R. D. Call is an American actor, best known for his roles in films 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 48 heures (1982) and Comment claquer un million de dollars par jour? (1985). Next came Comme un chien enragé (1986) opposite Sean Penn and the Charlie Sheen thriller 260 chrono (1987). Dennis Hopper cast him in Hopper's thriller Colors (1988), again opposite Sean Penn, and he would work with Leo and Sean Penn - and Martin Sheen - in Judgment in Berlin (1988).
Towards the end of the 1980s, roles included Michael Mann's L.A. Takedown (1989) - the original version of Mann's Heat (1995) - and a cameo appearance in Oliver Stone's Né un quatre juillet (1989). Call appeared opposite Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland in Young Guns II (1990) and was back with Sean Penn in Les anges de la nuit (1990), conveying a close working relationship with both the Penn and Sheen family.
The mid-1990s were equally kind to Call, with roles in Waterworld (1995) and Walter Hill's Dernier recours (1996) in which he starred with Bruce Willis. More recent roles include the Sandra Bullock thriller Calculs meurtriers (2002), the Brad Pitt drama Babel (2006) and the Sean Penn-directed Into the Wild (2007).
Call has also appeared in numerous TV series, including X Files: aux frontières du réel (1993) and Stephen King's Compte à rebours (1991).
