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Richard Jenkins
Richard Jenkins (born 1947, DeKalb, Illinois) is an American character actor, Trinity Rep artistic director 1990-1994, Six Feet Under's Nathaniel Fisher, Oscar-nominated for The Visitor and The Shape of Water, Emmy winner for Olive Kitteridge.
Richard Johnson (actor)
Richard Keith Johnson (1927–2015), English stage and screen actor, RSC founding associate artist, star of The Haunting and Khartoum, who declined James Bond in Dr. No; not the American character actors of the same name.
Richard Jordan
Richard Jordan (Robert Anson Jordan Jr., 1937-1993), American Harvard-educated stage and screen actor; Golden Globe winner for Captains and Kings, played Duncan Idaho in Dune and Armistead in Gettysburg; distinct from namesakes Robert Jordan and Michael B. Jordan.
Richard Karn
Richard Karn (Richard Karn Wilson, born 1956, Seattle) is an American actor and host, famous as Al Borland on ABC's Home Improvement (1991–1999) and as host of Family Feud (2002–06) and Bingo America, later reuniting with Tim Allen on Assembly Required and More Power.
Richard Kiel
Richard Kiel (1939-2014), American actor, 7 ft 2 in due to acromegaly, played steel-toothed Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979), the only Bond henchman in two films; also Eegah, The Longest Yard, Pale Rider, Happy Gilmore.
Richard Kind
Richard Kind (born 1956) is an American character actor known for Mad About You, Spin City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bing Bong in Inside Out, and A Serious Man; Northwestern graduate and Second City-trained, with over 300 screen credits.
Richard Kline
Richard Kline (born Richard Klein, 1944) is an American actor and director known as Larry Dallas on Three's Company (1977-84, 131 episodes) and both spin-offs, plus Broadway work and Blue Bloods.
Richard Libertini
Richard Libertini (1933–2016), American character actor from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Second City alumnus known for accents; played General Garcia in The In-Laws, Frank Walker in Fletch, and voiced Dijon in DuckTales.
Richard Long (actor)
Richard McCord Long (1927–1974), American actor known as Dick Long; star of ABC's The Big Valley, Nanny and the Professor, Bourbon Street Beat, and 77 Sunset Strip, with film roles from The Egg and I to House on Haunted Hill.
Richard Lumsden
Richard James Lumsden, born 1965 in Lancashire, is an English actor, writer, and composer known for roles in Sense and Sensibility (1995), Darkest Hour (2017), and Sugar Rush.
Richard Madden
Richard Madden (born 1986) is a Scottish actor known as Robb Stark in Game of Thrones, Golden Globe winner for Bodyguard, John Reid in Rocketman, Ikaris in Eternals, and Mason Kane in Citadel.
Richard Moll
Richard Moll (1943-2023) was an American character actor who played bailiff Bull Shannon on NBC's Night Court (1984-1992) and voiced Two-Face in Batman: The Animated Series; he died in Big Bear Lake, California.
Richard Mulligan
Richard Mulligan (1932-2000), American comic character actor, Emmy winner as Burt Campbell in Soap and Dr. Harry Weston in Empty Nest; brother of director Robert Mulligan.
Richard Ney
Richard Ney (1916-2004), American actor and investment adviser; played Vin Miniver in Mrs. Miniver (1942), married Greer Garson 1943-1947, then wrote The Wall Street Jungle and predicted the 1962 crash.
Richard O'Brien
Richard O'Brien (Richard Timothy Smith, born 1942, Cheltenham) is an English-New Zealand actor and writer who created The Rocky Horror Show (1973), played Riff Raff in the 1975 film, and hosted The Crystal Maze.
Richard O'Sullivan
Richard O'Sullivan (1944-2026), British comic actor and former child star, played Robin Tripp in Man About the House and Robin's Nest, Dick Turpin, and Me and My Girl; his sitcom format inspired Three's Company.
Richard Rankin
Richard Rankin (born 1983, birth name Richard Harris) is a Scottish actor known as Roger Wakefield MacKenzie in Outlander, the lead in BBC's Rebus, Burnistoun, and narrator of the 2026 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
Richard Ridings
Richard Ridings (born 1958, Henley-on-Thames) is an English actor, the voice of Daddy Pig in Peppa Pig (2004–2025) and Mr. Bumble in Dickensian; also seen in Erik the Viking and The Pianist.
Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree (1942-2023), American actor, played Detective John Shaft in Shaft (1971), becoming one of the first Black action heroes; also Roots, Se7en, and the 2000 and 2019 Shaft films.
Richard Roxburgh
Richard Roxburgh (born 1962, Albury, NSW) is an Australian actor, director and co-creator of Rake, known for Cleaver Greene, Blue Murder's Roger Rogerson, Moulin Rouge!, Van Helsing, and directing Romulus, My Father.
Richard S. Castellano
Richard S. Castellano (1933–1988), American character actor, Broadway Tony nominee, Oscar-nominated for Lovers and Other Strangers, played Peter Clemenza in The Godfather; distinct from Richard C. Castellano (1954–2015).
Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff (born 1955, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American character actor, Emmy winner in 2000 as Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, later Dr. Aaron Glassman on The Good Doctor; former off-Broadway director, husband of Sheila Kelley.
Richard Speight Jr.
Richard Speight Jr. (born 1970, Nashville) is an American actor and director known as Sgt. Skip Muck in Band of Brothers and Archangel Gabriel in Supernatural, where he also directed 11 episodes, and for Kings of Con.
Richard T. Jones
Richard T. Jones (Richard Timothy Jones, born 1972, Kobe, Japan) is an American actor known for Bruce Van Exel on Judging Amy, Slim in The Wood, Mike in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? films, and Wade Grey on ABC's The Rookie since 2018.
Richard Thomas (actor)
Richard Thomas (born 1951) is an American actor best known as John-Boy Walton in CBS's The Waltons, for which he won a 1973 Emmy; also It, The Americans, Ozark, and a seven-decade stage career with 2017 and 2026 Tony nominations.
Richard Todd
Richard Todd (1919-2009), Irish-born British actor and D-Day paratrooper; starred in The Hasty Heart, The Dam Busters as Guy Gibson, and The Longest Day as Major John Howard; declined Fleming's Bond role.
Richard Widmark
Richard Weedt Widmark (1914–2008), American actor; Oscar-nominated film debut as villain Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death (1947); noir star who became a Western and drama lead.
Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)
Richard Wilson (born Iain Carmichael Wilson, 9 July 1936, Greenock) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster, OBE, best known as Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave (1990-2000) and Gaius in Merlin.
Richie Moriarty
Richie Moriarty (born 1980) is an American actor, writer, and improviser from Rockville, Maryland, who plays ghost Pete Martino with an arrow through his neck on CBS's Ghosts.
Rick Gonzalez
Rick Gonzalez (born 1979, New York) is an American actor known as Timo Cruz in Coach Carter, Ben Gonzalez on Reaper, Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog on Arrow (76 episodes), and Detective Bobby Reyes on Law & Order: Organized Crime; distinct from Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez.