Ray Glanzmann

Ray Glanzmann is an American actor with a career of small supporting and background roles in film and television spanning the late 1980s through the late 1990s.¹ He is best known in Ghostbusters fandom for his appearance in Ghostbusters II (1989).

Career

Glanzmann's screen career consists primarily of minor bit parts in major Hollywood productions. His earliest known credit is a reporter role in Rocky IV (1985). He subsequently appeared in Ghostbusters II (1989), Ivan Reitman's Kindergarten Cop (1990) as Mall Guard #2, the TV movie False Arrest (1991) as Reporter #2, and Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) as a Highway Patrolman.¹

On television, he made single-episode appearances in Matlock (1990) as Worker #3, Seinfeld (1992) as Protester #2, and Homicide: Life on the Street (1997) as Officer Hannigan.¹

No biographical details such as birth date or birthplace are documented in publicly available sources.¹

Ghostbusters II

Glanzmann appeared in Ghostbusters II (1989) as one of the detectives who question the Ghostbusters following the incident on the Park Avenue subway tunnel.² The Ghostbusters II production press kit credits him as "Detective #3," listing him after Yvette Cruise (Detective #1) and John Hammil (Detective #2).² The character is also credited as "Detective No. 2" in some cast listings, including the Ghostbusters Wiki.¹ The third detective in the series, Alex Zimmerman, is credited as Detective No. 3 in those same sources.

References

Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.

Footnotes

1. "Ray Glanzmann," The Movie Database, accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/172525-ray-glanzmann. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