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David Caruso

David Caruso
Distinctive red-haired American actor, born 7 January 1956 in Queens, New York, best known as cool cucumber, sunglasses-fixated crimesolver Horatio Caine on the wildly popular “CSI: Miami”. Caruso first appeared as a fresh young face opposite some surprisingly big names: as Richard Gere's obnoxious and ill-fated classmate in "An Officer and a Gentleman", and a clueless hick deputy crossing Sylvester Stallone's warpath in "Rambo: First Blood".

He sneered and menaced his way through the rest of the 80's before landing his big break in *the* original cop show "NYPD Blue" as the caring, sharing half of the good cop/bad cop double act with grizzled veteran Dennis Franz. He was its breakout star, and, as the show snowballed, he very publicly took his leave midway through the second season to pursue fame on the silver screen.

Famously, his glittering career as a leading man failed to materialise, and he managed a couple of poorly-received and underwhelming B-movies (notably raunchy 'erotic thriller' "Jade") before sinking into obscurity. He resurfaced in 2000 as Russell Crowe's personable fellow soldier-of-fortune in "Proof of Life", and after a few false starts ("Black Point"), hit his stride once more at the head of CSI's suntanned spinoff.



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David Caruso - news / articles


  • Caruso 'stalker' arrested - 22 February 2009
    -An Austrian woman accused of stalking Csi: Miami star David Caruso has been detained after an international warrant was issued for her arrest.- -The unnamed 41-year-old - whose identity is protected under the country's privacy laws - was due to stand trial in April (

David Caruso - what members say


  • Proof of Life
  • Proof of Life review by from SUNDERLAND
    Rated - 5.0 stars 7 November 2004
    .... Great plot and excellent acting from Meg Ryan, David Morse, Russel Crowe and David Caruso. The story line is that Morse had been kidnapped for a ransom by a guerilla gr...   Read customer review
  • NYPD Blue - Season 1
  • NYPD Blue - Season 1 review by from Eastbourne
    Rated - 5.0 stars Better than any cop show on now. 22 May 2006
    ...lossy, lacking in realism and character development. The scripts are superb and David Caruso and Dennis Franz have never been better. If you like glossy, formulaic shows ...   Read customer review
  • CSI Miami - Season 1 -  Part 1
  • CSI Miami - Season 1 - Part 1 review by from Derbyshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Fresh, addictive drama of the highest order. 23 November 2004
    ...sister show to C.S.I. Crimescene. Superb locations in Miami make it look great. David Caruso is a great TV actor. Something he seems born for. He adds humanity depth and fe...   Read customer review

