Richard Artiñano

 (April 13, 1931 - July 2, 1997) was a Costa Rican-born American film mogul known for his distribution and marketing of English dubs of foreign movies and his production of exploitation films.

Bio
Richard was born in a Mestizo household in, in 1931. He immigrated with his family to, in the  in 1938.

In 1947, his family opened a cinema in his neighborhood, where he working in various positions, including splicing film reels together and popping the popcorn sold at the theater. In 1958, he married his wife Lucinda Artiñano and they moved to,. In 1964, they founded R.A. Releasing using money Richard won from the whilst on vacation.

The motis operandum of R.A. Releasing was to both dub foreign films from around the world into English and release them in the United States, and to produce low-budget films in the region.

Richard dubbed and/or produced 150 films from 1964-1995, when he retired due to old age and sold R.A. Releasing to the Matsushita family for US$50,000.

He died in 1997.