David Rasche

David Rasche is the kind of dependable character actor whose face you know long before you can name him. I first locked onto him as the trigger-happy detective in Sledge Hammer!, a deadpan parody he played with total commitment, but his later work in films like Burn After Reading and In the Loop shows real range and comic precision. He came up through serious theatre at Chicago, and you can feel that discipline under the silliness. Reliable, sharp, and always a little smarter than the material asks him to be.

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David Rasche is an American actor born August 7, 1944, in St. Louis, Missouri. He works across television, film, and stage, and attended the University of Chicago. He is widely recognized for the title role in the 1980s satirical series Sledge Hammer! and has built a long career of supporting roles in film and theatre.

Name (English)

David Rasche

Name (Japanese)

デヴィッド・ラッシュ

Reading

でゔぃっど・らっしゅ

Born

August 7, 1944 (age 82)

Origin

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Occupation

Television actor / Film actor / Stage actor / Actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Monkey

University

University of Chicago

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Rasche
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q729572

Tags

• From Missouri
• Television actor
• Film actor
• Stage actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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