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Richard Lewis
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Richard Lewis

1947 – 2024 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA · Active 1962–2024

Richard Lewis, born in 1947, is an American actor known for his distinctive blend of dark humor and neurotic charm. In the 2012 film Vamps, he delivers a memorable performance that adds a comedic twist to the vampire genre. His career, which took off in the 1980s, often features self-deprecating humor, making him a fitting presence in the quirky world of cult cinema. Lewis's role in Vamps exemplifies how his comedic style can elevate even the most unconventional narratives.

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Vamps

Vamps

2012 ★ 5.3
as Danny

Stacy (Krysten Ritter) and Goody (Alicia Silverstone), are two vampires enjoying life in New York City. Goody was turned in 1841 by the vampire Ciccerus (Sigourney Weaver). After leaving the man she fell in love with in the 1960s, she struggled with her life as a vampire until Stacy was turned by Ciccerus sometime during the early 1990s. Goody was able to teach Stacy how to use her new abilities, like sustaining themselves on rat blood, while Stacy helps Goody stay youthful and trendy. Goody keeps her actual age a secret because she is afraid of being viewed as old by Stacy. While at a vampire meeting, Goody discovers that if their maker or "stem" Ciccerus is ever killed, she and Stacy would revert to their human ages. While working at a hospital as an exterminator, Goody runs into her ex-boyfriend Danny (Richard Lewis), whom she has not seen since the 1960s. They re-connect under the pretense that she is Goody's daughter, but Danny eventually learns the truth when he sees her bite into another man to prevent a stroke. When he asks why she left him, Goody explains that even though she loved him, she did not want to stand in his way of finding someone he could actually build a life with. Meanwhile, the government is using the Patriot Act to track down vampires, causing panic amongst the vampire's anonymous group. Goody comes up with a plan to delete and change all the information about all the vampires in the New York area during a solar eclipse. After they succeed the vamps throw a party for both human and non-human feeders, but all is endangered by the threat of Ciccerus who didn't attend and massacred an entire restaurant full of people. Stacy begins a relationship with a young college student named Joey (Dan Stevens). It is soon revealed that Joey is the son of the infamous vampire slayer Dr. Van Helsing (Wallace Shawn) who is in town to find and kill vampires. After spending the night at Joey's place, he sees Stacy crawling down the side of his apartment building in order to get home before the sun rises. Despite his initial shock, Joey accepts that Stacy is a vampire and the two resume dating. Stacy soon discovers she is pregnant, and is informed that the baby won't survive unless she becomes human again, which can only happen if they kill Ciccerus. The girls team up with Joey and Dr. Van Helsing and after a struggle, they end up killing Ciccerus so that Stacy can keep her baby and have a future with Joey. Stacy looks relatively the same despite being forty years old, but Goody rapidly ages into an old woman. Revealing her actual age, Goody accompanies Joey and Stacy to Times Square where Goody reminisces about her life. As the sun rises, she disintegrates into ash. A few years later, Stacy and Joey show up at Dr. Van Helsing's house to pick up their young daughter, whom they have named after Goody. As Van Helsing plays with his granddaughter, he notices that the little girl sports a set of vampire fangs, but rather than being horrified he seems amused. 

