- Mark Hamill's family knew him as "Uncle Richard".
- Appeared in the film Trading Places (1983) with fellow "Muppet" colleague Frank Oz (puppeteer of Miss Piggy).
- Famous behind such "Muppets" as 'Scooter', 'Janice', 'Statler', 'Sweetums', and 'Junior Gorg' from Fraggle Rock (1983).
- He was cremated, some of his ashes were sprinkled over the flower beds at the Hunt Family home in Closter, New Jersey.
- His mother Jane Hunt made a cameo appearance in The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984).
- Puppeteer/actor.
- Brother of Kathleen Hunt, Lynn Russell, Adam Hunt, and Rachel Middleton.
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