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Richard O'Brien
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). His other acting credits include Flash Gordon (1980), Spice World (1997), EverAfter (1998), Dark City (1998), Dungeons & Dragons (2000), Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001), and Jackboots on Whitehall (2010).
O'Brien is transgender and identifies himself as third gender and uses he/him pronouns.
As actor
Tiny Little Voices
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Rocky Horror 45: The Movie
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe
The Stolen
Life After Flash
Rocky Horror Show Live
Phineas and Ferb: Last Day of Summer
Phineas and Ferb: Night of the Living Pharmacists
Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars
Phineas and Ferb Save Summer
The Last Impresario
Phineas and Ferb: The Perry Files - Animal Agents
Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel
Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
The British Guide to Showing Off
Phineas and Ferb: Summer Belongs to You!
Jackboots on Whitehall
Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!
Night Train
Rocky Horror Tribute Show
Dark City: Memories of Shell Beach
Once Upon a Time in New York: the Birth of Hip Hop, Disco and Punk
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
The Children's Party at the Palace
The Perfect Scary Movie
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia
Elvira's Haunted Hills
Dungeons & Dragons