Biography
Richard Holmes (born 1 January 1963) is a British film producer. He began his career as part of the comedy duo The Gruber Brothers with Stefan Schwartz and later produced Schwartz's debut feature Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1993).
Holmes co-wrote and produced Shooting Fish (1997). He produced Waking Ned (1998) with Glynis Murray, for which they received a Producers Guild of America Award nomination. Subsequent credits include Eden Lake (2008) and executive producer roles on God's Own Country (2017), 45 Years (2015) and The Ritual (2017). He has also acted under the name Otto Jarman.
Holmes served as managing director of Civilian Content Plc from 1999 to 2002. He co-founded the New Producers Alliance and was Vice-Chairman for Film at PACT.
