Richard Lewis, the actor and comedian known for his ... tortured act led to many TV and film roles. After appearing on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," he rose to prominence on the ...

Lewis was among the best-known names in a generation of comedians who came of age during the 1970s and ’80s, marked by a world-weary, sarcastic wit that mapped well onto the urban malaise in ...

(JTA) — Comedian Richard Lewis, who parlayed his neurotic Jewish ... to the soundtrack of “The Pawnbroker,” the grim 1964 film about a Holocaust survivor. He also is credited with the ...