Richard Lewis

ACTOR, WRITER, PRODUCER

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Richard Philip Lewis was born on June 29, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Englewood, New Jersey. He went to Dwight Morrow High School and Ohio State University, graduating in 1969 with a degree in marketing and communications. Lewis wrote ad copy in New Jersey while also writing jokes for comedians such as Morty Gunty. He finally got the nerve to perform his own jokes in 1971 at New York's Improvisation and Pips.After appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) in 1974, he continued to tour and hone his act with help from David Brenner and Robert Klein. His film Diary of a Young Comic (1979) aired in the Saturday Night Live (1975) time-slot. His work on cable "I'm in Pain" for Showtime in 1988, The I'm Exhausted Concert (1988) earned a nomination from American Comedy Awards for Funniest Male Performer in a Television Special (for HBO); Richard Lewis: I'm Doomed (1990) (HBO) won him a second Ace Nomination for Best Stand-Up Comedy Special. His Richard Lewis: The Magical Misery Tour (1996) was filmed at New York's "Bottom Line" in December 1996. In December 1989, he performed to an SRO crowd at Carnegie Hall. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Janet Hoffmann/Robert Sieger

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Richard Lewis’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Richard Lewis on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1979 to 2016. See the full graphs of the number of Richard Lewis movies released per year from 1989 till 2016.

Top Genres

Richard Lewis works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 55% of Richard Lewis movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Richard Lewis worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Richard Lewis has worked on is 6.7.

6.7 / 10

Richard Lewis's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

The life and times of Larry David and the predicaments he gets himself into with his friends and complete strangers.

8.8/1028 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Mock documentary about Seinfeld writer Larry David featuring contributions from his friends and colleagues. Larry makes a return to stand-up comedy and prepares to film a television special for HBO.

8.3/1059 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

7.5/10111 min

Available in 14 platform(s).

A time capsule of the L.A. comedy scene in the 1970s, "Diary of a Young Comic" casts Richard Lewis as a fictionalized version of himself - a young New York comic who comes out to Los Angeles to seek his fame and fortune.

7.4/1067 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Combining decades of archival material, interviews with some of comedy's biggest stars, and new footage, this is a hilarious and poignant look at the life and career of Robert Klein.

6.9/1094 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

Adventure,Comedy,Musical
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)

A spoof of Robin Hood in general, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) in particular.

6.7/10104 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and ...

6.3/1090 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Looking for Lenny is an in-depth, controversial documentary that uses Lenny Bruce's legacy to explore the present condition of the fear of words and expression. It also tackles the issue of...

6.2/1065 min

Available in 10 platform(s).