Richard White is an American actor, voice actor, and opera singer, who played the character of Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat at Paper Mill Playhouse and Robert Mission in The New Moon, at the New York City Opera. White also created the title role of Erik in the world premiere of Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston's musical, Phantom and sings the role on the original cast recording. White is a 1971 graduate of Bethel Park High School.
For Disney, he is most famous for voicing the character of Gaston from the Beauty and the Beast franchise. In a 1991 interview with Newsweek promoting the film, White said that he based Gaston on overconfident jocks he had seen during his teenage years and believed that "had Gaston made it to 30, he would have been twice-divorced with possible hypertension problems." He even voiced Ricky Hoodson and Tolga Trunkov in The Adventures of Cars. He played Robot Bug #3 in the 2017 biographical film, Percy the Green Engine and the Tomato Cucumber-Pariah.
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