and Shakes are four young teenage punks growing up in the streets of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in the mid-1960s. When these four friends pull a prank that that goes awry, they find themselves serving time at the Wilkinson School for Boys, where they are repeatedly and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 18,203 members
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  • The Last Supper on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Cameron Diaz,  Annabeth Gish,  Ron Eldard
    Director: Stacy Title
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A tongue-in-cheek examination of both sides of the political spectrum, this black comedy follows the culinary exploits of a group of liberal graduate students who invite right-wingers to dinner to pick their brains--literally, as it turns out. After each dinner, the guest of honor is murdered and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,215 member
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  • True Love (1989)
    Starring: Annabella Sciorra,  Ron Eldard,  Aida Turturro
    Director: Nancy Savoca
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Nothing is more exciting than a wedding in Donna (Annabella Sciorra) and Michael's (Ron Eldard) Bronx neighborhood. So why is the happy couple wondering if this marriage is going to be the end of a beautiful relationship? While Michael tries to figure out why Donna wants sky blue mashed potatoes at ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 4 members
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Ron Eldard facts

5 most recent films

Super 8 - 3.5 stars
Super 8 - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Roadie - 2.0 stars
Already Dead - 3.0 stars
Freedomland - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Black Hawk Down - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Sleepers - 3.5 stars
Super 8 - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Sleepers - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Super 8 - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Roadie - 2.0 stars
True Love - 2.5 stars
Bastard Out of Carolina - 2.5 stars
Just A Kiss - 2.0 stars
The Runner - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Eric Bana - 5 times - show films
Hugh Dancy - 5 times - show films
Tom Sizemore - 5 times - show films
Josh Hartnett - 5 times - show films
Kim Coates - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ridley Scott - 5 times - show films
Steve Beck - 3 times - show films
Barry Levinson - 2 times - show films
Barry Levinson - 2 times - show films
Joe Roth - 2 times - show films