Raymond O'Connor

Raymond O'Connor was an American character actor whose work carried him from experimental off-off Broadway stages to more than a hundred film and television productions. Born in New York City in 1952, he studied at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina, began performing theater as an undergraduate, and pursued it further in graduate school in the mid 1970s with the First Amendment Comedy group and the Medicine Show Theatre. After moving to Los Angeles he took his first screen role in the 1985 miniseries Kane & Abel and went on to appear in films such as Off Limits (1988), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), My Blue Heaven (1990), Life Stinks (1991) and My Giant (1998). He also made guest appearances on Seinfeld, Beverly Hills 90210, Sister, Sister, Silk Stalkings and Babylon 5, and wrote screenplays, short stories and poetry. He died in 2023.