I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

In 1995 he performed a select number of shows as the devilish charmer Mephistopheles Smith in a musical/comedy show he wrote entitled Disgracefully Yours which was later given permission to be adapted into a musical performed first by Eubank Productions for the Kansas City Fringe Fest in 2006 and more recently by Janus Theatre Company for the Edinburgh Fringe 2007 simply entitled Mephistopheles Smith. He is also a patron of the Five Stars Scanner Appeal which benefits the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. Zee (1976) Disaster (1978) The Stripper (1982– based on the Carter Brown novel and produced in Australia) and Top People (1984).

He is perhaps best known for writing the cult musical The Rocky Horror Show and for his role in presenting the popular TV show The Crystal Maze. Richard Timothy Smith (born 25 March 1942) better known under his stage name Richard O'Brien is an English writer actor television presenter and theatre performer. In addition to writing The Rocky Horror Show O'Brien also co-wrote the screenplay of the 1975 film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show and appeared in the film himself as the character Riff Raff.