Background
Ratcliffe was born in Glade Hill, Virginia.
Actor screenwriter film producer
Ratcliffe was born in Glade Hill, Virginia.
He started his career as a detective in the Southern Illinois University (Special Investigations Unit) for 5 years on the Columbia Broadcasting System show Nash Bridges with Don Johnson in San Francisco. Since then, he has had many notable television appearances, with a wide variety of roles including doctors, lawyers, cops, his specialty as an auctioneer and announcer, and certainly his strong comedic characters. He is currently playing Don Foushee on the series Outsiders and has a recurring role as city councilman Jason Tyler on the 7th season of the award winning and critically acclaimed show Army Wives, Lifetime"s number one drama and the number one show on cable with women 18 to 49.
His film roles range from independent to big budget feature films.
He also produced 4 films in the past 2 years including Forbidden Fruit, Cost of Living, The Deceit, and Go for Broke 2. His commercial appearances include 6 national campaign commercials for Round Table Pizza, 2 lottery campaigns, a car campaign for Maxon Automotive recreating the "Crazy Eddie" genre, a national campaign for PNC bank, and many others
He also appeared in the reality series Transamerican Love Story with Calpernia Adams, and the Country Music Group Video of the year, "Every Day", by Rascal Flatts, "Warning" by Green Day, and was chosen America"s Most Eligible by Extra in 2007.
