Known for Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard J. Bright (June 28, 1937 – February 18, 2006) was an American actor best known for his role as Al Neri in the The Godfather films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Bright, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
June 28, 1937
Died
February 18, 2006 (age 68)
Birthplace
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
58 films, 21 shows


Day On Fire
2006 · 1h 30m
The lives of a Palestinian journalist and a Jewish model become inextricably, and shockingly, intertwined after they meet by accident in New York.


Dead Dog
2001 · 1h 31m · US
Tom and Perri are the happy ideal New York couple until Tom's beloved Golden Retriever is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Tom blames Perri for the accident and their relationship becomes strained as Tom's fixation with finding and punishing the culprit consumes his life. Events spin out of control as death, sex and cynicism take their toll on the pair's seemingly idyllic life.


Trigger Happy
2001 · 1h 40m · US
A hand gun is passed between 22 loosely connected New Yorkers.


The Photographer
2000 · 1h 31m · US
A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career. Shot in brilliant color and dramatic black and white, first-time director Jeremy Stein's industrial New York City is a wonderland, roamed by witches and magical creatures, where survival hinges on the completion of a simple quest. Accompanied by an unlikely crew of strangers he meets along the way, Max trips through a modern-day Oz and rediscovers the easily forgotten value of seeing magic reflected in everyday life.


Broke Even
2000 · 1h 34m
Dot, Lem and Curry, three hapless working-class chums living in the Bronx, have a penchant for gambling. While riding a rare winning streak, they decide to shift their focus from the New York Yankees to a controversial investment practice known as "viatical settlements" -- purchasing the life insurance policies of terminally ill patients as commodities. Convinced that betting on someone to die has Karmic ramifications, Dot distances himself from his buddies and instead pursues a romance with the free-spirited Leslie. As Dot gambles on something even more complex than viaticals, a subtly vibrant relationship between him and Leslie gracefully unfolds.


Pictures of Baby Jane Doe
1999 · 1h 32m
When down-on-his-luck photographer Horace meets Jane, a young streetwalker with a sordid lifestyle, they quickly fall in love and embark on a chaotic relationship of highs and lows. However, Jane's growing drug addiction and Horace's own personal demons threaten to tear them apart in this emotional romantic drama.


Joe the King
1999 · 1h 36m · US
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother.


Jaded
1998 · 1h 35m · US
When an innocent young girl finds herself befriended by two sexy, uninhibited girls at a small-town bar, she discovers that they have more planned than just a party-and she's central to the action.


All Revved Up
1998 · 1h 30m
A lovely school teacher finds herself the victim of a scam artist - a garage owner who delights in ripping off his customers. Soon, she has two eager young men, her lizard-loving neighbour and his friend, on her side to help her exact revenge on the sleazy mechanic, who is the leader of a stolen car ring.
Anima
Anima
1998 · 1h 30m · US
A reporter doing a story on taxidermy discovers an odd older couple that he becomes convinced are ex-Nazi's. The chief item leading to this belief is an odd puppet theater the couple operate in their basement that re-creates the Nazi era using stuffed creatures.


Night Falls on Manhattan
1997 · 1h 53m · US
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.


Calm at Sunset
1996 · 1h 45m · US
Drama about a young man who defies his parents by dropping out of college to pursue his dream of owning a fishing boat, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.


Beautiful Girls
1996 · 1h 52m · US
During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dreams and desires.


Sweet Nothing
1995 · 1h 29m · US
Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for the family. Three years later, Angel is still dealing, and has not saved any money, instead spending it on crack. His addiction grows, straining his friendship and his family life, and he gradually loses control.


Who Do I Gotta Kill?
1994 · 1h 24m · US
A struggling writer takes a job for his mobster uncle in order to obtain first-hand material for a book on conspiracy plots and the JFK assassination. They often say that a good writer lives what he writes, but what happens when the life that the writer is living could likely get him killed?


The Ref
1994 · 1h 37m · US
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.


Who's the Man?
1993 · 1h 30m · US
Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as far as their duty sergeant, Sgt Cooper is concerned, who proceeds to harass them at every turn. Despite this, they discover a major crime, and proceed to solve it in their own unusual fashion.


The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992 · 9h 43m · US
Following the release of Part III in 1990, Coppola, Barry Malkin, and Walter Murch edited the three films into chronological order to create this nearly ten-hour epic, incorporating scenes not part of the theatrical releases.


The Godfather Part III
1990 · 2h 42m · US
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.


The Ambulance
1990 · 1h 36m · US
One minute Josh Baker is meeting the woman of his dreams. The next, he's watching her whisked away by a mysterious ambulance that never arrives at the local hospital. Doubted by the police, Josh is forced to carry on a one-man crusade that leads to a discovery more frightening than his worst fears.


