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Biography of Michael Richards - Comedian
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Michael Richards (born July 24, 1949) is an United States|American actor, writer, Vietnam War|Vietnam veteran, producer and comedian from Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles, California. Richards began as one of the cast members on American Broadcasting Company|ABC's Fridays television show, but didn't start making a name for himself until he portrayed "Stanley Spadowski" in "Weird Al" Yankovic's movie UHF (movie)|UHF in 1989. In the same year, he was cast as "Cosmo Kramer" — based on real-life counterpart Kenny Kramer — in the television series Seinfeld, which was created by fellow Friday's cast member Larry David and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. The show quickly went on to become one of the most popular Situation comedy|sitcoms in American history. In 2000, Richards made an attempt to start a vehicle of his own, The Michael Richards Show, but ratings were poor and the show was cancelled. Michael Richards also played a cameo role in So I Married an Axe Murderer where he was an "insensitive man," and was in the movie Problem Child, feauturing John Ritter, where he was an escaped convict. ==External links== *imdb name|id=0724245|name=Michael Richards ===Pictures=== *http://www.markseliger.com/ Mark Seliger - New York, 1993, With fish in a glass briefcase - under "Physiognomy (book)" US-actor-stub

