R.D. Call was an American actor, best known for his roles in films directed by Walter Hill. He was born and raised in Utah and attended the Utah State University and Weber State University. Call moved to Los Angeles in 1976 and began training with Lee Strasberg. His first role was in Barnaby Jones (1973), a TV series directed by Leo Penn.
Call then took roles in the Walter Hill films
Nur 48 Stunden (1982) and Zum Teufel mit den Kohlen (1985).
Next came Auf kurze Distanz (1986), opposite Sean Penn, and the Charlie Sheen thriller, No Man's Land - Tatort 911 (1987). Dennis Hopper cast him in Hopper's thriller, Colors - Farben der Gewalt (1988), again opposite Sean Penn. Call would work with both Leo and Sean Penn -- and Martin Sheen -- in Ein Richter für Berlin (1988).
Towards the end of the 1980s, roles included
Michael Mann's
Showdown in L.A. (1989) -- the original version of Mann's Heat (1995) -- and a cameo appearance in Oliver Stone's Geboren am 4. Juli (1989). Call appeared opposite Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland in Blaze of Glory: Flammender Ruhm (1990) and was back with Sean Penn in Im Vorhof der Hölle (1990), conveying a close working relationship with both the Penn and Sheen families.
The mid-1990s were equally kind to Call, with roles in Waterworld (1995) and Walter Hill's
Last Man Standing (1996), in which he starred with Bruce Willis. More recent roles include the Sandra Bullock thriller, Mord nach Plan (2002), the Brad Pitt drama, Babel (2006), and the Sean Penn-directed Into the Wild (2007).
Call appeared in numerous TV series, including
Akte X: Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI (1993) and Stephen King's
Stephen Kings Schöne Neue Zeit (1991).
