Richard Frank (1953 - 1995)

Actor. He is best remembered for playing the role of ‘Jules “Julie” Kramer/Bennett’ on the television series, “Anything But Love” from 1989 to 1992. He appeared in the films, “Cracked Up” (1987), “Amadeus” (1984), and “The Wall” (1982). He also appeared in the television shows, “Mad About You,” “Matlock,” “The Larry Sanders Show,” “Night Court,” […]

Richard Gary Brautigan (1935 - 1984)

Writer, poet, novelist. Works include “Revenge of the Lawn,” “The Abortion: A Historical Romance 1966,” “Trout Fishing In America,” “A Confederate General From Big Sur,” “Dreaming of Babylon,” and “So The Wind Won’t Blow It All Away.” Cause of death: suicide by gunshot to the head

Richard Greene (1918 - 1985)

Actor. Born in Plymouth, Devon, England. His father, Richard Abraham Greene and his mother, Kathleen Gerrard, were both actors with the Plymouth Repertory Theatre. Richard was educated at the CVMS in Kensington, London, and left at age 18. He started his stage career as the proverbial spear carrier in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in 1933. Richard […]

Richard Griffiths (1947 - 2013)

Actor. He will be best remembered for playing Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter’s saga and for the role of Uncle Monty in “Withnail and I”. He began his career as an actor from an early age playing roles very different from each and during his career that spanned more than four decades, he starred […]

Richard H. Carroll (1970 - 1970)

Riverboat captain.

Richard Hale (1892 - 1981)

Actor. Played Goro on Star Trek. Also in such TV shows as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and Petticoat Junction, among others.  Cause of death: Cardiac arrest

Richard Harris (1930 - 2002)

Harris, the sixth of nine children, was born in Limerick, Ireland into a middle-class, staunchly Roman Catholic family. His parents were Ivan John Harris (b. 1896, son of Richard Harris (b. 1854), son of James Harris of St. Michael’s, Limerick) and Mildred Josephine (Harty) Harris (b. 1898, daughter of James Harty, St. John’s, Limerick, who […]

Richard Harrison (1941 - 2018)

Richard Harrison Video clips of reality TV figure Richard Harrison played in a Las Vegas funeral home where the patriarch of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop empire was remembered as a Navy veteran, husband, father and sometimes cranky character. One showed a “Pawn Stars” episode where he prepared to drive through an obstacle course. […]

Richard Hatch (1945 - 2017)

Richard Hatch was born on May 21, 1945 in Santa Monica, California. While in high school, he’d been aspiring to become an athlete in pole vaulting, and only had a passing interest in acting, as he considered himself too shy and insecure. The assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, while Hatch had just started college, […]

Richard Hearne (1908 - 1979)

Richard Hearne was born in Norwich, Norfolk, in 1908, the son of Richard and Lily May Hearne. Richard senior came from a theatrical family – his mother had been on the stage and he himself was a performing acrobat. Hearne worked on and off for the BBC for thirty years; he became the first performer […]

Richard Henry Dana (1815 - 1882)

American writer and lawyer, best known in American literature for his book “Two Years Before the Mast”, based on the diary he kept while at sea.  First published in 1841, the book describes the lives of sailors in the ports and he gives close attention to the daily life of the peoples of California: Hispanic, […]

Richard Henyard (1974 - 2008)

On the evening of January 30, 1993, Dorothy Lewis and her daughters arrived at a Winn-Dixie supermarket in Eustis. As Lewis, the eventual survivor, and her daughters, the victims, entered the Winn-Dixie, she noticed a few people sitting on a bench near the doors. After Lewis exited the store with Jamilya, age 7, and Jasmine, […]

Richard I of England (1157 - 1199)

Richard was born on 8 September 1157, probably at Beaumont Palace, in Oxford, England, son of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was a younger brother of Count William IX of Poitiers, Henry the Young King and Duchess Matilda of Saxony. As the third legitimate son of King Henry II, he […]

Richard Irving Dodge (1827 - 1895)

United States Army Officer. He was a career army officer who served many years in the Western Plains, and participated in a number of the conflicts with the indigenous Indians. In 1882, he published “Our Wild Indians: Thirty Three Years Experience Among The Red Men Of The Great West, an acclaimed primary source about US […]

Richard James Biggs (1960 - 2004)

Actor. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Biggs is best remembered for his role as ‘Dr. Stephen Franklin’ on the television sci-fi series, “Babylon 5” from 1994 to 1998. He also appeared in “Days Of Our Lives” as ‘Marcus Hunter’ from 1987 to 1992, “Any Day Now” as ‘Bill Moody’ from 1998 to 1999, “The Guiding […]

Richard James McDonald (1909 - 1998)

