The Reg

This just in: Reginald VelJohnson may be the most prolific cop in cinematic history.

Lazy Sunday night in Brooklyn. Viv, Mike, and I are watching Ghostbusters. All is calm... until the scene where the guys are in jail then they get taken to the mayor or something. We're only sort of paying attention until they're released from the clink... by none other than Carl (Otis) Winslow himself.

Crowd goes nuts.

Why? Because last night, this is what we were talking about. Everything we could think of that RVL has been in, he has played a cop. Here's the list we came up:

• Family Matters
• Die Hard
• Die Hard 2: Die Harder
• Ghostbusters

After the Ghostbusters cameo, we hopped on his imdb page to test the theory. Here's what we found:

• Kojak: The Belarus File (1985) (TV) (uncredited) .... Policeman at courtroom
• Plain Clothes (1988) .... Captain Graff
• Turner & Hooch (1989) (as Reginald Veljohnson) .... Det. David Sutton
• One of Her Own (1994) (TV) .... Det. Bob Hymes

Other notables include an ambassador, an ambulance driver, two reverends, five doctors, one judge, a morgue attendant, jail guard, Santa, a "Santa thief", and Chester the Mattress King -- still, you'll always be brass and blue to us, Reg.