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Richard Chaves
Richard John Chaves (born 1951) is an American character actor, Vietnam veteran, and Tracers ensemble playwright known as Poncho in Predator (1987) and Colonel Paul Ironhorse in War of the Worlds (1988–89).
Richard D. Zanuck
Richard D. Zanuck (1934-2012), American film producer and 20th Century Fox production chief; with David Brown produced Jaws, The Sting; won best picture Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy; produced six Tim Burton films.
Richard Davalos
Richard Davalos (1930–2016), American actor also billed as Dick Davalos, played Aron Trask opposite James Dean in East of Eden (1955), Blind Dick in Cool Hand Luke, and appeared on Smiths album covers.
Richard Denning
Richard Denning, born Louis Albert Heindrich Denninger Jr., was an American actor who played Hawaii's governor on "Hawaii Five-0" and starred with Lucille Ball on radio.
Richard Donner
Richard Donner (Richard Donald Schwartzberg, 1930–2021), American director of The Omen, Superman (1978), The Goonies, and the four Lethal Weapon films; fired from Superman II, later honored by the 2006 Donner Cut.
Richard Erdman
Richard Erdman (born John Richard Erdmann, 1925-2019), American character actor of more than 175 productions; barracks chief Hoffy in Stalag 17, Patrick McNulty in The Twilight Zone's "A Kind of a Stopwatch," and Leonard on Community. Not the sculptor or other namesakes.
Richard Fleischer
Richard Fleischer (1916–2006), American film director and son of animator Max Fleischer; directed 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Narrow Margin, Fantastic Voyage, Soylent Green, and Conan the Destroyer; Oscar winner for Design for Death.
Richard Gregson
Richard Gregson (1930–2019), British talent agent, film producer, and screenwriter; Oscar-nominated co-writer of The Angry Silence, producer of Downhill Racer, and second husband of Natalie Wood, father of Natasha Gregson Wagner.
Richard III (1955 film)
Richard III (1955) is Laurence Olivier's third Shakespeare film as director and star, adapted from Shakespeare's Richard III and Henry VI Part 3, shot in VistaVision and Technicolor, a U.S. box-office failure that became a classic after its landmark NBC television premiere.
Richard III (1995 film)
Richard III (1995) is Richard Loncraine's film of Shakespeare's play, starring and co-written by Ian McKellen, set in a fascist 1930s England; it won the Silver Bear for Best Director and earned two Oscar nominations.
Richard Jewell (film)
Richard Jewell (2019) is Clint Eastwood's biographical drama, written by Billy Ray, about the security guard falsely suspected in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing, starring Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Olivia Wilde, and Jon Hamm; it drew controversy over its portrayal of reporter Kathy Scruggs.
Richard Lawson (actor)
Richard Lawson (actor) is an American actor born 1947 in Loma Linda, California, known for Poltergeist, V, Dynasty, All My Children, and Beauty in Black; Vietnam veteran, acting teacher, and founder of Richard Lawson Studios.
Richard Lynch
Richard Hugh Lynch (1940–2012, some sources 1936) was an American character actor famous for villain roles in horror and sci-fi films like The Sword and the Sorcerer, Invasion U.S.A., and Halloween, scarred by a 1967 LSD-related fire.
Richard Norton (actor)
Richard Norton (1950-2025), Australian martial artist, actor, and fight choreographer; co-creator of Zen Do Kai; villain in The Octagon and Hong Kong films with Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung; Prime Imperator in Mad Max films.
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert is a 1979 concert film of Pryor's December 29, 1978 Terrace Theater show in Long Beach, directed by Jeff Margolis, grossing over $30 million and entering the National Film Registry in 2021.
Richard Rishi
Richard Rishi (Richard Sharaf Babu) is an Indian actor in Tamil and Telugu cinema, a former child artist whose leads include Kadhal Virus, Draupathi, Rudra Thandavam, and Veera Simha Kadavarayan in Draupathi 2 (2026).
