Richard O'Brien

Birth Name:

Richard Timothy Smith

Birth Place:

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

Profession

Soundtrack, Actor, Writer, Stunts, Music department

A patron of the Five Stars Scanner Appeal, he has helped raise money for the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital with his annual Transfandango gala and the Richard O'Brien's Halloween Party event
Won a Special Teddy at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998
After trying to start a singing career, he became a movie stuntman and fringe theater actor
Though he was born in England, he moved to New Zealand with his family after his accountant father decided to become a sheep farmer
Quote: "I knew when I was six that I wanted to be a fairy princess when I grew up․"
Quote: "I love it when I'm introduced to people who have been married for 50 or 60 years․ I wish it could have happened to me, but I was an adolescent for years and years․"
Best known for writing the cult classic musical "The Rocky Horror Show," and co-writing the screenplay for its film adaptation, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show․"
Frequently collaborated with arranger Richard Hartley on musicals and songs following the success of "The Rocky Horror Show․"
Returned to New Zealand with his children regularly so that they could get to know their relatives there
Won his struggle to become a citizen of New Zealand in 2011

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