Actor

Richard Blade

3 films on Movie OTT · Active 1988–2017

Richard Blade is a British-American radio and television personality whose career has stretched across decades and formats — from spinning records in Los Angeles to fronting television programs that put him in front of a generation of music fans. Born in England in 1956 (TMDB), he made the jump to American media and, by most accounts, never really looked back. What's striking is how thoroughly he became a fixture of the LA airwaves at a time when radio DJs were genuinely famous, the kind of recognizable voice you'd hear driving the 405 and actually feel something about. Not just background noise. A presence. He's probably best known stateside as a disc jockey — described by TMDB as "very successful and well-known" in Los Angeles — but his background also includes work as an actor, which is the kind of detail that tends to get buried under the bigger story of his broadcasting career. In the 1980s, he hosted a television show called The Rock 'N' Roll Evening News (TMDB), a program that, even by the standards of that gloriously chaotic decade, sounds like exactly the sort of thing that could only have existed then. Hard to say if it'd land the same way today. Wikipedia categorizes him as a British-American radio and television personality, which is accurate but doesn't quite capture how much of his identity seems tied to that specific Los Angeles moment — the Sunset Strip, the new wave, the era when a DJ could be a celebrity in their own right.

About Richard Blade

Not just background noise. A presence. He's probably best known stateside as a disc jockey — described by TMDB as "very successful and well-known" in Los Angeles — but his background also includes work as an actor, which is the kind of detail that tends to get buried under the bigger story of his broadcasting career.

In the 1980s, he hosted a television show called The Rock 'N' Roll Evening News (TMDB), a program that, even by the standards of that gloriously chaotic decade, sounds like exactly the sort of thing that could only have existed then. Hard to say if it'd land the same way today. Wikipedia categorizes him as a British-American radio and television personality, which is accurate but doesn't quite capture how much of his identity seems tied to that specific Los Angeles moment — the Sunset Strip, the new wave, the era when a DJ could be a celebrity in their own right.

Early life & background

Richard Blade was born on May 23, 1956, in England, UK (TMDB). Beyond his British origins, the public record doesn't offer much in the way of early biographical detail — family background, education, and the circumstances that eventually brought him across the Atlantic aren't well-documented in available sources. What we do know is that he made the move to the United States at some point and built a career substantial enough that his name became synonymous with Los Angeles radio culture. The specifics of that journey — where he studied, who shaped him early on — aren't confirmed in current sources and would need further verification.

Career

Blade's career is one of those stories where the broadcasting work so thoroughly overshadowed everything else that it's easy to forget he started out as an actor (TMDB). The acting chapter of his life isn't richly documented in available records, but it's there — a foundation, maybe, for the kind of comfort in front of cameras and microphones that would define what came next. By the 1980s, he'd pivoted hard into the DJ world, and Los Angeles — specifically its radio scene — is where he made his name. TMDB describes him as having been a "very successful and well-known disc jockey" in the city, which, if you know anything about how competitive that market was during the decade, isn't a small thing to say. LA radio in the '80s wasn't friendly to anyone who didn't have something real to offer. He had it. The television side ran parallel. His show The Rock 'N' Roll Evening News — which he hosted in the '80s (TMDB) — was the kind of program that tried to treat music news with the same urgency as actual news, and honestly, for a lot of young viewers at the time, it probably felt just as important. Whether the format fully worked is another question, but it put Blade in a unique position: not just a voice, but a face, someone who could anchor a broadcast and hold an audience's attention across both mediums. Wikipedia identifies him as a British-American radio and television personality (Wikipedia), a description that, while tidy, does capture the dual-nationality, dual-format nature of what he built. His career arc — English origins, American reinvention, decades of sustained presence in LA media — is the kind of thing that doesn't happen by accident.

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Filmography

Man in the Camo Jacket

2017 · Self

Long Lost Son

2006 · Patrick

Spellcaster

1988 · Rex

Frequently asked questions

What films is Richard Blade known for?

Richard Blade has 3 titles indexed on Movie OTT, including Man in the Camo Jacket, Long Lost Son, Spellcaster.

How long has Richard Blade been active?

Richard Blade's film career on Movie OTT spans from 1988 to 2017 — 29 years of work.