Richard Overton was born in America on August 10th, 1954. Nancy Overton was his mother and Hall Overton was his father. His mother was a singer and his father was a teacher and also arranged music.
Better known as Rick, he himself is both an actor and a comedian, as well as a screenplay writer. Though he was born in Queens, New York, he spent his childhood in a part of New Jersey called Englewood. There, he went to Dwight Morrow High School.
Rick’s first two movie roles came in nineteen eighty-two. The first was in a comedy spoof called ‘Young Doctors In Love’. Garry Marshall directed the movie. The second was another comedy, ‘Airplane II: The Sequel’, which was a follow-up to the nineteen eighty film entitled ‘Airplane!’. That movie was both written and directed by the same person, Ken Finkleman.
He was seen in many television programs and films in the eighties. Some of his roles included a part in 1984’s ‘Beverly Hills Cop’; ‘Odd Jobs’ of 1986, as well as ‘Modern Girls’ from the same year; 1987’s ‘Million Dollar Mystery’; and 1989’s ‘Blind Fury’. In total, he featured in 7 TV shows and 13 different films during that decade. He was even the writer of an episode of TV show ‘The New Adventures of Beans Baxter’ in the late eighties.
In the early nineties, Rick was given a part in a TV series called ‘The Edge’. However, the show was ended the following year. Also in that year, he appeared in two episodes of the ‘Seinfeld’ comedy series, and received a role in the movie ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’, featuring Robin Williams.
The career of richard overton has lasted over thirty years. He has won an Emmy award as the writer of one of the ‘Dennis Miller Live’ episodes in nineteen ninety-seven. He was most recently seen on the big screen in the two thousand and eleven Cameron Diaz movie ‘The Bad Teacher’.
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