Richard Carmen is an American character actor

Character actor

A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...

. He is known for his leading role in the 2007 Sundance

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

 film Zoo

Zoo (film)

Sundance judges called it a "humanizing look at the life and bizarre death of a seemingly normal Seattle family man who met his untimely end after an unusual encounter with a horse"....

 where he played the main character's brother. Richard also appeared in two short films featured on the Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 reality series On The Lot

On the Lot

On the Lot is a short-lived reality show competition produced by Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett. The show, which aired on Fox, featured filmmakers competing in weekly elimination competitions, with the ultimate prize of a million dollar development deal at DreamWorks...

 and a role in the 2009 horror movie Zombies of Mass Destruction

ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (film)

ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction is a 2010 zombie comedy film directed by Kevin Hamedani.-Plot:The film begins on a beach of the island town of Port Gamble. A blind resident discovers a rotting zombie washed up in the sand, who wakes up...

 which played at SIFF

Seattle International Film Festival

The Seattle International Film Festival , held annually in Seattle, Washington since 1976, is among the top film festivals in North America. Audiences have grown steadily; the 2006 festival had 160,000 attendees...

. Richard also stars as Vance in the horror movie The Taken which will be released in 2010.

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