Richard was born in New York and moved to Los Angeles at the
age of 11. He began acting in school plays, from elementary school all
the way through junior college, after which he began writing and
performing comedy celebrity voice bits for the Rick Dees In The Morning
Show on Los Angeles radio station, 102.7 KIIS-FM. In 1985, he embarked
on his other career as a cabaret singer. He has developed over the
years, a repertoire of the popular American songs of the 1910s, 1920s
and 1930s. He specializes in songs of the Tin Pan Alley era, including the Jazz-Age/Prohibition Era, and The Great Depression.
He is also the Emcee at the annual Dark Shadows
Festivals, and a member of their Collinsport Players, a skit group
devoted to creating comedic satires about the story-lines and
characters of that popular 1960s TV soap opera.
Richard is also an actor and
voice-over artist, having appeared on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live,
and in many radio and TV commercials. He also has a successful job as
the top Austin Powers impersonator/tribute artist in the United States, and probably
the World.
New Line Cinema, the
Austin Powers film company has hired him to appear at the official
studio party for the video/DVD release of "Austin Powers: The Spy Who
Shagged Me" in 1999, and hired him again in 2002 to officially open
"Austin Powers In Goldmember", at the Arclight Theatres/Cinerama Dome,
in Hollywood.
He continues to appear as Austin Powers at private and public events nationwide and world-wide, as well as continuing his acting career.
