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Richard Mulligan
Richard Mulligan (1932-2000), American comic character actor, Emmy winner as Burt Campbell in Soap and Dr. Harry Weston in Empty Nest; brother of director Robert Mulligan.
Richard Ney
Richard Ney (1916-2004), American actor and investment adviser; played Vin Miniver in Mrs. Miniver (1942), married Greer Garson 1943-1947, then wrote The Wall Street Jungle and predicted the 1962 crash.
Richard Norton (actor)
Richard Norton (1950-2025), Australian martial artist, actor, and fight choreographer; co-creator of Zen Do Kai; villain in The Octagon and Hong Kong films with Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung; Prime Imperator in Mad Max films.
Richard O'Brien
Richard O'Brien (Richard Timothy Smith, born 1942, Cheltenham) is an English-New Zealand actor and writer who created The Rocky Horror Show (1973), played Riff Raff in the 1975 film, and hosted The Crystal Maze.
Richard O'Sullivan
Richard O'Sullivan (1944-2026), British comic actor and former child star, played Robin Tripp in Man About the House and Robin's Nest, Dick Turpin, and Me and My Girl; his sitcom format inspired Three's Company.
Richard Osman
Richard Osman (born 1970, Billericay) is a British TV presenter, producer, and novelist: Creative Director at Endemol UK, accidental co-host of Pointless, host of House of Games, author of The Thursday Murder Club series.
Richard Osman's House of Games
Richard Osman's House of Games is a BBC Two celebrity quiz show launched 4 September 2017, hosted by Richard Osman through Series 9 and then Michael Sheen, with five rounds daily, Double Points Friday, and novelty prizes.
Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor (1940–2005), American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Peoria, Illinois; five Grammys, first Mark Twain Prize, Live in Concert (1979), Blazing Saddles co-writer.
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert is a 1979 concert film of Pryor's December 29, 1978 Terrace Theater show in Long Beach, directed by Jeff Margolis, grossing over $30 million and entering the National Film Registry in 2021.
Richard Rankin
Richard Rankin (born 1983, birth name Richard Harris) is a Scottish actor known as Roger Wakefield MacKenzie in Outlander, the lead in BBC's Rebus, Burnistoun, and narrator of the 2026 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
Richard Ridings
Richard Ridings (born 1958, Henley-on-Thames) is an English actor, the voice of Daddy Pig in Peppa Pig (2004–2025) and Mr. Bumble in Dickensian; also seen in Erik the Viking and The Pianist.
Richard Rishi
Richard Rishi (Richard Sharaf Babu) is an Indian actor in Tamil and Telugu cinema, a former child artist whose leads include Kadhal Virus, Draupathi, Rudra Thandavam, and Veera Simha Kadavarayan in Draupathi 2 (2026).
Richard Rodgers Theatre
Richard Rodgers Theatre, formerly Chanin's 46th Street Theatre and 46th Street Theatre, is a 1,319-seat Nederlander Broadway house at 226 West 46th Street, built 1924 by Herbert J. Krapp for the Chanins, landmarked, home of Hamilton.
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper (born 1959) is a Chicago film critic and columnist, co-host of Ebert & Roeper (2000-2008), longtime Chicago Sun-Times columnist until 2025, now at RogerEbert.com and NBC 5 Chicago.
Richard Roma
Richard (Ricky) Roma is the top real estate salesman in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, first played by Jack Shepherd in 1983 and Joe Mantegna on Broadway in 1984, and by Al Pacino in the 1992 film.
Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree (1942-2023), American actor, played Detective John Shaft in Shaft (1971), becoming one of the first Black action heroes; also Roots, Se7en, and the 2000 and 2019 Shaft films.
Richard Roxburgh
Richard Roxburgh (born 1962, Albury, NSW) is an Australian actor, director and co-creator of Rake, known for Cleaver Greene, Blue Murder's Roger Rogerson, Moulin Rouge!, Van Helsing, and directing Romulus, My Father.
Richard S. Castellano
Richard S. Castellano (1933–1988), American character actor, Broadway Tony nominee, Oscar-nominated for Lovers and Other Strangers, played Peter Clemenza in The Godfather; distinct from Richard C. Castellano (1954–2015).
Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff (born 1955, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American character actor, Emmy winner in 2000 as Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, later Dr. Aaron Glassman on The Good Doctor; former off-Broadway director, husband of Sheila Kelley.
Richard Speight Jr.
Richard Speight Jr. (born 1970, Nashville) is an American actor and director known as Sgt. Skip Muck in Band of Brothers and Archangel Gabriel in Supernatural, where he also directed 11 episodes, and for Kings of Con.
Richard Stanley (director)
Richard Stanley (born 1966) is a South African cult film director of Hardware (1990), Dust Devil (1992), and Color Out of Space (2019), known for his firing from The Island of Dr. Moreau and his myth-focused documentaries.
Richard Steven Horvitz
Richard Steven Horvitz (born 1966, Los Angeles) is an American actor and voice director known as Zim in Invader Zim, Billy in Billy & Mandy, Daggett, Alpha 5, Raz in Psychonauts, and Moxxie in Helluva Boss.
Richard T. Jones
Richard T. Jones (Richard Timothy Jones, born 1972, Kobe, Japan) is an American actor known for Bruce Van Exel on Judging Amy, Slim in The Wood, Mike in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? films, and Wade Grey on ABC's The Rookie since 2018.
Richard Thomas (actor)
Richard Thomas (born 1951) is an American actor best known as John-Boy Walton in CBS's The Waltons, for which he won a 1973 Emmy; also It, The Americans, Ozark, and a seven-decade stage career with 2017 and 2026 Tony nominations.
Richard Todd
Richard Todd (1919-2009), Irish-born British actor and D-Day paratrooper; starred in The Hasty Heart, The Dam Busters as Guy Gibson, and The Longest Day as Major John Howard; declined Fleming's Bond role.
Richard Webber
Richard Webber is a fictional general surgeon on Grey's Anatomy, played by James Pickens Jr. since 2005, serving as Chief of Surgery at Seattle Grace Hospital.
Richard White (actor)
Richard White (born 1953, Oak Ridge, Tennessee) is an American Broadway baritone and voice actor, the original voice of Gaston in Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast; also created Erik in Kopit/Yeston's Phantom and voiced Whisper in King's Quest. Distinct from the South African and Australian actors of the same name.
Richard Whiteley
Richard Whiteley (John Richard Whiteley, 1943-2005) was the British presenter who hosted Countdown from Channel 4's 2 November 1982 launch, its first face on air, after 27 years on Yorkshire TV's Calendar; OBE 2004, mayor of Wetwang.
Richard Widmark
Richard Weedt Widmark (1914–2008), American actor; Oscar-nominated film debut as villain Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death (1947); noir star who became a Western and drama lead.
Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)
Richard Wilson (born Iain Carmichael Wilson, 9 July 1936, Greenock) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster, OBE, best known as Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave (1990-2000) and Gaius in Merlin.