Businessman. Along with his brother Maurice “Mac” McDonald, he founded the fast food restaurant chain “McDonald’s.”  Family links:  Spouse:  Dorothy E. Jones McDonald (1909 – 1999)* *Calculated relationship

Richard Jeni (1957 - 2007)

Richard Jeni was raised in an Italian-American Roman Catholic family in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He graduated with honors from Hunter College, earning a bachelor’s degree in comparative politics. After graduating, Jeni went on to do public relations work, but was let go from five different firms in two years before doing an open-mic night in Brooklyn […]

Richard Johnson (1927 - 2015)

Richard Johnson was born in Upminster, Essex, the son of Frances Louisa Olive (née Tweed) and Keith Holcombe Johnson. Johnson went to Felsted School, then trained at RADA and made his first professional appearances on stage in Manchester with John Gielgud’s company in a production of Hamlet in 1944. He served in the Royal Navy from […]

Richard Kiel (1939 - 2014)

Richard Kiel Richard Dawson Kiel (September 13, 1939 – September 10, 2014) was an American actor, voice artist, and comedian, best known for his role as Jaws in the James Bond franchise; he also had cameos in many other James Bond video games. He was also known for roles in The Longest Yard (1974), Silver […]

Richard Kyle Fox (1846 - 1922)

Newspaper Publisher.  He is considered the “Father of the Tabloid”. Born in Ireland, he worked as a journalist and newspaper editor there until he immigrated to the United States in 1874. He took over as owner and editor of “The National Police Gazette” in 1877 and made it one of the most widely-read newspapers in […]

Richard Lee Dorman (1922 - 2010)

American Architect, Author. Dorman, after a stint as a bomber for the Army in World War II, attended the University of Southern California where he graduated with a degree in Architecture in 1951. Upon graduation, he was invited to join Welton D. Becket’s firm where he went on to become the assistant director of design. […]

Richard Leland Bare (1913 - 2015)

Director. He was a director, producer, and screenwriter of television shows and short films. He directed The Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man”. He directed most episodes of the 1960s-1970s CBS television series Green Acres. Bare began his career in the 1940s at Warner Bros., where he was contracted to write and direct a collection […]

Richard M. Brewer (1850 - 1878)

Western Rancher and Lawman. On March 1, 1878, at the beginning of the Lincoln County War, New Mexico, he was appointed constable by the Magistrate. His group known as “The Regulators” included Billy the Kid and other deputies. There purpose was serving arrest warrants to members of the Dolan Gang for the ambush and murder […]

Richard Mann Allan (1923 - 1999)

Actor. Born in Jacksonville, Illinois. Born into a family of three siblings to a farmer. Richard began dance lessons at the age of seven. He began his career in 1945, in the Broadway show The Red Mill, he would later go on tour with them. In 1953 Marilyn Monroe personally picked him to play a […]

Richard Marner (1921 - 2004)

Born in Petrograd, Soviet Union, Molchanoff (nicknamed “Sacha” by his family) was the eldest son of Colonel Paul Molchanoff, of the Semyonovsky Regiment, one of two that were set up for children of children who had played with Peter the Great of Russia. In 1924, his entire family left Russia and went to Finland and […]

Richard Martin (1917 - 1994)

Though born in Spokane, Washington, Richard Martin’s family moved to a Mexican neighbourhood in West Hollywood, California, where he learned to imitate his friends. He began in films by working as a receptionist for MGM. When a friend made a bet with his agent that the agent couldn’t get Martin an actor’s contract, Martin’s agent […]

Richard Morris Hunt (1827 - 1895)

Distinguished architect, designer and influential taste-maker. One of five children of Jonathan Hunt, a prosperous lawyer and landowner, who served in Congress and in the House of Representatives in Washington. Richard was educated in the comfortable worlds of New Haven and Boston; receiving his architectural training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, being the […]

Richard Morris Hunt (1827 - 1895)

Distinguished architect, designer and influential taste-maker. One of five children of Jonathan Hunt, a prosperous lawyer and landowner, who served in Congress and in the House of Representatives in Washington. Richard was educated in the comfortable worlds of New Haven and Boston; receiving his architectural training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, being the […]

Richard Murdoch (1907 - 1990)

Richard Murdoch was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey, and Pembroke College, Cambridge University. Whilst at university he participated in the Footlights Dramatic Club’s performances. Richard Murdoch’s first appearance in cinema was as an un-credited dancing extra in 1932 film Looking on the Bright Side. In 1937 he was listed among the cast of the “Television […]

Richard Ney (1916 - 2004)

Ney was born in New York City, the son of Erwin Maximillian Ney and Charlotte Marie Donaldson. His father also married Rebie Margaret (Flood), daughter of the Rev. Theodore L. Flood, editor of The Chautauquan and Ruth Crosley Pardington, daughter of Arthur Rayner Pardington, of Lincoln Highway fame. Richard Ney was the father of Rick […]