1991
Search results
As an out-of-work actor in London in the early 1970s, Richard O'Brien wrote The Rocky Horror Show to keep himself busy on winter evenings. Since his youth, he had developed a passion for science fiction and B horror movies ; he wanted to combine elements of the unintentional humour of B horror movies, portentous dialogue of schlock-horror ...
Mini Bio. Born in Cheltenham, England, Richard Smith's family moved to Tauranga, New Zealand, in 1951 when his father, an accountant, decided to become a sheep farmer. Watching horror and science-fiction double features in nearby Hamilton, Smith added an interest in acting to his love of rock and roll.
Jun 19, 2023 · Richard O'Brien reflects on The Rocky Horror Show's 50th anniversary. The 81-year-old creator of the horror-comedy tells us how he came up with the musical that has left us wanting to do...
Mar 4, 2013 · How we made: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Writer and actor Richard O'Brien and composer Richard Hartley remember how three weeks at the Royal Court turned into a gender-bending 20th...
I have a very low-brow approach to life, I like populist kinds of themes – comics and rock’n’roll and B movies. The plot and dialogue for The Rocky Horror Show are raids on populist things: from advertising, from comics, from B movies, from sci-fi. It’s a complete and utter raid upon all those elements; a joyous raid.
He is most known for writing the book and music for The Rocky Horror Show in 1973, Shock Treatment in 1981 and all the scrapped productions; also for his voice role as Lawrence Fletcher in Disney's "Phineas and Ferb". Contents. 1 Early life. 2 Rocky Horror. 3 Later work. 4 Filmography. 5 Rocky Horror Roles. 6 Navigation. Early life.
Jun 12, 2023 · Richard O’Brien has always seen his seminal, naughty musical The Rocky Horror Show as “just a piece of silly nonsense”. That’s what he thought when, as an unemployed actor in the early ’70s, he created “sweet transvestite” Dr Frank-N-Furter and his crew of glorious misfits.
Related searches
