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Roy Harper (character)
Roy Harper, DC Comics archer created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp, debuted as Speedy in More Fun Comics #73 (1941); later Arsenal and Red Arrow, Teen Titans founder, known for the 1971 heroin-addiction story Snowbirds Don't Fly.
Roy Kinnear
Roy Mitchell Kinnear (1934–1988), English character actor and comedian, star of That Was the Week That Was, Mr. Salt in Willy Wonka, and Planchet in Lester's Musketeers films; died filming the 1989 sequel.
Roy Lee
Roy Lee (born 1969, Brooklyn) is a Korean-American producer, co-founder of Vertigo Entertainment, known for The Ring, The Grudge, The Departed, It, and A Minecraft Movie.
Roy Marsden
Roy Marsden, born Roy Anthony Mould (1941), is a British actor famous as Commander Adam Dalgliesh in the ITV Anglia Television adaptations of P.D. James novels (1983-1998), and as Neil Burnside in The Sandbaggers; he legally adopted the name Marsden in 2005.
Roy O. Disney
Roy O. Disney (1893-1971), Walt Disney's older brother and co-founder of the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923, was the company's financial manager, president 1945-1968, chairman 1964-1971, and builder of Walt Disney World.
Roy Redgrave
Roy Redgrave (George Ellsworthy Redgrave, 1873-1922), English-born stage and silent film actor in Australia, patriarch of the Redgrave acting dynasty, father of Michael, star of L'Aiglon and Robbery Under Arms (1920).
Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider (1932–2008), American actor, Police Chief Brody in Jaws, Oscar-nominated for The French Connection and All That Jazz; also Marathon Man, Sorcerer, seaQuest DSV; died of multiple myeloma.
Roy Thinnes
Roy Thinnes (born April 6, 1938, Chicago) is an American actor, best known as architect David Vincent in ABC's The Invaders (1967-68) and as Jeremiah Smith on The X-Files; also General Hospital, Falcon Crest, Dark Shadows.
Roy Walker (comedian)
Roy Walker (born 1940, Belfast) is a Northern Irish comedian, original host of ITV's Catchphrase 1986-1999, known for "Say what you see" and "It's good but it's not right"; New Faces winner 1977.
Royal (film)
Royal (ರಾಯಲ್) is a 2025 Kannada drama directed by Dinakar Thoogudeepa, starring Viraat and Sanjana Anand, released 24 January 2025; a conman saves his mother's SSF Company. It earned ₹1.07 crore worldwide and streamed on Prime Video from 7 March 2025.
Royal Dano
Royal Dano (Royal Edward Dano Sr., 1922–1994), American character actor of some 300 film and TV roles, known for westerns, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Right Stuff, and voicing Disney's animatronic Abraham Lincoln.
Royal Feast (尚食)
Royal Feast (尚食, Shang Shi) is a 2022 Chinese Ming-dynasty costume food drama on Mango TV, 40 episodes, starring Xu Kai and Wu Jinyan as Zhu Zhanji and Shangshi Bureau cook Yao Zijin; 1.894 billion views, Douban 5.5.
Royal Nirvana (鹤唳华亭)
Royal Nirvana (鹤唳华亭) is a 2019 Youku Chinese costume drama, 60 episodes, directed by Yang Wenjun from Xue Man Liang Yuan's novel, starring Luo Jin and Li Yitong, styled on Song dynasty ritual aesthetics and the Lu Ji crane-cry allusion.
Royal Pains
Royal Pains is a USA Network medical comedy-drama (2009-2016, eight seasons, 104 episodes) created by Andrew Lenchewski and John P. Rogers, starring Mark Feuerstein as disgraced ER doctor turned Hamptons concierge physician Hank Lawson of HankMed.
Royal Rumours (花琉璃轶闻)
Royal Rumours (花琉璃轶闻), formerly 造作时光, is a 2023 Chinese costume romantic-comedy web drama adapted from Yue Xia Die Ying's novel, starring Xu Zhengxi and Meng Ziyi; 24 episodes on Tencent Video, March 15–30, 2023, heat over 26,000, Douban 6.2.