David Caruso - filmography


  • CSI Miami - Season 2 - Part 2 (3 discs) on DVD (2004)
    Starring: David Caruso,  Emily Procter,  Adam Rodriguez
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Horatio Caine, a former homicide detective, heads a group of investigators who work crimes amid the steamy, tropical surroundings and cultural crossroads of Miami. His team includes Calliegh Duquesne, a bilingual Southern beauty with a specialty in ballistics; Tim Speedle, a cocky yet disarming ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 3,897 members
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  • CSI Miami - Season 1 - Part 2 (3 discs) on DVD (2003)
    Starring: David Caruso,  Emily Procter,  Adam Rodriguez
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A crime series based in Miami. Horatio Caine the head criminologist in the team and his crime scene investigator colleagues crack multiple cases using evidence left at the crime scene. Episodes Comprise: 13. Bunk 14. Forced Entry 15. Dead Woman Walking 16. Evidence of Things Unseen 17. Simple ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 4,894 members
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  • CSI Miami - Season 2 - Part 1 (3 discs) on DVD (2003)
    Starring: David Caruso,  Emily Procter,  Adam Rodriguez
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A crime series based in Miami. Horatio Caine the head criminologist in the team and his crime scene investigator colleagues crack multiple cases using evidence left at the crime scene. Episodes comprise: 1. Blood Brothers 2. Dead Zone 3. Hard Time 4. Death Grip 5. The Best Defense 6. Hurricane ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 4,414 members
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  • Black Point on DVD (2001)
    Starring: David Caruso,  Susan Haskell,  Thomas Ian Griffith
    Director: David Mackay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Seasoned television cop David Caruso (formerly of TV's hit series NYPD BLUE) goes back to his crime fighting roots here, playing an ex-cop with a strong sense of right and wrong. When he falls obsessively in love with a beautiful woman, this former policeman finds himself caught up on the side of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 196 members
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  • Session 9 on DVD (2001)
    Starring: David Caruso,  Peter Mullan,  Brendan Sexton III
    Director: Brad Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The Danvers State Mental Hospital closed down fifteen years ago. Now there's five strangers from the Elimination Company to clean it up. The hospital holds many secrets from its evil past...
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 3,171 members
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  • Proof of Life on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Meg Ryan,  Russell Crowe,  David Morse
    Director: Taylor Hackford
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Around the world, between 20,000 and 50,000 people are kidnapped each year. In Taylor Hackford's suspense-filled adventure film, American businessman Peter Bowman (David Morse) is traveling in a Latin American country when a group of criminals take him as their hostage and hold him for ransom. The ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,417 members
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  • Deadlocked (2000)
    Starring: Tom Butler,  David Caruso,  Charles S. Dutton
    Director: Michael Watkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Demond Doyle (Jo D. Jonz) is convicted of the rape and murder of his employer's wife. Something is clearly wrong with the prosecution's evidence, however, and when Demond wont defend himself, his devoted father, Jacob (Charles S. Dutton), intervenes. Taking the jury hostage, Jacob demands that ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 37 members
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  • Body Count on DVD (1998)
    Starring: David Caruso,  Linda Fiorentino,  Forest Whitaker
    Director: Robert Patton Spruill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Pike is a man who always seems to get mixed up with the wrong people. After he is released from prison a friend persuades him to do one more hit, this time a no violence raid on an art gallery. Things don't go quite as planned...
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 198 members
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  • Jade (1995)
    Starring: David Caruso,  Linda Fiorentino,  Chazz Palminteri
    Director: William Friedkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Assistant D.A. David Corelli (David Caruso) is trapped between friendship and the law when the brutal murder of an important San Franciso millionaire points toward his former lover and college friend, Trina Gavin (Linda Fiorentino), a beautiful woman with a mysterious alter ego. As details of the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 1,344 member
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  • Kiss Of Death - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: David Caruso,  Nicolas Cage,  Samuel L. Jackson
    Director: Barbet Schroeder
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    KISS OF DEATH opens with ex-convict Jimmy Kilmartin (David Caruso) attempting to distance himself from his shady past. His cousin, Ronny (Michael Rapaport), shows up at his door begging for help with one more heist, and Jimmy agrees to participate against his better judgment. Things go sour when a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3 members
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  • Kiss Of Death on DVD (1995)
    Starring: David Caruso,  Nicolas Cage,  Samuel L. Jackson
    Director: Barbet Schroeder
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    KISS OF DEATH opens with ex-convict Jimmy Kilmartin (David Caruso) attempting to distance himself from his shady past. His cousin, Ronny (Michael Rapaport), shows up at his door begging for help with one more heist, and Jimmy agrees to participate against his better judgment. Things go sour when a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,484 member
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  • NYPD Blue - Season 3 (6 discs) on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Dennis Franz,  David Caruso,  James McDaniel
