Richard Fancy
Biography
Richard Fancy is an American actor and comedian who was born in Evanston, Illinois. He is best known for his recurring part on Seinfeld as Mr. Lippman, the publisher who employs Elaine Benes, and gained attention as well for playing High Priest Caiaphas in The Chosen. Television viewers also saw him as Mr. Stravely, a network boss, on It's Garry Shandling's Show during its third and fourth seasons, and as Dr. Valenti, the principal at Kevin Arnold's high school, across seasons four and five of The Wonder Years. His film credits include What About Bob? (1991), Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995) and Primal Force (1999). He also spent years on General Hospital as Bernie Abrahms, a mob financier, and turned up in two Star Trek series, The Next Generation and Voyager.
83years old
Turns 84 on August 2in 309 days
- Born Evanston
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
- Also credited as Richard Ronald Fancy
Movie Career
- Films
- 13
- Career span
- 24 years1988 to 2012
First and latest
Richard Fancy movies on Netflix
The Lords of Salemas AJ Kennedy
Cinema Veriteas Network President
Adventures of Poweras Dick Houston
The Girl Next Dooras Mr. Peterson
Moonlight Mileas Mr. Meyerson
Primal Forceas Deutsch
Richie Rich's Christmas Wishas Mr. Van Dough
Touchas Judge
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspaceas Senator Greenspan
The Last Outlawas Banker McClintock
Tango & Cashas Nolan
True Believeras Ballistics Expert
Spellbinderas Sgt. Barry
Best known for
The films on Netflix with the most votes on IMDb, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Three actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Lolita Davidovich2 films together, 1997 to 2011
Lolita Davidovich's page Cinema Verite2011IMDb rating 6.5Fancy as Network PresidentDavidovich as Val
Touch1997IMDb rating 5.6Fancy as JudgeDavidovich as Antoinette Baker
David Byrd2 films together, 1989 to 1996
David Byrd's page Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace1996IMDb rating 2.6Fancy as Senator GreenspanByrd as Judge
Tango & Cash1989IMDb rating 6.4Fancy as NolanByrd as Judge McCormick
Jake Richardson2 films together, 1998 to 2011
Jake Richardson's page Cinema Verite2011IMDb rating 6.5Fancy as Network PresidentRichardson as Tommy Goodwin
Richie Rich's Christmas Wish1998IMDb rating 4.1Fancy as Mr. Van DoughRichardson as Reggie Van Dough
Box office
What Richard Fancy's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$111 million
7 of the 13 films have a worldwide figure, in dollars of the day.
Of the 13 films: 7 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 3 never in cinemas; 1 figure not found.
- 7Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 3Never in cinemas
- 1Figure not found
Top grosser

Highest grossing
The seven biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$63M57.1% of the total
- 2$32M28.5% of the total
- 3$10M9.0% of the total
- 4$2.4M2.2% of the total
- 5$1.9M1.7% of the total
- 6$1.2M1.1% of the total
- 7$387K0.3% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.