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (王立宇宙軍 オネアミスの翼)
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (王立宇宙軍 オネアミスの翼) is GAINAX's 1987 debut anime film, directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, about Shirotsugh Lhadatt's first manned spaceflight in the Kingdom of Honneamise.
Royal Tramp (鹿鼎记)
Royal Tramp (鹿鼎记) is a 1992 Hong Kong comedy directed by Wong Jing, starring Stephen Chow and adapted from Jin Yong's novel The Deer and the Cauldron.
Royal Tramp II (鹿鼎记2神龙教)
Royal Tramp II (鹿鼎記II神龍教) is Wong Jing's 1992 Hong Kong wuxia comedy sequel to Royal Tramp, starring Stephen Chow as Wai Siu-bo opposite Brigitte Lin's Dragon Sect leader Lung Erh, adapted from Jin Yong's The Deer and the Cauldron and ranked fourth at the 1992 Hong Kong box office.
Royal Warriors
Royal Warriors (皇家戰士, Wong ga jin si) is a 1986 Hong Kong action film directed by David Chung for D&B Films, starring Michelle Yeoh, Michael Wong, and Hiroyuki Sanada; the second In the Line of Duty film, about cops hunted after foiling a hijacking.
Royal Wedding
Royal Wedding (1951) is an MGM musical, Stanley Donen's first solo film, starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell as a sibling dance act in London during Princess Elizabeth's wedding, famous for Astaire's rotating-room ceiling dance and the Oscar-nominated song "Too Late Now."
Royalties (2020 TV series)
Royalties is a 2020 Quibi musical comedy created by Darren Criss, starring Criss and Kether Donohue as songwriters Pierce and Sara; ten 8-minute episodes directed by Amy Heckerling, canceled after one season, later a Roku Original.
Royce Pierreson
Royce Pierreson (born 1989, Saltash, Cornwall) is an English actor known for Reece in Murdered by My Boyfriend, Istredd in The Witcher, and Dr Watson in The Irregulars; also a producer via Another Method.
Roz Doyle
Roz Doyle is the fictional radio producer of The Dr. Frasier Crane Show on KACL 780AM in the sitcom Frasier (1993-2004), played by Peri Gilpin. Named after the real Wings producer Roz Doyle who died in 1991; Lisa Kudrow was recast; Roz rose to KACL station manager and returned in the 2023 Paramount+ revival.
Roz Kelly
Roz Kelly, born Rosalind Schwartz in 1943 in Mount Vernon, New York, is an American actress best known as Pinky Tuscadero on Happy Days and for the horror film New Year's Evil (1980).
Rozen Maiden (ローゼンメイデン)
Rozen Maiden (ローゼンメイデン), Peach-Pit's gothic fantasy manga about hikikomori Jun Sakurada and Shinku in the Alice Game; serialized 2002-2007 in Comic Birz, 2008-2014 in Weekly Young Jump, with a prequel Rozen Maiden 0, four anime series, and a 2025 Seven Seas Collector's Edition.
RRR
RRR (Roudram Ranam Rudhiram; Rise Roar Revolt) is S.S. Rajamouli's 2022 Telugu epic starring Jr NTR and Ram Charan as revolutionaries Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju; its song Naatu Naatu won the first Oscar for an Indian feature film.
Ruaridh Mollica
Scottish-Italian actor Ruaridh Mollica (Ruaridh Silvio James MacGillivray-Mollica), born 1999 in Prato, Italy, raised in Edinburgh; lead of Sebastian (Sundance 2024), The Franchise, Sexy Beast, Marvel's VisionQuest.
Rubber (2010 film)
Rubber is a 2010 absurdist horror-comedy film by Quentin Dupieux about a sentient tire in the California desert that kills people by making their heads explode.
Rubber hose animation
Rubber hose animation, also called rubber hose art, is the jointless, elastic-limbed cartoon style dominant in 1920s and early 1930s American animation, credited to Bill Nolan, exemplified by Steamboat Willie and Fleischer's Betty Boop, and revived in Cuphead.
Rubber Hut
Rubber Hut is an upcoming American drama film written and directed by Hanna Gray Organschi, starring Grace Van Patten as a drive-thru condom seller in 1992 Rhode Island.