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Richard Lewis

Actor, Writer, Additional Credits
Died February 27, 2024 (76 years)
Richard Philip Lewis (June 29, 1947 – February 27, 2024) was an American actor, writer, and stand-up comedian. He came to prominence in the 1980s and became known for his dark, neurotic and self-deprecating humor.

As an actor he was known for co-starring with Jamie Lee Curtis in the sitcom Anything but Love, for playing the role of Prince John in the film Robin Hood: Men in Tights and for his recurring role as a semi-fictionalized version of himself in HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Everybody Hates Chris
  • She's Funny That Way
  • The Dead Zone
  • Wagons East
Known For
  • Robin Hood: Men in Tights
  • Leaving Las Vegas
  • Wagons East
  • Vamps
  • Drunks
  • Once Upon a Crime...
  • Game Day
  • The Wrong Guys
  • Anything but Love
  • Dinner for Five
  • The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story
  • A Weekend in the Country
  • Diary of a Young Comic
  • Richard Lewis: The Magical Misery Tour
  • The Elevator
  • An Evening At the Improv
  • That's Adequate
  • Emily @ the Edge of Chaos

Filmography

2021
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos · as Aristotle (voice)
2017
Sandy Wexler · as Testimonial
2015
Code Black (TV Series) · as Stewart Gough
2015
Blunt Talk (TV Series) · as Dr. Weiss
2014
She's Funny That Way · as Al Finkelstein
2014
BoJack Horseman (TV Series) · as Ziggy Abler (voice)
2012
Vamps · as Danny
2010
Pound Puppies (2010) (TV Series) · as Buddy (voice)
2008
The Cleaner (TV Series) · as Henry
2007
Funny or Die Presents (TV Series) · as Shades
2006
'Til Death (TV Series) · as Miles Tunnicliff
2005
Everybody Hates Chris (TV Series) · as Kris
2003
Two and a Half Men (TV Series) · as Stan
2003
Las Vegas (TV Series)
2002
Presidio Med (TV Series) · as Francis Weinod
2002
The Dead Zone (TV Series) · as Jack Jericho
2002
George Lopez (TV Series)
2001
Alias (TV Series) · as Mitchell Yaeger
2001
Dinner for Five (TV Series)
1999
Game Day · as Steve Adler
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) · as Sportsman Larry
1998
V.I.P. (TV Series) · as Ronald Zane
1998
Hercules (TV Series) · as Neurosis
1998
Rude Awakening (TV Series) · as Harve Schwartz
1997
Hugo Pool · as Chick Chicalini
1997
The Maze · as Markov
1996
The Elevator · as Phil Milowski
1996
7th Heaven (TV Series) · as Richard Glass
1996
A Weekend in the Country · as Bobby Stein
1996
E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series) · as Comedian
1995
Drunks · as Jim
1995
Leaving Las Vegas · as Peter
1995
1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (TV Series) · as Old Beggar (voice)
1994
Wagons East · as Phil Taylor
1993
Daddy Dearest (TV Series) · as Steven Mitchell
1993
Robin Hood: Men in Tights · as Prince John
1993
Tribeca (TV Series)
1992
1992
1992
Once Upon a Crime... · as Julian Peters
1989
The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Golem (voice)
1989
Tales from the Crypt (TV Series) · as Vern
1989
Anything but Love (TV Series) · as Marty Gold
1989
That's Adequate · as Pimples Lapedes
1988
Tattinger's (TV Series) · as Longo
1988
The Wrong Guys · as Richard
1987
CBS Summer Playhouse (TV Series) · as Joey
1984
Riptide (1984) (TV Series) · as Andrew Fitzsimmons Carlton Iii
1979
House Calls (TV Series) · as Dr. Prometheus
1979
Diary of a Young Comic · as Billy Goldstein / Gondola

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