Ron Thompson

Actor

Born - 31 January 1941, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Died - 13 April 2024

Taciturn, brown-haired American character actor with piercing blue eyes, who started his showbiz career as a rock singer (billed as Ronnie Thompson) before turning to acting. Films, often as disreputable characters, include Brown Eye, Evil Eye (1968), The No Mercy Man (1972), The Gun (1974), The White Buffalo (1977), American Pop (1981), That Ain't Bebop (1988), American Me (1991), Deep Cover (1992), Fallen Arches (2000), Bottleneck (2006), Happy Winter Solstice (2014), Hate Horses (2017), Gina (2018), Tellers (2019), Natasha Hall (2021) and Suffrage (2023), his last.