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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 Gere
Richard Gere (Richard Tiffany Gere, born 1949, Philadelphia) is an American actor and Tibetan Buddhist activist, star of American Gigolo, An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, and Chicago, with a Golden Globe and no Oscar nomination.
Richard Gibson
Richard Gibson (born 1954, Kampala, Uganda) is the British actor who played Gestapo officer Herr Otto Flick in BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! (1982–1992, series 1–8), later a voice artist and podcaster; distinct from other people named Richard Gibson.
Richard Gilliland
Richard Gilliland (1950-2021), American character actor from Fort Worth, Texas; played J.D. Shackelford on Designing Women, where he met wife Jean Smart; also Operation Petticoat, The Waltons, Just Our Luck.
Richard Gomez
Richard Gomez (Richard Frank Icasiano Gomez, born 1966, Manila) is a Filipino actor, épée fencer, and politician, Leyte 4th district representative since 2022 and former Ormoc City mayor, known for Hihintayin Kita sa Langit and The Janitor.
Richard Greene
Richard Greene (Richard Marius Joseph Greene, 1918-1985), English actor born in Plymouth, star of 143 episodes of The Adventures of Robin Hood (ITV 1955-59) and over 40 films including The Hound of the Baskervilles; 27th Lancers officer in World War II.
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 Grieco
Richard Grieco (born 1965, Watertown, New York) is an American actor known as Officer Dennis Booker on 21 Jump Street and its spin-off Booker, later an indie film actor, director, and musician.
Richard Griffiths
Richard Thomas Griffiths (1947–2013) was an English actor of stage, film, and television, known for Hector in The History Boys (Tony and Olivier Awards), Uncle Monty in Withnail & I, and Vernon Dursley in five Harry Potter films.
Richard Gutierrez
Richard Gutierrez (Richard Kristian Rama Gutierrez), born 1984 in Los Angeles, is a Filipino-American actor and son of Eddie Gutierrez and Annabelle Rama; GMA fantasy-era star of Mulawin and Captain Barbell, later ABS-CBN action leads The Iron Heart, Incognito, and Blood vs Duty.
Richard Hammond
Richard Hammond, born 1969 in Solihull, is an English TV presenter nicknamed "the Hamster", co-host of Top Gear (2002-2015) and The Grand Tour (2016-2024) with Clarkson and May, survivor of a 2006 jet-dragster crash at Elvington and a 2017 Rimac crash, and founder of Chimp Productions.
Richard Harrington (actor)
Richard Harrington (born 1975, Merthyr Tydfil) is a Welsh actor, BAFTA Cymru winner for DCI Tom Mathias in Y Gwyll/Hinterland, also known for Poldark, Bleak House, Gangs of London, and Havoc.
Richard Harris
Richard Harris (1930–2002), Irish actor from Limerick; Cannes Best Actor and Oscar nominee for This Sporting Life and The Field, King Arthur in Camelot, singer of "MacArthur Park", Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator, and the first Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films.
Richard Harrow
Richard Harrow is the disfigured World War I sniper and hitman of HBO's Boardwalk Empire, played by Jack Huston, half his face hidden by a tin mask; introduced in season 1, promoted to series regular, killed in the season 4 finale.
Richard Hatch (actor)
Richard Hatch (1945-2017), American actor; Captain Apollo in original Battlestar Galactica (1978-79) and Tom Zarek in the Syfy reboot (2004-2009); also All My Children and The Streets of San Francisco.
Richard Hatch (Survivor contestant)
Richard Holman Hatch Jr. (born 1961) is the winner of Survivor: Borneo, the first US Survivor season, known for inventing the voting-alliance strategy and for a 51-month tax evasion sentence over his $1,000,000 prize.
Richard Haydn
Richard Haydn (George Richard Haydon, 1905-1985), British character actor noted for a nasal, pompous manner; played Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music, voiced the Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland (1951), and appeared in Ball of Fire and Young Frankenstein.
Richard Herd
Richard Herd (1932-2020), American character actor from Boston; played Mr. Wilhelm on Seinfeld, Supreme Commander John in V, Captain Sheridan on T.J. Hooker, and Admiral Owen Paris in Star Trek: Voyager.
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 Jaeckel
Richard Hanley Jaeckel (1926–1997), American character actor of war films and westerns; Oscar-nominated for Sometimes a Great Notion; played Sgt. Bowren in The Dirty Dozen and Lt. Ben Edwards on Baywatch.
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 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 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 Keith (actor)
Richard Keith is the stage name of Keith Thibodeaux (born 1950), American actor and drummer, the last surviving I Love Lucy cast member as Little Ricky, later of The Andy Griffith Show, the band David and the Giants, and Ballet Magnificat.
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.