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Richard O'Brien
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English actor, writer, musician, and television presenter
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Vinony's link graph records 265 inbound references to Richard O'Brien, and connects out to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Flash Gordon and list of Phineas and Ferb characters.
It is catalogued under topics including 1942 births, 20th-century English LGBTQ people and 21st-century English LGBTQ people.
Vinony links it to 23 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 62
Top works
- Message from the President of the United States, communicating the copy of a letter from Richard O'Brien, late Consul of the United States, at Algiers
- Official Rocky Horror Late Night Double Feature
- Faith in the Scottish city
- CJ and the Angel Kids
- It's Like This
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Richard O'Brien (born Richard Timothy Smith, 25 March 1942) is an English actor, television presenter, writer and theatre performer, best known for writing the stage musical The Rocky Horror Show (1973), famously adapted into a film in 1975, the longest-running theatrical release in history. O'Brien was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. In 1951, the family emigrated to Tauranga, New…
Known for
- Tiny Little Voices2025
- Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror — Self2025
- Rocky Horror 45: The Movie — Self2021
- Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe — Lawrence Fletcher (voice)2020
- The Stolen — Mr. Russell2017
- Life After Flash — Self2017
- Rocky Horror Show Live — Narrator2015
- Phineas and Ferb: Last Day of Summer — Lawrence (voice)2015
- Phineas and Ferb: Night of the Living Pharmacists — Lawrence Fletcher (voice)2014
- Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars — Lawrence Fletcher / Additional Voices (voice)2014
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1942-03-25
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 274,466
- Total plays
- 3,439,949
Tags
Richard O'Brien (born Richard Timothy Smith on March 25, 1942 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK) is a writer and performer. He is best known for writing the musical The Rocky Horror Show and its 1975 film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in which he played the character of Riff-Raff. The stage show has been in almost continuous production since, and the cinematic version is one of the best known and most ardently followed cult films of all time. He is also responsible for the little-k
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- O'Brien
- Gender
- non-binary
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of birth
- Cheltenham
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- The Rocky Horror Show
- Image
- Richard O Brien by Stuart Mentiply.jpg
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- Commons category
- Richard O'Brien
- date of birth
- 1942-03-25
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- P12674
- Heinrich Glarean
- name in native language
- Richard O'Brien
Sources (8)
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Works in European collections
12 objects attributed to Richard O'Brien, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