Ghoul School
1990 · 1h 14m · US
Two sniveling high school dropouts plot to rob the school janitor and accidentally release toxic chemicals into the school's water supply. The swimming team are the first ones to turn into green-faced flesh-eating zombies, and they promptly go after the rest of the present school populace: two horror movie nerds, the members of a metal band and the world's worst basketball team.


An Empire of Reason
1988 · 58m · US
Docudrama about the debate surrounding New York State's ratification of the United States Constitution. Historical figures wear modern dress and use familiar language to help today's audience understand firsthand the forces that shaped this country two hundred years ago. The argument, characters, passions and debating points are historically accurate, but the language and the medium of the debate is modern in form. Present day newscasters and commentators play themselves, reporting on the events of the 1780s as though they were occurring now.


The Verne Miller Story
1988 · 1h 35m · US
Upon his release from prison, Verne Miller works his way into Al Capone's organization. He becomes a top assassin and earns Capone's trust. However, Miller's failing health and an over-sized ego get him into trouble with the law and Capone.


Red Heat
1988 · 1h 44m · US
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.


Time Out
1988 · 1h 23m · DK
Drama about a young Dane who has traveled to America to find the father he can hardly remember. In New Mexico he gets to know the daughter of a political-religious fanatic who runs a "survival school". The young Dane is interested in the girl and admits to school. Later, however, there will be a violent showdown with the fanatic. But was this man, in fact, his father?


Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986 · 1h 48m · US
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.


The Penalty Phase
1986 · 1h 36m · US
Things looked pretty simple: the confessed murderer had all the evidence against him. The Prosecutor Jansen could not have been more relentless, conservative and incisive. Furthermore, the jury already had a verdict: guilty of the more than 30 charges against him. But suddenly Judge Kenneth Hoffman finds out that the evidence was not obtained legally, so the procedure is void. Judge Hoffman is in the middle of this legal storm, although he wants to apply the law strictly, he will find everybody against him.


There Must Be a Pony
1986 · 1h 35m · US
Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relationship with her teenage son, and risking a romance with a mysterious stranger.


High School Narc
1985 · 1h · US
A 22-year-old police officer poses as a student to find the identity of a drug supplier at an inner-city high school.


Brass
1985 · 1h 40m · US
The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.


Cut and Run
1985 · 1h 30m · IT
A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.


Crimewave
1985 · 1h 23m · US
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.


Once Upon a Time in America
1984 · 2h 19m · IT
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.


Two of a Kind
1983 · 1h 28m · US
God has had enough of the bad behavior and attitude of humankind, and has decided to start it all over. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller, both with very amateur criminal minds, to save the world by falling in love.


Vigilante
1983 · 1h 30m · US
New York City factory worker Eddie Marino is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. When a corrupt judge sets the thugs free, he goes berserk and vows revenge.


Girls Nite Out
1982 · 1h 36m · US
The students of DeWitt University are preparing themselves for a night of fun and frolics in the form of an all-night scavenger hunt. Little do they know that they are in fact the ones being hunted.


Sizzle
1981 · 1h 44m · US
A sultry nightclub singer, a small-town girl in the big city, sets out to avenge her boyfriend's murder after he is killed while running illegal booze for the mob.


The Idolmaker
1980 · 1h 57m · US
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.


Hair
1979 · 2h 1m · DE
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.


On the Yard
1978 · 1h 42m · US
Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con confronts Chilly's power, he learns the vicious price of defiance.


Cops and Robin
1978 · 1h 38m · US
A veteran street cop and his partner, a robot programmed to be the perfect policeman, are assigned to protect the five-year-old daughter of the widow who witnessed the killing of her police officer husband and now is stalked by the gangster who murdered him.


Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1977 · 2h 16m · US
A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.


Citizens Band
1977 · 1h 38m · US
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.


Marathon Man
1976 · 2h 6m · US
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.


Rancho Deluxe
1975 · 1h 33m · US
Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.


The Godfather Part II
1974 · 3h 22m · US
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.


The Gun
1974 · 1h 18m · US
The odyssey of an American handgun and the dramatic way it reshapes the lives of its various owners.


Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974 · 1h 53m · US
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.


The Sugarland Express
1974 · 1h 50m · US
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.


Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973 · 1h 46m · US
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.


The Connection
1973 · 1h 13m · US
An out-of-work newspaperman in need of money becomes the go-between for a jewel thief and an insurance company that wants to settle.


The Getaway
1972 · 2h 3m · US
A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.


The Godfather
1972 · 2h 55m · US
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.


A Death of Innocence
1971 · 1h 13m · US
A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.


The Panic in Needle Park
1971 · 1h 50m · US
A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless girl who finds in her relationship with Bobby the stability she craves.


Lions Love
1969 · 1h 50m · US
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.


Freedom to Love
1969 · 1h 23m · DE
A sex education film dedicated to all forms of human sexuality.


Odds Against Tomorrow
1959 · 1h 36m · US
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.