Richard Lewis
Born: 1947-06-29 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2024-02-27
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2021
- Emily @ the Edge of Chaos as Aristotle (voice)
2019
- Origin ... (Thanks)
2018
- Bucky and the Squirrels as Richard Lewis
- The Great Buster: A Celebration as Self
2017
- Sandy Wexler as Testimonial
2015
- She's Funny That Way as Al Finkelstein
- Misery Loves Comedy as Self
2014
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- BoJack Horseman as Ziggy Abler (voice)
2013
- Mel Brooks: Make a Noise as Self
2012
- Vamps as Danny
- Inside Comedy as Self
- Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man as Self
2011
- Looking for Lenny as Self
- Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis as Self
2010
- Pound Puppies as Buddy (voice)
- The Green Room with Paul Provenza as Self
- Just 3 Boyz as Shades (voice)
2007
2006
- 'Til Death as Miles Tunnicliff
2005
- Everybody Hates Chris as Kris
- The Aristocrats as Self
- Confessions of an Action Star as Self
2003
- Two and a Half Men as Stan
- Las Vegas as Stan
- The Very Best of America's Funniest Comedians as Self (archive footage)
2002
- The Dead Zone as Jack Jericho
- George Lopez as Phillip Nickleson
- Presidio Med as Francis Weinod
2001
- Alias as Mitchell Yaeger
- Laughing Out Loud: America's Funniest Comedians as Self (archive footage)
- Revealed with Jules Asner
- Dinner for Five
2000
- Curb Your Enthusiasm as Richard Lewis
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Sportsman Larry
- Game Day as Steve Adler
- Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm as Self
1998
- V.I.P. as Ronald Zane
- Hercules as Neurosis
- The Elevator as Phil Milowski
1997
- The View as Self
- Drunks as Jim
- Hugo Pool as Chick Chicalini
- The Maze as Markov
- Hiller and Diller as Neil Diller
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- 7th Heaven as Richard Glass
- A Weekend in the Country as Bobby Stein
- Nichols and May: Take Two as Self
- Richard Lewis: The Magical Misery Tour as Himself
1995
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Old Beggar (voice)
- Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist as Richard (voice)
- Leaving Las Vegas as Peter
- MADtv as Self
- A.J.'s Time Travelers as Edgar Allan Poe
1994
- Wagons East! as Phil Taylor
1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights as Prince John
- 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' – The Legend Had It Coming as Self
- TriBeCa
- Daddy Dearest as Steven Mitchell
- The Last Party as Self
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- The Larry Sanders Show as Richard Lewis
- Once Upon a Crime as Julian Peters
- The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story as Edward Sanders
1991
- The One, the Only... Groucho as Self
1990
- Richard Lewis: I'm Doomed as Self
1989
- The Simpsons as Golem (voice)
- Tales from the Crypt as Vern (segment "Whirlpool")
- Anything But Love as Marty Gold
- That's Adequate as Pimples Lapedes
- Comic Relief III as Self
1988
- The Wrong Guys as Richard
- Richard Lewis: I'm Exhausted as Self
- An All-Star Toast to the Improv as Self
1987
- Harry as Richard Breskin
1986
- American Masters as Self
1985
- Richard Lewis: I'm In Pain as Self
1982
- The Facts as Host
1981
- The 6th Annual Young Comedians as Self
1979
- Diary of a Young Comic as Billy Goldstein / Gondola