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Richard Lewis was born on June 29, 1947 and is 76 years old now.
Birthday: June 29, 1947
How Old - Age: 76
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Richard Lewis - Biography
Richard Philip Lewis (born June 29, 1947) is an American comedian and actor.
Lewis made his acting debut in Diary of a Young Comic. He co-starred with Jamie Lee Curtis on the TV sitcoms Anything but Love, which ran for four seasons, and with Don Rickles on Daddy Dearest. Lewis had a recurring role in Rude Awakening and as Rabbi Richard Glass in 7th Heaven. He appears in the Tales from the Crypt episode "Whirlpool." In 2007, he made a cameo appearance as Phillip in George Lopez. Recently, he also made cameos in Everybody Hates Chris as an old man in the hospital bed next to Chris Rock and as Charlie Sheen's accountant in Two and a Half Men.
Lewis has achieved moderate success in films, appearing as Prince John in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, as a frontier doctor in Wagons East, as an unemployed actor in Once Upon A Crime and as himself in The Wrong Guys. He plays the lead role of Jimmy Epstein in Drunks and in Game Day. Although most of his performances are in comedy, Lewis also appears in the dramatic films Leaving Las Vegas, Hugo Pool, and The Maze.
Lewis claims to be the originator of the phrase "The ______ from hell" as in "the night from hell", "the date from hell" or "the roommate from hell". This theory is expounded in the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode "The Nanny from Hell". Lewis has petitioned the editors of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations to be given credit for the coinage, but the editors claim that the phrase was a common idiom prior to Lewis's use of it. (For example, during World War I, kilted Scottish soldiers were given the nickname "The Ladies from Hell" (translation of German "Die Damen aus der Hölle") by German troops. A short story, “The Man from Hell”, by John Russell Fearn was published in Fantastic Adventures in 1939.) However, the Yale Book of Quotations attributes the phrase to Lewis.
