Richard Kim Milford (February 7, 1951 - June 16, 1988) was an American movie and stage actor. February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, he grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago, Illinois (Winnetka, Illinois), where he went to New Trier High School. His family includes some familiar names from the movie and art world, sister, actress Penelope Milford (Coming Home for which she got an Oscar nomination, Heathers, The Burning Bed) and brother, Doug Milford, now COO (?CEO) and Co-owner of Artsystems Art Management Software (artsystems.com), co-owned and operated Piezo Electric in the East Village, owned and ran the Milford Gallery in SoHo, and as Publisher at ArtNet Worldwide, he designed, produced, and led the creation of Artnet.com. Glen Ridge is a borough located in Essex County, New Jersey, USA. It is a residential community of about 7,000. ... ... Winnetka is a village located in Cook County, Illinois. ... Penelope Milford (born 1948 in St. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...

The multi-talented Kim Milford was an actor-singer-songwriter-composer-dancer and first appeared in SummerStock Theatre in Chicago at age 10; at age 17 he was in the original staging of Hair (he played Woof and Claude). In 1976 he was awarded the Faith and Freedom Award by the Religious Heritage of America for his portrayal of the Prodigal Son in ABC Directories series "Round Trip". Kim later performed in the first concert tour of Jesus Christ Superstar playing Jesus and Judas, and in the first production of The Rocky Horror Show as Rocky (Roxy Cast in Los Angeles, and in New York City on Broadway). The original poster for the show. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) by Pompeo Batoni The Prodigal Son is one of the best known parables of Jesus. ... Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. ... Jesus, also known as Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity, most of the adherents of which worship him as the Messiah, son of God, and God incarnate. ... Judas (יהודה Praise, Standard Hebrew Yəhuda, Tiberian Hebrew Yəhûḏāh) is the name of several men in late Jewish and New Testament history. ... The Rocky Horror Show was a long running stage musical (in London initially, on June 16, 1973) which inspired the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show. ... The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish; Los Ángeles, ) also known simply as L.A., is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the worlds most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers. ... New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is the largest financial center in the world. ...

Kim also appeared in the plays Henry Sweet Henry, 1976, Your Own Thing, Rockabye Hamlet (1975-76, Laertes), More Than You Deserve, Sunset, and All Bets Off. Kim played in all the major clubs in New York City and Los Angeles with his own band and was lead singer in the Jeff Beck Group (Aug-Sept '72). He also worked on television in the movies Song of the Succubus (with Brooke Adams) and Rock-A-Die-Baby (aka Night of the Full Moon), both on 1975 on ABC's Wild World of Entertainment, and in which Kim performed his own music; and on TV in Mannix (Portrait in Blues), The Highwayman, and Sonny Spoon. Kim also starred in the feature films Laserblast, Bloodbrothers, Corvette Summer, Escape, Nightmare at Noon, and Wired to Kill. Brooke Adams is an American actress born on February 8, 1949 in New York, New York. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... ABC were an English pop band of the 1980s, who scored a total of 10 top 40 hit singles between 1981 and 1990. ...

According to an interview in the October 1974 issue of Viva magazine, Kim was recording an album titled "Chain Your Lovers to the Bedposts" and a single, "Help is on the Way, Rozea" Kim's known recordings include the single "Muddy River Water" (Decca), the Sunset soundtrack, Roxy Cast album of Rocky Horror Picture Show, and his song "Justice" on the 'Ciao! Manhattan' (Edie Sedgwick) movie. Kim also wrote the music for "Salome," based on the Oscar Wilde play, and starred in it at the Mark Taper Fo-rum in Los Angeles in 1979, and also wrote and performed "My Love Is A Rebel" on the soundtrack of Runnymede films' "Limbo", starring Barry Bostwick. In addition, he's on some bootlegs of the August-September 1972 Jeff Beck concerts. He also did one or possibly two albums with his group Moon; they were the band in the two TV movies above and were co-writers on several songs with Ron Dante, which include Lovin' Lady, Jo Anna, and She's Puttin' Me Through Changes. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Barry Bostwick, (born February 24, 1946 in San Mateo, California), is an American actor, particularly associated with made-for-television movies and mini-series. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... The electric guitarist Jeff Beck (born June 24, 1944) is a British rock musician who played in a number of influential bands in the 1960s. ...

The negative critical reaction in New York to what had been the Roxy's longest running musical ever came as a surprise to Kim and the entire cast, but everyone, Kim included, gave it their all, fine-tuning the show and turning in their very best work up until the final performance. Kim was a Christian Scientist, and was proud never to have missed a performance of Rocky Horror even when he was handicapped by a devastating tailbone injury that made locomotion excruciatingly painful. The Church of Christ, Scientist, often known as The Christian Science Church, is a nontrinitarian Protestant Christian denomination, founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879. ... The coccyx, commonly referred to as the tailbone, is the final segment of the human vertebral column, of three to five (usually four) fused vertebrae (the coccygeal vertebrae), below the sacrum. ...

Milford died in Chicago on June 16, 1988 of heart failure, after having undergone open heart surgery several weeks earlier. He was only 37 years old. Cardiac surgery is surgery on the heart, typically to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (e. ...

Films

• Laserblast (1978) - Billy Duncan
• Bloodbrothers (aka A Father's Love, 1978) - Butler
• Corvette Summer (aka The Hot One, 1978) - Wayne Lowry
• Wired to Kill (aka Booby Trap, 1986) - Rooster
• Escape (1990) - Zoka
• Nightmare at Noon (1990) - Albino's Henchman

Low budget 1978 sci-fi production that has reached cult status. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Escape could mean any of the following: Look up Escape on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Escape is the act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. ...

Television

• Rock-A-Die, Baby (aka Night of the Full Moon) (1975 TV)
• Song of the Succubus (1975 TV)

Broadway

• Henry Sweet Henry (1967)
• Hair - Woof/Claude (1968)
• 1776
• Your Own Thing - Sebastian
• More Than You Deserve - Wiley/Trout (1974)
• Rocky Horror Show - Rocky (LA 1973) (NYC 1975).
• Rockabye Hamlet - Laertes (1975-76)

The original poster for the show. ... 1776 is the title of a 1969 Broadway musical and its 1972 film version. ... The Rocky Horror Show was a long running stage musical (in London initially, on June 16, 1973) which inspired the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show. ...

Other Theatre

• Jesus Christ Superstar (Original concert version) - Jesus/Judas (1971)
• Salome (1979)
• Sunset - Danger Dan (1983)

Music

Albums

• "Chain Your Lovers to the Bedposts"
• Sunset soundtrack
• "Bat Out of Hell" (he was Jim Steinman's original choice before Meat Loaf)

Singles

• "Help is on the Way, Rozea"
• "Muddy River Water"

Cast Performances

• Roxy Cast album of Rocky Horror Show

Composer

• "Song of Succubus"
• "Justice" on the 'Ciao! Manhattan' (Edie Sedgewick) soundtrack
• "Salome"
• My Love Is A Rebel (soundtrack of Runnymede films) "Limbo" (starring Barry Bostwick)
• "Lovin' Lady", "Jo Anna", and "She's Puttin' Me Through Changes" (Kim Milford/Ron Dante)