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Filmography

98 credits
2020s 2 credits
2024
Group Therapy as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 7.8
2021
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos as Aristotle (voice)
Movie
2010s 16 credits
2018
Bucky and the Squirrels as Richard Lewis
Movie
2018
Movie ★ 7.2
2017
Sandy Wexler as Testimonial
Movie ★ 5.5
2015
Movie ★ 6.0
2015
She's Funny That Way as Al Finkelstein
Movie ★ 5.9
2014
TV ★ 5.2
2014
BoJack Horseman as Ziggy Abler (voice)
TV ★ 8.5
2013
Movie ★ 8.2
2012
Vamps as Danny
Movie ★ 5.3
2012
TV ★ 6.5
2011
Movie ★ 5.4
2011
Movie ★ 5.6
2010
Just 3 Boyz as Shades (voice)
Movie
2010
TV ★ 8.1
2010
Pound Puppies as Buddy (voice)
TV ★ 5.3
2000s 17 credits
2007
Movie ★ 6.8
2006
'Til Death as Miles Tunnicliff
TV ★ 6.4
2005
Movie ★ 6.0
2005
Movie ★ 4.3
2005
TV ★ 8.1
2003
Movie
2003
Las Vegas as Stan
TV ★ 7.0
2003
TV ★ 7.5
2002
Presidio Med as Francis Weinod
TV ★ 8.0
2002
The Dead Zone as Jack Jericho
TV ★ 7.3
2002
George Lopez as Phillip Nickleson
TV ★ 7.5
2001
Movie ★ 8.0
2001
TV ★ 8.3
2001
Alias as Mitchell Yaeger
TV ★ 6.8
2000
Curb Your Enthusiasm as Richard Lewis
TV ★ 8.0
1990s 40 credits
1999
Game Day as Steve Adler
Movie ★ 5.5
1999
Movie ★ 7.5
1999
TV ★ 7.9
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Sportsman Larry (voice)
TV ★ 7.9
1998
The Elevator as Phil Milowski
Movie ★ 6.0
1998
Hercules as Neurosis
TV ★ 6.9
1998
V.I.P. as Ronald Zane
TV ★ 5.3
1998
Hollywood Squares as Self - Panelist
TV ★ 7.6
1998
Rude Awakening as Harve Schwartz
TV ★ 6.6
1997
The Maze as Markov
Movie ★ 7.5
1997
Drunks as Jim
Movie ★ 3.2
1997
Hugo Pool as Chick Chicalini
Movie ★ 5.3
1997
The View as Self
TV ★ 4.4
1997
Hiller and Diller as Neil Diller
TV
1996
Movie ★ 5.7
1996
Movie ★ 7.0
1996
Movie ★ 6.5
1996
TV ★ 6.4
1996
7th Heaven as Richard Glass
TV ★ 6.4
1995
Movie ★ 7.3
1995
Movie
1995
TV ★ 7.9
1995
MADtv as Self
TV ★ 7.1
1995
A.J.'s Time Travelers as Edgar Allan Poe
TV ★ 6.3
1995
TV ★ 6.3
1994
Wagons East! as Phil Taylor
Movie ★ 4.9
1993
Movie ★ 5.2
1993
Movie ★ 6.6
1993
TV ★ 7.3
1993
TV ★ 8.0
1993
Daddy Dearest as Steven Mitchell
TV ★ 5.7
1993
TV ★ 6.4
1992
Once Upon a Crime as Julian Peters
Movie ★ 5.7
1992
Movie ★ 3.9
1992
The Larry Sanders Show as Richard Lewis
TV ★ 7.7
1991
Movie ★ 10.0
1990
Movie ★ 7.0
1980s 14 credits
1989
That's Adequate as Pimples Lapedes
Movie ★ 4.1
1989
Movie ★ 8.0
1989
The Simpsons as Golem (voice)
TV ★ 8.0
1989
Tales from the Crypt as Vern (segment "Whirlpool")
TV ★ 8.0
1989
Anything But Love as Marty Gold
TV ★ 6.1
1988
The Wrong Guys as Richard
Movie ★ 5.7
1988
Movie ★ 8.0
1987
Harry as Richard Breskin
TV ★ 7.0
1986
TV ★ 7.3
1985
Movie ★ 8.0
1982
The Facts as Host
Movie
1982
TV ★ 6.1
1981
Movie ★ 8.0
1970s 1 credit
1979
Diary of a Young Comic as Billy Goldstein / Gondola
Movie ★ 7.0
1960s 1 credit
Crew Credits
2010s 1 credit
2019
Origin Thanks
Movie ★ 6.0
1990s 4 credits
1995
TV ★ 7.9
1993
TV ★ 5.7
1990
Movie ★ 7.0
1980s 1 credit
1988
Movie ★ 8.0
1970s 1 credit
1979
Movie ★ 7.0