Career← Previous revisionRevision as of 21:40, 20 October 2026 Line 27: Line 27: In film, Riehle played Tom Smykowski, the self-described "people person" who serves as an intermediary between the engineers and customers at the software company Initech in ''[[Office Space]]''. His other roles include the ranch hand Carlson in ''[[Of Mice and Men (1992 film)|Of Mice and Men]]'' (1992), the guard who allowed [[Harrison Ford]] to escape custody in ''[[The Fugitive (1993 film)|The Fugitive]]'' (1993), Principal Beasely in the [[Pauly Shore]] comedy ''[[Jury Duty (film)|Jury Duty]]'' (1995), ''[[Executive Decision]]'' (1996), ''[[Mercury Rising]]'' (1998), ''[[Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo]]'' (1999), ''[[Wedding Crashers]]'' (2005), and ''[[The Secret Village]]''.{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Jenn |date=October 20, 2013 |title='Secret Village' coming soon to Little Cinema at Berkshire Museum |url=http://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/ci_24347893/secret-village-coming-soon-little-cinema-at-berkshire |newspaper=[[The Berkshire Eagle]] |publisher=[[New England Newspapers, Inc.]] |issn=0895-8793 |oclc=12737059 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514034039/http://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/ci_24347893/secret-village-coming-soon-little-cinema-at-berkshire |archive-date=May 14, 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=May 13, 2014}} His last film credit was in 2026, in ''[[The Cowboy Killer]]''. In film, Riehle played Tom Smykowski, the self-described "people person" who serves as an intermediary between the engineers and customers at the software company Initech in ''[[Office Space]]''. His other roles include the ranch hand Carlson in ''[[Of Mice and Men (1992 film)|Of Mice and Men]]'' (1992), the guard who allowed [[Harrison Ford]] to escape custody in ''[[The Fugitive (1993 film)|The Fugitive]]'' (1993), Principal Beasely in the [[Pauly Shore]] comedy ''[[Jury Duty (film)|Jury Duty]]'' (1995), ''[[Executive Decision]]'' (1996), ''[[Mercury Rising]]'' (1998), ''[[Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo]]'' (1999), ''[[Wedding Crashers]]'' (2005), and ''[[The Secret Village]]''.{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Jenn |date=October 20, 2013 |title='Secret Village' coming soon to Little Cinema at Berkshire Museum |url=http://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/ci_24347893/secret-village-coming-soon-little-cinema-at-berkshire |newspaper=[[The Berkshire Eagle]] |publisher=[[New England Newspapers, Inc.]] |issn=0895-8793 |oclc=12737059 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514034039/http://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/ci_24347893/secret-village-coming-soon-little-cinema-at-berkshire |archive-date=May 14, 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=May 13, 2014}} His last film credit was in 2026, in ''[[The Cowboy Killer]]''. Riehle twice performed on Broadway, first in 1986's ''[[Execution of Justice]]'' and then in the 1999 Tony-nominated revival of [[The Iceman Cometh|''The'' ''Iceman Cometh'']]''.'' In February 1989, he was in [[John Guare]]'s comedy ''[[Moon Over Miami (play)|Moon Over Miami]]'' which opened at the [[Yale Repertory Theater]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]].{{sfn|Curry|2002|pp=3, 178}}{{cite news |author= |date=February 17, 1989 |title=New J. Guare Script Opens Tonight At YRT |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AP0gAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=%22Richard+Riehle%22&article_id=4149,2693459&hl |newspaper=[[The Hour (newspaper)|The Hour]] |volume=119 |issue=40 |publisher=[[Hearst Communications]] |oclc=27905790 |page=13 |access-date=October 20, 2026}} Riehle twice performed on Broadway, first in 1986's ''[[Execution of Justice]]'' and then in the 1999 Tony-nominated revival of [[The Iceman Cometh|''The'' ''Iceman Cometh'']]''.'' In February 1989, he was in [[John Guare]]'s comedy ''Moon Over Miami'' which opened at the [[Yale Repertory Theater]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]].{{sfn|Curry|2002|pp=3, 178}}{{cite news |author= |date=February 17, 1989 |title=New J. Guare Script Opens Tonight At YRT |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AP0gAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=%22Richard+Riehle%22&article_id=4149,2693459&hl |newspaper=[[The Hour (newspaper)|The Hour]] |volume=119 |issue=40 |publisher=[[Hearst Communications]] |oclc=27905790 |page=13 |access-date=October 20, 2026}} ==Death== ==Death==