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Rod Roddy
Rod Roddy (Robert Ray Roddy, 1937-2003) was an American game show announcer, famous for The Price Is Right (1986-2003), Soap, Press Your Luck, Love Connection, and his Thai silk jackets.
Rod Serling
Rod Serling (1924–1975), American screenwriter and creator, host, and principal writer of The Twilight Zone (1959–1964); also known for Playhouse 90's Patterns, Night Gallery, Planet of the Apes, and record Emmy wins for dramatic writing.
Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger (1925-2002), American Method actor; won the Best Actor Oscar as Sheriff Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (1967); known for On the Waterfront, The Pawnbroker, Doctor Zhivago.
Rod Taylor
Rod Taylor (Rodney Sturt Taylor, 1930-2015), Australian-born Hollywood leading man of The Time Machine (1960), Hitchcock's The Birds (1963), and the voice of Pongo in 101 Dalmatians; final role as Churchill in Inglourious Basterds.
Roddy McDowall
Roddy McDowall (Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall, 1928-1998), English-born actor and photographer; child star of How Green Was My Valley, played Cornelius and Caesar in Planet of the Apes, published the Double Exposure photography books.
Rodger Bumpass
Rodger Bumpass, also known as Rodger Albert Bumpass, is an American voice actor born in 1951 who has voiced Squidward Tentacles on SpongeBob SquarePants since 1999.
Rodger Corser
Rodger Corser (born 1973, Melbourne) is an Australian actor and producer, lead in Rent, Underbelly, Rush, Doctor Doctor (Dr Hugh Knight), and Thai Cave Rescue; host of The Traitors Australia and The Floor.
Rodman Flender
Rodman Flender (born 1962, New York City) is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. Directed The Unborn, Leprechaun 2, Idle Hands, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, and Eat, Brains, Love; uncle of Timothée Chalamet.
Rodney A. Grant
Rodney A. Grant (Rodney Arnold Grant, born 1959) is an Omaha-tribe American actor, best known as Wind In His Hair in Dances with Wolves, with Western roles such as Crazy Horse and Mangas.
Rodney Bewes
Rodney Bewes (1937-2017), English actor, played Bob Ferris in The Likely Lads (1964-66) and its sequel (1973-74) with James Bolam; also created Dear Mother... Love Albert and toured one-man shows.
Rodney Dangerfield
Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen, 1921-2004), American stand-up comedian and actor famous for "I don't get no respect"; opened Dangerfield's club, starred in Caddyshack, Easy Money, and Back to School, won a 1981 Grammy.
Rodolfo Gucci
Rodolfo Gucci (Maurizio D'Ancora), Italian film actor and businessman, youngest son of Gucci founder Guccio Gucci; joined the family firm after WWII, ran its Italian operations, and died in 1983 leaving half of Gucci to his son Maurizio.
Rodrigo de la Serna
Rodrigo de la Serna (Lionel Rodrigo de la Serna, born 1976) is an Argentine actor and musician, star of Okupas, Alberto Granado in The Motorcycle Diaries, and Palermo in Money Heist.
Rodrigo Santoro
Rodrigo Santoro (Rodrigo Junqueira dos Reis Santoro), born 1975 in Petrópolis, is a Brazilian actor known for Brainstorm, Carandiru, Xerxes in 300, Lost, Westworld, and the Venice-honored 7 Prisoners.
Roger Allam
Roger Allam (born 1953, Bow, London) is a British stage, TV, film, and radio actor, three-time Olivier winner, originating Javert in Les Misérables 1985; known for Peter Mannion in The Thick of It, Fred Thursday in Endeavour, and Cabin Pressure's Douglas Richardson.
Roger Avary
Roger Avary (born 1965) is a Canadian-born screenwriter, director, and producer who shared the 1994 Best Original Screenplay Oscar with Quentin Tarantino for Pulp Fiction, directed Killing Zoe and The Rules of Attraction, and hosts the Video Archives Podcast.
Roger Bart
Roger Bart (born 1962, Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American stage and screen actor and singer; Tony winner as Snoopy (1999), Tony nominee for The Producers and Back to the Future, singing voice of young Hercules, and Doc Brown's originator on stage.
Roger Bowen
Roger Wendell Bowen (1932–1996), American comedic actor and novelist, co-founder of the Compass Players and The Second City, best known as Lt. Col. Henry Blake in the 1970 film MASH; author of eleven novels.
Roger C. Carmel
Roger C. Carmel (1932-1986), American character actor, played Harry Mudd in Star Trek's 'Mudd's Women' and 'I, Mudd', voiced him in the Animated Series, starred in The Mothers-in-Law, and voiced Cyclonus and Smokey Bear.
Roger Clinton Jr.
Roger Clinton Jr. (born 1956, Hot Springs, Arkansas) is an American actor and musician, younger half-brother of President Bill Clinton; served prison time for cocaine, was pardoned, released the album Nothing Good Comes Easy, and acted in Fred Claus and Spy Hard.
Roger Craig Smith
Roger Craig Smith (born 1975) is an American voice actor and former stand-up comic, the long-running English voice of Sonic the Hedgehog since 2010 and the voice of Ezio Auditore, Batman (Arkham Origins), Chris Redfield, Kyle Crane, and Mirage.
Roger Cross
Roger Cross (Roger R. Cross), born 1969 in Christiana, Jamaica, is a Jamaican-Canadian actor known for Curtis Manning on 24, Travis Verta on Continuum, Six on Dark Matter, and Donovan McAvoy on Coroner; not the footballer or the Yorkshire Post crime reporter of the same name.
Roger Davis (television actor)
Roger Davis (Jon Roger Davis, born April 5, 1939) is an American TV actor known for Dark Shadows (1968–70, 128 episodes) and for replacing Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes in Alias Smith and Jones; later a California real estate developer.
Roger Donaldson
Roger Donaldson (born 1945, Ballarat, Australia) is a New Zealand film director and producer. His debut Sleeping Dogs (1977) launched the NZ film industry and Sam Neill; later Hollywood work includes No Way Out, Cocktail, Species, and Thirteen Days.
Roger E. Mosley
Roger E. Mosley (1938-2022), American actor who played helicopter pilot Theodore 'T.C.' Calvin in 158 episodes of Magnum, P.I. (1980-1988); also starred as Lead Belly in Gordon Parks's 1976 biopic and coached L.A. track athletes.
Roger Guenveur Smith
Roger Guenveur Smith (born 1959, Berkeley, California) is an American actor and solo performer known for A Huey P. Newton Story, the Smiley role in Do the Right Thing, and Spike Lee collaborations.
Roger Howarth
Roger Howarth is an American soap opera actor born in 1968, best known as Todd Manning on One Life to Live, for which he won a 1994 Daytime Emmy.
Roger L. Jackson
Roger L. Jackson, full name Roger Labon Jackson, is an American voice actor known as the voice of Ghostface in Scream and Mojo Jojo in The Powerpuff Girls.
Roger Livesey
Roger Livesey (1906–1976), Welsh-born British stage and film actor, starred in Powell and Pressburger's Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going!, and A Matter of Life and Death; husband of Ursula Jeans.
Roger Lloyd-Pack
Roger Lloyd-Pack (Roger Lloyd Pack, 1944–2014) was an English character actor, Trigger in Only Fools and Horses, Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley, and Barty Crouch in Harry Potter, also a left-wing campaigner.