One of the most familiar Asian character actors in American films of the 1930s and 1940s, Richard Loo was most often stereotyped as the Japanese enemy flier, spy or interrogator during the Second World War. Chinese by ancestry and Hawaiian by birth, Loo spent his youth in Hawaii, then moved to California as a teenager. He attended the University of California and attempted a career in business. However, the stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent economic depression forced him to start over. He became involved with amateur, then professional, theater companies and in 1931 made his first film. Like most Asian actors in non-Asian countries, he played primarily small, stereotypical roles, though he rose quickly to familiarity, if not fame, in a number of fine films. His features led him to be a favorite movie villain, and the coming of World War II gave him greater prominence in roles as vicious Japanese soldiers in successful pictures such as The Purple Heart (1944) and God Is My Co-Pilot (1945). He had a rare heroic role as a weary Japanese-American soldier in the Korean War drama The Steel Helmet (1951), but spent far too much of his career in later years performing stock roles. His wife, Bessie Loo, was a well-known Hollywood agent.
Richard Lopez is known for Into the Abyss (2011).
Richard Lopez is known for Titans: The Rise of Wall Street (2022).
López is currently the Executive Producer and Showrunner for a new History Channel series. He began his career as a director of photography before moving into directing, writing and executive producing. He was one of two directors on the Emmy nominated, History Channel mini-series, "The World Wars," which aired in 2014. His work as cinematographer on "The Men Who Built America," an 8 hour mini-series for the History Channel, earned him a primetime Emmy nomination in 2012. He was the Director/Producer of "American Playboy," a 10 hours mini-series about Playboy Founder, Hugh Hefner, for Amazon. In 2015, he directed and produced "The Roman Empire: Reign of Blood," a 6-hour mini-series for Netflix. He has also directed and produced "American Speed" for CMT, a 6 hour docu-drama about the the birth of NASCAR, and "Egyptian Vice" for Spike TV, a 2 hour docu-drama about the history of Egypt's most infamous pharaohs. Other recent work include being director of "American Genius," an eight-episode docu-drama for National Geographic that dramatized the rivalries between America's greatest innovators, and shooting "Gold Fever," a four hour, docu-drama lensed by Lopez that dramatized the discovery of gold in the 1850's American West. Spike Lee executive produced his last feature film as DP, "The Girl is in Trouble," and it starred Wilmer Valderrama. For his work on "I Sell the Dead," starring Ron Perlman and Dominic Monaghan, López was awarded the Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematographer at the Slamdance Film Festival. Variety magazine has described his work as "expert." He has lensed concerts for Alicia Keys, Norah Jones, Mariah Carey, Harry Connick, Jr., Florence and the Machine, the Jonas Brothers, and International Jazz Day in Istanbul, Turkey. Corporate/commercial clients include Pfizer, Pepsi, Taco Bell, Reeses, Christian Dior, Paul Mitchell, Sears, Bank of America, Philips Norelco, Sony, Kimberly-Clark, Nestle, Mastercard and Hersheys. Before embarking on a career in TV, López worked for 7 years in the policy circles of Washington, DC. He began as a congressional aide to Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), before becoming the Executive Director of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. He was then tapped as a political appointee in the Clinton Administration to advise on education policy. He holds a BA in history and economics from the University of Michigan, an MA in American history from Stanford University and an MFA in film at Columbia University. He López was later an adjunct professor at Columbia. He is represented by Creative Artists Agency.
Richard Lopez Rosales is an actor, known for After We Leave (2019).
Richard Lothian is known for Black Sails (2014), The Mauritanian (2021) and The Watch (2020).
Richard Lounello's acting career began at the age of 23 with a spontaneous move to NYC. Bartending at some of the hottest nightclubs of the late 1980s allowed him to take acting classes during the day, studying Meisner, Uta Hagen and others. After 4 years in Manhattan and a handful of music videos and industrials and not much else, it seemed time to move back to his hometown of Albany, New York with his new wife. After a year in Albany, Los Angeles was calling and one 4 day cross country drive, Richard arrived in L.A. in October of 1994. 10 months in LA and a few network auditions and not much else, it seemed as though an acting career wasn't going to happen so back to Albany for good. Five more years of bar-tending and a few local commercials and an occasional no budget indie film, At 35, Richard did his first stage play and everything changed! He finally found the love of the craft of acting and did many productions often without pay. During this time he got one line on "Saturday Night Live" playing a cop arresting Mayor Giuliani in a Mango skit. This got him his AFTRA card followed quickly by one line on "Sex In The City" which got him his SAG card. He has continued to work steadily in independent films-nearly 2 dozen and counting. His largest role to date is in the Lifetime movie "A Mother's Revenge", opposite Jamie Luner, in which he had a large supporting role playing Detective Joe Jacobs. Needless to say, his path to being a working actor is far outside the norm as he doesn't live in the major markets ( 2 hours drive to NYC!) but he has managed to carve out a career despite the formidable obstacles.
Richard Lovell is known for Dig Me No Grave (2023), Dinosaur Hotel (2021) and Spider from the Attic (2021).
Richard Lovell is known for Dinosaur Hotel (2021), Dig Me No Grave (2024) and Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023).
Richard Low was born on 19 June 1952 in Singapore. He is an actor, known for Shen diao xia lv (1998), Cyber Wars (2004) and Xiao ao jiang hu (2000).