{"id":807866,"date":"2026-10-19T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807866\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T19:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:46:10","slug":"office-space-star-richard-riehle-dead-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807866\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Office Space&#8217; Star Richard Riehle Dead at 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          &#8216;Office Space&#8217; Actor<br \/>\n                          Richard Riehle Dead at 78<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              October 19, 2026<br \/>\n                            9:35 AM PDT<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                                                                Updated<br \/>\n                                  October 19, 2026<br \/>\n                                12:07 PM PDT\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20261019_9d328d627cf94ec78015990284ac2026\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:aeb29297-1f22-4d3e-9991-c8be494504db\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9d328d627cf94ec78015990284ac2026_md.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Riehle getty 3\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richard Riehle &#8212; famous for his role as Tom Smykowski in &#8220;Office Space&#8221; &#8212; is dead &#8230; TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Richard tell TMZ &#8230; he died of natural causes last Thursday in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>He was an acclaimed character actor, appearing in over 400 projects during a long career in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Richard&#8217;s best known for his work in &#8220;Office Space&#8221; &#8230; he plays Tom, the product manager who gets laid off from Initech, survives a hit-and-run accident, and lands a massive financial settlement that allows him to follow his dreams and build his prototype &#8220;Jump to Conclusions&#8221; mat. He&#8217;s got tons of memorable scenes and lines, and is a cult favorite.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/be28fd25f87843f6b0892d2e3755cb14_md.png\" alt=\"101926_richard_riehle_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><br \/>\n                      MAY 2018<\/p>\n<p>The last time we caught up with Richard was back in 2018 in Los Angeles, after he had just gotten back from filming the Lifetime holiday movie &#8220;A Very Nutty Christmas&#8221; with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/melissa-joan-hart\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Joan Hart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Richard was 78.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Office Space&#8217; Actor Richard Riehle Dead at 78 Published October 19, 2026 9:35 AM PDT | Updated October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,50,101,1386,14472,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-807866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}