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. He moved back to England in 1964...See full bio »
2004Connie and Carla
(writer: "Time Warp" / performer: "Time Warp")
2000Rocky Horror 25: Anniversary Special
(TV movie)
(writer: "Science Fiction/Double Feature", "The Time Warp", "Sweet Transvestite", "The Charles Atlas Song I Can Make You a Man", "Hot Patootie", "Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me", "Planet, Schmanet, Janet", "Rose Tint My World", "I'm Going Home" / performer: "The Time Warp")
2000A Regular Frankie Fan
(documentary)
(music: "Science Fiction/Double Feature", "Rose Tints My World and Hot Patootie", "Toucha-Touch Me", "Time Warp", "Sweet Transvestite", "I'm Going Home", "Planet Schmanet Janet" / lyrics: "Science Fiction/Double Feature", "Rose Tints My World and Hot Patootie", "Toucha-Touch Me", "Time Warp", "Sweet Transvestite", "I'm Going Home", "Planet Schmanet Janet")
1983The Return of Captain Invincible
(lyrics: "Captain Invincible", "Evil Midnight", "Name Your Poison" / performer: "Captain Invincible")
1981Shock Treatment
(writer: "Overture", "Denton, U.S.A", "Bitchin' In The Kitchen", "In My Own Way", "Thank God I'm A Man", "Farley's Song", "Lullaby", "Little Black Dress", "Me of Me", "Shock Treatment", "Carte Blanche", "Looking for Trade", "Look What I Did To My Id", "Breaking Out", "Duel Duet", "Anyhow, Anyhow" / performer: "Farley's Song", "Lullaby", "Little Black Dress", "Shock Treatment", "Look What I Did To My Id")
1975The Rocky Horror Picture Show
(writer: "Science Fiction/Double Feature", "Dammit Janet", "Over At The Frankenstein Place", "Time Warp", "Sweet Transvestite", "The Sword of Damocles", "I Can Make You A Man", "Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul Whatever Happened to Saturday Night?", "I Can Make You a Man Reprise", "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me", "Eddie", "Planet, Schmanet, Janet", "Rose Tint My World", "Fanfare/Don't Dream It", "Wild And Untamed Thing", "I'm Going Home", "Super Heroes", "Science Fiction/Double Feature Reprise" / performer: "Science Fiction/Double Feature", "Dammit Janet", "Over At The Frankenstein Place", "Time Warp", "Sweet Transvestite", "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me", "Wild And Untamed Thing", "Science Fiction/Double Feature Reprise")
When you do something like Rocky, which is undefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that. Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon. And I have no problems with that at all. If it overshadows anything else, I can understand completely why and again it doesn't worry me.
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Trivia:
Emigrated with his parents to New Zealand, went to school in Tauranga on the North Island's east coast, and moved to Hamilton for a while for work when he left school, before returning to the UK.
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