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper (born 1959) is a Chicago film critic and columnist, co-host of Ebert & Roeper (2000-2008), longtime Chicago Sun-Times columnist until 2025, now at RogerEbert.com and NBC 5 Chicago.
Richard Stanley (director)
Richard Stanley (born 1966) is a South African cult film director of Hardware (1990), Dust Devil (1992), and Color Out of Space (2019), known for his firing from The Island of Dr. Moreau and his myth-focused documentaries.
Richard White (actor)
Richard White (born 1953, Oak Ridge, Tennessee) is an American Broadway baritone and voice actor, the original voice of Gaston in Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast; also created Erik in Kopit/Yeston's Phantom and voiced Whisper in King's Quest. Distinct from the South African and Australian actors of the same name.
Richie (film)
Richie (ரிச்சி) is a 2017 Tamil action crime drama directed by Gautham Ramachandran, starring Nivin Pauly as a coastal-town thug; an adaptation of Rakshit Shetty's 2014 Kannada film Ulidavaru Kandanthe, released 8 December 2017 to mixed reviews.
Richie Rich (film)
Richie Rich is a 1994 American live-action family comedy directed by Donald Petrie, starring Macaulay Culkin as a boy billionaire who must rescue his kidnapped parents and family company.
Rick Aviles
Rick Aviles (Richard Anthony Aviles, 1952–1995), American stand-up comedian and character actor from New York's Lower East Side; Willie Lopez in Ghost (1990), Quisqueya in Carlito's Way, host of It's Showtime at the Apollo.
Rick Ducommun
Rick Ducommun (Richard Dennis Ducommun, 1952-2015), Canadian stand-up comedian and character actor; played Art Weingartner in The 'Burbs (1989), Gus in Groundhog Day, and Cindy's dad in Scary Movie; lost over 200 lb before his breakthrough.
Rick Hurst
Rick Hurst (Richard Douglas Hurst, 1946–2025), American character actor, played dim-witted Deputy Cletus Hogg on CBS's The Dukes of Hazzard (55 episodes, 1979–1982) and its two reunion films; also On the Rocks, Amanda's, Steel Magnolias; father of actor Ryan Hurst.
Rick Moranis
Rick Moranis (Frederick Allan Moranis, born 1953, Toronto) is a Canadian comic actor, SCTV's Bob McKenzie, and star of Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; he left acting in 1997 to raise his children and returns as Dark Helmet in Spaceballs: The New One (2027).
Rick Zumwalt
Rick Zumwalt (Richard Lee Zumwalt Jr., 1951-2003) was an American world champion arm wrestler and actor, best known as Bob 'Bull' Hurley in Over the Top (1987) and later Cirque du Soleil's first strongman in Alegria.
Ricki and the Flash
Ricki and the Flash is a 2015 American comedy-drama, also called Ricki Rendazzo's story, directed by Jonathan Demme from a Diablo Cody screenplay, starring Meryl Streep as a bar-band singer who returns to her estranged Indiana family, with live music by Rick Springfield's band.
Ricky (2025 film)
Ricky (2025) is Rashad Frett's feature debut drama, premiering at Sundance January 24, 2025 and winning the US Dramatic Directing Award. Stephan James stars as a 30-year-old ex-offender reentering society in Hartford, Connecticut, with Sheryl Lee Ralph; Blue Harbor released it in April 2026.
Ricky Stanicky
Ricky Stanicky is a 2024 Peter Farrelly comedy on Prime Video, starring Zac Efron and John Cena, about friends whose invented alibi friend must be impersonated; developed over 15 years with Franco and Carrey once attached.
Riddhi Sen (ঋদ্ধি সেন)
Riddhi Sen (ঋদ্ধি সেন), Bengali film and theatre actor, son of Kaushik Sen; youngest winner of India's National Film Award for Best Actor, at 19, for Nagarkirtan (2017).