    Director: Carol Banker,  Ed Begley Jr.
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    One of the most acclaimed and beloved dramas in television history, NYPD Blue has finally signed off from network TV. Relive all the passion, brotherhood, joy, and heartbreak of the 15th precinct as NYPD Blue is immortalized on DVD with Season 3. In this season Dennis Franz won his second of 4 ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 822 members
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  • Mad Dog And Glory on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Bill Murray,  Kathy Baker
    Director: John McNaughton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Chicago evidence detective Wayne Dobie (De Niro) is a shy, soft-spoken man who hasn't drawn his gun in fifteen years. His fellow cops have jokingly nicknamed him "Mad Dog" for his lack of guts. But when Dobie inadvertently saves the life of Frank Milo (Murray), a local gangster and loan shark who ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,683 member
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  • King Of New York on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Christopher Walken,  Laurence Fishburne,  Wesley Snipes
    Director: Abel Ferrara
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Christopher Walken stars as Frank White, an ultracool crime boss, in this moody gem from director Abel Ferrara. Released from a long stint in jail, White rejoins his devoted gang, which includes the trigger-happy Jimmy Jump (Laurence Fishburne), Test Tube (Steve Buscemi), and his attractive ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 4,739 members
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  • King of New York - Blu-ray (1990)
    Starring: Christopher Walken,  Laurence Fishburne,  Wesley Snipes
    Director: Abel Ferrara
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Christopher Walken stars as Frank White, a drug lord who's just been released from a long stint in prison. Aware that feeding off of society's depravity has made him a wealthy man, Frank has become determined to give something back to the city, and he hatches a scheme to build a multimillion-dollar ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 28 members
    Due for release on 25th June 2012
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  • Twins on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Chloe Webb,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Twin brothers--hardly identical--are separated at birth. As the result of a genetic experiment gone awry, the brothers could not be more different, both physically and emotionally. Raised in a sheltered environment away on a desert island, giant Julius (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has developed into a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 11,265 members
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  • China Girl on DVD (1987)
    Starring: James Russo,  David Caruso,  Sari Chang
    Director: Abel Ferrara
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A street-smart Italian youth falls in love with a shy Chinese girl. Their romance blossoms, igniting an ugly, all-out gang war led by his hot-head brother and her own brother, the leader of the reigning Chinese gang. Set in New York's Lower East Side.
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 147 members
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  • Thief Of Hearts on DVD (1984)
    Starring: John Getz,  Barbara Williams,  Steven Bauer
    Director: Douglas Day Stewart
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Young thief Scott (Steven Bauer, SCARFACE), steals some photos and a young woman's diary while raiding her home. After reading the diary, which contains her innermost thoughts (which are decidedly sexual), he becomes obsessed with her. He facilitates a meeting with her, and they embark upon a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 158 members
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  • Rambo - First Blood on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Sylvester Stallone,  Richard Crenna,  Brian Dennehy
    Director: Ted Kotcheff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    He never fought a battle he couldn't win: except the conflict raging within his own soul. Academy Award winner Sylvester Stallone stars as war hero John Rambo. An ex-Green Beret haunted by memories of Vietnam, he was once the perfect killing machine. Now he's searching for peace, but finds instead ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 16,890 members
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  • Rambo - First Blood - HD (1982)
    Starring: Sylvester Stallone,  Richard Crenna,  Brian Dennehy
    Director: Ted Kotcheff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After being arrested for a crime which he did not commit, a Green Beret survivor of the Vietnam War begins having terrible nightmares. This gripping, action-packed tale demonstrates the tragic psychological consequences of armed struggle. Sequel: "Rambo: First Blood Part II."
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 595 members
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David Caruso facts

5 most recent films

CSI Miami - Season 8 - 4.0 stars
CSI Miami - Season 9 - 3.0 stars
CSI Miami - Season 7 - 4.0 stars
CSI Miami - Season 6 - Part 2 - 4.5 stars
CSI Miami - Season 6 - Part 1 - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

CSI Miami - Season 6 - Part 2 - 4.5 stars
CSI Miami - Season 8 - 4.0 stars
CSI Miami - Season 7 - 4.0 stars
CSI Miami - Season 5 - Part 2 - 4.0 stars
CSI Miami - Season 6 - Part 1 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Deadlocked - 2.5 stars
Kiss Of Death - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
CSI Miami - Season 9 - 3.0 stars
Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis - 3.5 stars
King of New York - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Adam Rodriguez - 56 times - show films
Emily Procter - 48 times - show films
Khandi Alexander - 48 times - show films
Jonathan Togo - 40 times - show films
Rex Linn - 36 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 22 times - show films
Sam Hill - 17 times - show films
Karen Gaviola - 16 times - show films
Scott Lautanen - 16 times - show films
Matt Earl Beesley - 15 times - show films