---
name: "Evan Richards"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/evan-richards"
fi1m_id: "evan-richards"
imdb_id: "nm0724084"
tmdb_id: 88519
wikidata_id: "Q124708551"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 March 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T19:51:10.984255+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Evan Richards

## Identity

Evan Richards

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/evan-richards
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** evan-richards
- **IMDb ID:** nm0724084
- **TMDB ID:** 88519
- **Wikidata ID:** Q124708551
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124708551, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724084/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/88519

Actor. Born 25 March 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 March 1978, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Active:** 1983–1986
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124708551, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724084/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/88519

## Biography

Evan Richards is an American actor and filmmaker. He began his career as a child performer in theatre, appearing on Broadway in productions including *Copperfield* and *Evita*, and in the CBS series *Mama Malone*.

Richards is known for playing Max Whiteman in the 1986 film *Down and Out in Beverly Hills* and its 1987 Fox television series adaptation. His other acting credits include *Twilight Zone: The Movie* (1983), *Society* (1989), *Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures* (1990–92) and *Mute Witness* (1995).

As a writer and director, Richards has made short films including *Woman X* (shortlisted for a BAFTA) and *Cloud Nine*, and the feature *In a Day* (2006), which screened at festivals, won awards and received distribution by IFC Films.

*Sources: imdb.com, evanrichards.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Down and Out in Beverly Hills* (1986), Fi1m 65, as Max Whiteman — [page](https://film.one/film/down-and-out-in-beverly-hills.md)
- *Twilight Zone: The Movie* (1983), Fi1m 63, as Young Mr. Agee — [page](https://film.one/film/twilight-zone-the-movie.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Cognitive* (2025), Writer, Director
- *The Scenario* (2024), Director, Producer
- *Fanny Lye Deliver'd* (2019), Associate Producer
- *Two People, One Ring* (2019), Writer, Editor, Director, Producer, Director of Photography
- *There's a Monster Behind You* (2018), Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
- *In a Day* (2006), Director, Writer, Co-Producer
- *Woman X* (2002), Co-Producer, Writer, Director
- *Cloud Nine* (2001), as Daniel · Writer
- *The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence* (1999), as Lowell Thomas
- *Mute Witness* (1995), as Andy Clarke
- *Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity* (1995), Actor
- *Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures* (1992), series, as Bill S. Preston, Esq.
- *Midnight Fear* (1991), as David
- *Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever* (1991), as Mag
- *Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures* (1990), series, as Bill S. Preston (voice)
- *Society* (1990), as Milo
- *Down and Out in Beverly Hills* (1987), series, as Max Whiteman
- *The Mouse and the Motorcycle* (1986), as Ralph (voice)
- *Down and Out in Beverly Hills* (1986), as Max Whiteman — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/down-and-out-in-beverly-hills.md)
- *Mama Malone* (1984), series, as Frankie Karamkopoulos
- *Two Kinds of Love* (1983), as Jud
- *Twilight Zone: The Movie* (1983), as Young Mr. Agee — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/twilight-zone-the-movie.md)
- *Moonlight* (1982), as Sean
- *Altered States* (1980), as Young Rosenberg

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