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Rush Hour (1998 film)
Rush Hour is a 1998 American buddy-cop action comedy directed by Brett Ratner, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker as detectives rescuing the Chinese consul's kidnapped daughter.
Rush Hour (2000 film)
Rush Hour is a 1998 American action comedy directed by Brett Ratner, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, which earned over $244 million worldwide.
Rush Hour (franchise)
Rush Hour is an American action-comedy film franchise pairing Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker as mismatched cops, with films released in 1998, 2001, and 2007.
Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 2 (2001) is Brett Ratner's buddy action comedy sequel starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker as Lee and Carter investigating a Hong Kong embassy bombing tied to the Fu-Cang-Long Triad; it grossed $226.1 million in the US.
Rush Hour 3
Rush Hour 3, also known as Rush Hour III, is a 2007 American buddy cop action comedy directed by Brett Ratner, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in Paris.
Rush to the Dead Summer (夏至未至) (TV series)
Rush to the Dead Summer (夏至未至) is a 2017 Chinese youth romance drama, a 48-episode adaptation of Guo Jingming's novel about classmates from the fictional town of Qianchuan.
Rushmore (film)
Rushmore is a 1998 American coming-of-age comedy directed by Wes Anderson and co-written with Owen Wilson, starring Jason Schwartzman in his film debut and Bill Murray.
Ruslaan
Ruslaan (रुसलान), 2024 Hindi action thriller directed by Karan Lalit Butani, starring Aayush Sharma as a terrorist's son who joins RAW while posing as a music teacher; released 26 April 2024, a box-office failure with negative reviews.
Russ Abbot
Russ Abbot, born Russell Allan Roberts in 1947 in Chester, England, is a retired English comedian and actor whose 1980s Saturday-night sketch series drew 18 million viewers an episode.
Russ Meyer
Russ Meyer (Russell Albion Meyer, 1922-2004), American sexploitation filmmaker, director of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Vixen, and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls; independent producer, combat photographer, Playboy photographer, coined bosomania.
Russ Tamblyn
Russ Tamblyn, born Russell Irving Tamblyn in 1934, is an American actor best known as Riff in West Side Story (1961) and Dr. Jacoby in Twin Peaks.
Russell Brand
Russell Edward Brand (born 1975, Grays, Essex), English comedian, actor, radio host, and author; star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek, later YouTube/Rumble commentator; charged with rape and sexual assault in April 2025.
Russell Crowe
Russell Crowe (born 1964, Wellington, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born, Australian-raised actor who won the Best Actor Oscar for Gladiator (2000) and earned three consecutive nominations, later starring in A Beautiful Mind, The Loudest Voice, and Nuremberg.
Russell Hantz
Russell Hantz (Russell Dennis Hantz), American reality TV contestant on CBS's Survivor: Samoa, Heroes vs. Villains, Redemption Island, and Australian Survivor 2018; two-time finalist who never won, known for idol hunting and villain persona.
Russell Harvard
Russell Harvard (born 1981, Pasadena, Texas) is a third-generation Deaf American actor known for There Will Be Blood, The Hammer, Mr. Wrench on Fargo, Tribes (Theatre World Award), and Broadway's King Lear and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Russell Hornsby
Russell Hornsby (born 1974) is an American stage, film, and television actor known for Lincoln Heights, Grimm's Hank Griffin, Maverick Carter in The Hate U Give, and BMF, with August Wilson stage credits including Fences and Jitney.
Russell Howard
Russell Howard (born 1980) is a British stand-up comedian and TV presenter known for Mock the Week, Russell Howard's Good News, The Russell Howard Hour, and large-scale world comedy tours.
Russell Johnson
Russell Johnson (1924–2014), American character actor, played Professor Roy Hinkley on Gilligan's Island (1964–67, 98 episodes); WWII Army Air Forces veteran shot down over the Philippines; distinct from other people named Russell Johnson.
Russell Kane
Russell Kane, English stand-up comedian, actor, and writer; won the 2010 Edinburgh Comedy Award and Melbourne Barry Award, hosts the Evil Genius podcast, and tours the show HyperActive.
Russell Mulcahy
Russell Mulcahy (born 1953, Melbourne) is an Australian director known for MTV-era videos (Duran Duran, Elton John, "Video Killed the Radio Star"), the films Razorback and Highlander, and TV including Teen Wolf and Queer as Folk.
Russell Peters
Russell Peters (born Russell Dominic Peters, 1970), Canadian stand-up comedian. Broke out via his 2004 Comedy Now! special on YouTube; first comedian to sell out Toronto's Air Canada Centre (2007); Peabody and Emmy winner for Hip-Hop Evolution.
Russell T Davies
Russell T Davies (Stephen Russell Davies, born 1963) is a Welsh screenwriter, showrunner of Doctor Who (2005–2010 and 2022–2026), and creator of Queer as Folk, It's a Sin, and Tip Toe.
Russell Tovey
Russell Tovey, born 1981 in Billericay, Essex, is an English actor known for Being Human's George Sands, Rudge in The History Boys, Looking, and Years and Years, plus the Talk Art podcast.
Russell Wong
Russell Wong (born 1963) is the Chinese American actor of The Joy Luck Club and Vanishing Son, distinguished from several namesake professionals by his film career and MANAA award.
Russi Taylor
Russi Taylor (1944–2019) was an American voice actress who was the official voice of Minnie Mouse from 1986 until her death, and voiced characters on DuckTales and The Simpsons.
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone, or Зона травмы, is Adam Curtis's 2022 seven-part BBC iPlayer documentary built from BBC Moscow archive footage, narrated by block-capital captions, covering the Soviet collapse through Putin's rise.
Russian and Soviet theatre tradition
The Russian and Soviet theater tradition is a director-led lineage of theatrical practice running from 18th-century imperial court theaters to today's state-subsidized Russian theaters, shaped by ongoing state control.
Russian Ark (Русский ковчег)
Russian Ark (Русский ковчег), 2002 Alexander Sokurov film shot in one continuous 90-minute Steadicam take through 33 Hermitage rooms, first feature-length single-take narrative film, HD digital, Marquis de Custine guide.
Russian Doll (TV series)
Russian Doll is a Netflix comedy-drama (2019-2022, 2 seasons, 15 episodes) created by Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler, and Leslye Headland, in which Nadia Vulvokov repeatedly dies on her 36th birthday in a time loop; season 2 shifts to time travel and intergenerational trauma.
Russian political jokes
Russian political jokes, also called Soviet jokes or anekdoty, are humorous oral narratives satirizing Soviet rulers and everyday life; under Stalin roughly 200,000 people were imprisoned for telling them.