Ronald Egan Randell (8 October 1918 - 11 June 2005) was an Australian-born American film character actor. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and died in Los Angeles, California.

Randell started his career as a stage and radio performer in his teens.

He appeared as the lead in "Smithy", a biographical movie about the pioneering Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, who made the first flight across the Pacific (from the United States to Australia) in 1928. (The film was released as "Pacific Adventure" in the United States and as "Southern Cross" in the United Kingdom). Ron Randell's role in the movie led to a Hollywood contract. His movies included Kiss Me, Kate (as Cole Porter), I Am a Camera, King of Kings, The She-Creature and The Longest Day. His performance as the Roman centurion Lucius in King of Kings, who, in the film, defends Christ at his trial as a sort of impromptu legal counsel, and presumably becomes converted to Christianity after the Crucifixion, was arguably his best.

From October 1954 through December 1955, Randell hosted the ABC anthology series The Vise. He guest starred on Bewitched, 1964.

Ron Randell's Broadway credits include School for Scandal (1995), Duet for One (1981), Bent (1979), Mrs. Warren's Profession (1976), Butley (1972), The World of Suzie Wong (1958) and Candida (1952).

He married Laya Raki in 1958 and they remained together until his death following a stroke aged 86.

Sydney-born Ron Randell began his six-decade-long career in his teens on radio in his native Australia for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He promptly moved to stage where he acted with the Minerva Theatre Group from 1937 to 1946, while intermittently appearing in Australian films. Well-received reviews for his title role in the movie Smithy (1946) [Pacific Adventure] led to a Hollywood contract, making his debut in It Had to Be You (1947) in support of Ginger Rogers and Cornel Wilde. Randell went on to play both hero and villain in both a lead and supporting capacity. His host of "B" pictures included short runs as supersleuth Bulldog Drummond and the Lone Wolf. Although he was never a top name per se, he led a durable transatlantic film career for much of the 50s and 60s, which included a minor role as composer Cole Porter in Kiss Me Kate (1953) and the lead in the gangster flick Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961). From the "Golden Age" of 50s TV, he went on star in the American/British espionage series "O.S.S." (1957) for a season, and guest starred on such programs as "Bewitched," "The Farmer's Daughter," "Mission: Impossible," "Bonanza" and "The F.B.I." playing a number of cultivated gents. On Broadway he enjoyed healthy critical successes such as "The Browning Version" (1949), a revival of "Candida" (1952), The World of Suzie Wong" (1958), Butley (1972), "Sherlock Holmes" (1975), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1976) and "Bent" (1979). He continued his stage career, in fact, well into the 1990s, including a stint with the late Tony Randall (I)'s National Actors Theater company which included a run of "The School for Scandal" (1995). Randell died following complications of a stroke in a Los Angeles assisted facility at age 86 in 2005.