A native New Yorker, Richard began acting in the 1970s on stage in classics such as The Alchemist by Ben Jonson and Tom Jones at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. He is continually active in stage, film, television and commercial projects.

Richard has worked repeatedly on All My Children, appears in National Treasure 2, starring Nicholas Cage, and the Indie feature The Sins of the Fathers, playing "Dr. Ben Nichols", a psychiatrist investigating a woman's descent into madness. Richard also played "Ian Gallagher", the lead role in The Church, a TV series, and the lead in the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, world premiere of $40 Million, If You Want It. He has also appeared on The Wire, The FBI Files (Discovery Channel) multiple projects for The History Channel and on Psychic Witness (Discovery Channel).

His indie film work includes lead and major roles in The Sins of the Fathers, The Bronze Door and Macguffin (two Raymond Chandler stories), The Ward, The Sound of Traffic, Past Perfect and JuJu.