Actor
Richard O'Brien
March 25, 1942 · 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 Zealand but he moved back to England in 1964. On becoming an actor, he changed his name to Richard O'Brien (his maternal grandmother's surname). O'Brien presented the 1990–93 Channel 4 game show The Crystal Maze, and voiced Lawrence Fletcher in the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb (2008–2015; 2025–present) and its two films (2011 and 2020).
Notable work
7.3Dark City (1998)
as Mr. Hand
7.4The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
as Riff Raff
7.5EverAfter (1998)
as Pierre Le Pieu
6.3Flash Gordon (1980)
as Fico
7.9Phineas and Ferb (2007)
as Lawrence Fletcher (voice)
4.4Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
as Xilus
7.1Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011)
as Lawrence Fletcher / Lawrence-2 (voice)
4.9Spice World (1997)
as Damien
7.2Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020)
as Lawrence Fletcher (voice)
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