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Round the Twist
Round the Twist: Australian children's comedy series (ACTF, 1990–2000, 52 episodes) adapting Paul Jennings' short stories about the Twist family in a haunted lighthouse at Port Niranda; BBC hit averaging 5 million viewers, recast across four series, later a musical.
Rounders (film)
Rounders is a 1998 American drama directed by John Dahl, written by Koppelman and Levien, starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton as underground New York poker players; a box office disappointment that became a cult classic credited with fueling the poker boom.
Roundhay Garden Scene
Roundhay Garden Scene is a roughly two-second 1888 film by Louis Le Prince, shot at Oakwood Grange, Roundhay, Leeds, showing Adolphe Le Prince, Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley, and Harriet Hartley; the oldest surviving film.
Route 66 (TV series)
Route 66 is an American drama series broadcast on CBS from 1960 to 1964, following two young men traveling the United States in a Corvette.
Rove McManus
Rove McManus (John Henry Michael McManus, born 1974) is an Australian comedian, presenter, and producer, three-time Gold Logie winner, host of Rove Live 1999-2009, and founder of Roving Enterprises, producer of The Project.
Rover Dangerfield
Rover Dangerfield (1991) is a G-rated animated musical comedy starring Rodney Dangerfield as the voice of a Las Vegas showgirl's dog dumped off Hoover Dam who lands on a farm; Hyperion Pictures production for Warner Bros., limited release, 17% Tomatometer.
Row K Entertainment
Row K Entertainment is a US theatrical film distributor launched August 26, 2025 by Media Capital Technologies, led by Megan Colligan, known for its roughly $80 million TIFF 2025 acquisitions and its troubled 2026 releases.
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (also Laugh-In): NBC American comedy-variety sketch show, January 22, 1968 to 1973, hosted by Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, produced by George Schlatter; highest-rated late-1960s series, famous for catchphrases, Nixon's 1968 cameo, and influencing Saturday Night Live.
Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson (born 1955, Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English actor and comedian, an electrical engineering master's graduate of Oxford, known for Mr Bean, Blackadder, Not the Nine O'Clock News, and the Johnny English spy spoofs.
Rowan Atkinson filmography
Rowan Atkinson filmography: screen credits of the English comic actor (born 1955) from Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979) through Blackadder, Mr Bean, Bean, the Johnny English films, Maigret, and Man vs Baby (2025).
Rowan Blanchard
Rowan Blanchard (born 2001, Los Angeles) is an American actress known as Riley Matthews on Girl Meets World (2014–2017) and later as Alexandra Cavill in Snowpiercer and Shunammite in The Testaments; also a writer and activist.
Rowan Robinson
Rowan Robinson is an English actress from Salford, a 2022 RADA graduate known for A Haunting in Venice (2023) and roles in Passenger, Brassic, and A Cruel Love.
Rowdy Rathore
Rowdy Rathore is a 2012 Hindi action comedy directed by Prabhu Deva, starring Akshay Kumar as both a Mumbai thief and a police officer, with Sonakshi Sinha.
Rowell Santiago
Rowell Santiago (Rowell Joseph Legaspi Santiago, born 1963) is a Filipino actor and director, known for Tanging Yaman, Ang Probinsyano, the A Very Special Love films, and directing Paikot-Ikot, Forever, and Luv Text.
Rowlf the Dog
Rowlf the Dog: piano-playing brown dog Muppet built in 1962 by Don Sahlin to Jim Henson's design for Purina Dog Chow commercials; first nationally known Muppet star on The Jimmy Dean Show (1963–1966), later The Muppet Show's resident pianist and Dr. Bob; performed by Henson, then Bill Barretta.
Roxann Dawson
Roxann Dawson, also credited as Roxann Biggs-Dawson, is an American actress, director, and writer known for B'Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager and for directing Breakthrough, Foundation, and many TV series.
Roxanne (film)
Roxanne is a 1987 American romantic comedy directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah, adapted from Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac.
Roxanne McKee
Roxanne McKee (born 1980) is a British actress and model known as Louise Summers in Hollyoaks and Doreah in Game of Thrones, later lead in Dominion and Strike Back.
Roxanne Pallett
Roxanne Pallett (Roxanne Kaboli-Nejad, born 1982, Carlisle), also Roxanne Carrion, English actress who played Jo Stiles/Sugden in Emmerdale 2005–2008; later Dancing on Ice, horror films, and the 2018 Celebrity Big Brother punch row with Ryan Thomas.
Roxanne Roxanne
Roxanne Roxanne is a 2017 biographical drama directed by Michael Larnell about rapper Roxanne Shanté, the 14-year-old Queensbridge battle rapper behind 1984's "Roxanne's Revenge"; it premiered at Sundance and streamed on Netflix from March 23, 2018.
Roxy Mitchell
Roxy Mitchell (Roxanne Mitchell) is a fictional EastEnders character played by Rita Simons 2007–2017, sister of Ronnie, mother of Amy by Jack Branning, drowned on 1 January 2017, with cameo returns in 2019 and 2023.
Roxy Sternberg
Roxy Sternberg (Roxanne Sternberg), British actress born 1989 in London, lives in Brooklyn; best known as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes on CBS's FBI: Most Wanted (2020–2025), with roles in MARS, Emerald City, Absentia, and BBC's Famalam.
Roy (film)
Roy (रॉय) is a 2015 Hindi romantic drama, Vikramjit Singh's directorial debut, starring Ranbir Kapoor as thief Roy, Arjun Rampal as filmmaker Kabir Grewal, and Jacqueline Fernandez; a T-Series production that flopped despite a strong opening.
Roy Barraclough
Roy Barraclough (1935-2017), English comic actor, played Cissie opposite Les Dawson's Ada and Alec Gilroy, Rovers Return landlord in Coronation Street, 1986-1998; MBE 2006.
Roy Castle
Roy Castle (1932-1994), English entertainer, jazz trumpeter and long-running presenter of BBC's Record Breakers from 1972; broke nine world records, died of lung cancer as a non-smoker, namesake of the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.
Roy Clarke
Roy Clarke (born Royston Clarke, 28 January 1930) is an English sitcom writer who wrote all 295 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine and created Open All Hours, Keeping Up Appearances, and Still Open All Hours; OBE 2002, knighted 2026.
Roy Cropper
Roy Cropper (Royston Cropper) is a fictional Coronation Street cafe owner played by David Neilson since 19 July 1995; owner of Roy's Rolls, husband of Hayley Patterson, known for his anorak, honesty, and Humanist values.
Roy Dotrice
Roy Dotrice (1923–2017), British character actor, Tony winner for A Moon for the Misbegotten, record-holder for 1,782 performances of Brief Lives, and narrator of the A Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks with a Guinness-record 224 voices in A Game of Thrones.
Roy Dupuis
Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor born 1963 in New Liskeard, Ontario; star of Les filles de Caleb, La Femme Nikita, The Rocket, and Shake Hands with the Devil as Roméo Dallaire.
Roy E. Disney
Roy E. Disney, born Roy Edward Disney, was an American executive and film producer who led the Disney animation revival and the campaign that ousted Michael Eisner.