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Richard Hy
Richard Hy, online as Angry Cops, is an American YouTuber, Army drill sergeant, and Buffalo Police detective known for drill-sergeant satire, Fort Polk toxic-leadership commentary, and a 2024 AG misconduct finding.
Richard II (play)
Richard II is a history play by William Shakespeare, written in the mid-1590s, dramatizing the downfall of King Richard II at the hands of his cousin Henry Bolingbroke.
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 Jeni
Richard Jeni (Richard John Colangelo, 1957-2007), American stand-up comedian and actor from Brooklyn; Showtime and HBO specials including Platypus Man, CableACE winner, The Mask co-star, died by suicide in 2007.
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 Kiley
Richard Paul Kiley (1922-1999), American stage, television, and film actor and baritone singer; two-time Tony winner, best known as the original Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha and the first to sing The Impossible Dream, also an Emmy-winning TV actor and documentary narrator.
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 Lawson (actor)
Richard Lawson (actor) is an American actor born 1947 in Loma Linda, California, known for Poltergeist, V, Dynasty, All My Children, and Beauty in Black; Vietnam veteran, acting teacher, and founder of Richard Lawson Studios.
Richard Lester
Richard Lester (Richard Lester Liebman, born 1932, Philadelphia), US-born British-based film director of the Beatles films A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965), also The Three Musketeers, Petulia, and Superman II and III; retired 1991.
Richard Lewis (comedian)
Richard Lewis (1947–2024), American stand-up comedian and actor nicknamed the Prince of Pain, star of Anything But Love and Larry David's foil on Curb Your Enthusiasm; specials I'm in Pain, I'm Exhausted, I'm Doomed.
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 Linklater
Richard Linklater, Austin, Texas-based American director of Slacker, Dazed and Confused, the Before trilogy, School of Rock, and the 12-year Boyhood, known for experiments with cinematic time.
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 Lynch
Richard Hugh Lynch (1940–2012, some sources 1936) was an American character actor famous for villain roles in horror and sci-fi films like The Sword and the Sorcerer, Invasion U.S.A., and Halloween, scarred by a 1967 LSD-related fire.
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 Madeley
Richard Madeley, English TV presenter, journalist and novelist, one half of 'Richard and Judy' with wife Judy Finnigan; hosted ITV's This Morning (1988-2001), Channel 4's Richard & Judy, and Good Morning Britain; known for Alan Partridge comparisons and novels like Father's Day.
Richard Marquand
Richard Marquand, full name Richard Alfred Marquand, was a Welsh film and television director best known for Return of the Jedi (1983) and Jagged Edge (1985).
Richard McCabe
Richard McCabe (born 1960) is a Scottish actor and RSC Associate Artist who won the 2013 Olivier Award and 2015 Tony Award for playing Harold Wilson in The Audience alongside Helen Mirren.
Richard McCourt
Richard McCourt (born 1976, Sheffield), known as Dick of Dick and Dom with Dominic Wood, is an English children's TV presenter, host of Dick and Dom in da Bungalow (2002–2006), double BAFTA winner, later actor, DJ, and author.
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.