Richard O'Brien
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English actor, writer, musician, and television presenter
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
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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,333x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,223x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,643x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,248x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,565x
via Crossref · CC0
Works in European collections
12 objects attributed to Richard O'Brien, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
