Ronald Christ Karabatsos (1933–2012) was an American character actor, who prior to his acting career worked as a Union City police detective.
[citation needed] Upon graduating from high school, Karabatsos was drafted in the U.S. Army spending most of his service time in the Korean War.
James Wolcott dissented, concluding that the film "[wore] its liberal pieties like a crown of thorns," although he reserved praise for Karabatsos' work, writing that he "carries his hulk with impressive menace as a slime-souled bail bondsman.
"[3] Critic David S. Machlowitz,[5] though agreeing with Wolcott's take on the movie, wrote that Karabatsos "is superb as [the] bloated, belligerent bail bondsman."
[6]: 445 [7]: 188 [8] He died on April 17, 2012, five days before his 79th birthday, in Beaumont, California, from a non-communicable disease, survived by wife Janell, daughter Dawnne Rigsby, and an extended family.