Ramon Bieri

Ramon Bieri June 16 1929 May 27 2001 was an American actor A heavyset character actor his typical screen personae tended to be gruff westerners irate cops and hardboiled gangsters Bieri was decorated Korean War veteran who began his stage career in 1954 appearing both on and offBroadway notably in Death of a Salesman in 1975 In later years he acted with the ensemble of San Diegos Old Globe Theatre notably as the tough captain in Mr Roberts 1995 On screen he made his television debut in 1962 as a bit part player he went on to have a prolific career as guest star in television shows throughout the 1970s and 1980s Bieri also starred in his own shortlived NBC sitcom Joes World 1979 as a Detroit house painter with five kids and assorted problems He had roles in notable films such as Badlands 1973 The Conversation 1974 Sorcerer 1977 and Reds 1981 In private life he was said to have been a keen fisherman and sailor Bieri died in May 2001 in Woodland Hills from cancer at the age of 71