Orville "Rick" Wright

Magnum P.I. Character|Rick Wright


name=Orville Wilbur Richard Wright
height=5'6"
occupation=Manager of the King Kamehameha Club
seasons= 1-8
portrayer=Larry Manetti

Orville "Rick" Wright was a character in the 1980s television series "Magnum, P.I.". Rick is a suave and quite short playboy, and the manager of the King Kamehameha Club, an exclusive beachfront members-only club, owned by Robin Masters. Rick was played by Larry Manetti.

In the initial movie, (which was the predecessor of the series), Rick owned "Rick’s Cafe Americaine" (aka "The Ice Palace") - a reference to the movie "Casablanca". Rick also maintains a number of underworld contacts (one of whom is Francis “Icepick” Hofstettler, a loan shark, gang boss) and is an expert in weaponry.

Trivia

* His full name is Orville Wilbur Richard Wright (Resolutions II). He is often called Orville by T.C..
* Rick is 5 feet, 6 inches tall.
* Rick is a former sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, having served with the [http://www.angelfire.com/va/cherrydeuce/History.html VMO-2 Squadron] as T.C.’s door gunner during the Vietnam War.
* In brawls, Rick is easily dispatched by the opponents. It becomes a running gag in the series.
* He has a sister named Wendy, who is murdered in the fourth season. (Episode 4 : "Distant Relative")
* Icepick is his stepfather.
* He is a weapon collector, owning many AK-47s from the Vietnam War.
* He drives a Nissan 280ZX and also a Mercedes-Benz SL-Class.
* He, T.C., and Magnum each served three tours in Vietnam, during the War. The three buddies wear a gold Team Ring, which bears a Croix de Lorraine on a black field, as a bond of wartime camaraderie.
* Rick, an ostensible play-boy throughout the series with bikini-clad girls constantly in tow on his small yacht, th King Komehameha II, is engaged in the series finale to Chloe. The series ended on a cliffhanger note, as we never see whether or not Manetti's character said "I do".
* In the E! True Hollywood Story episode on the series, Donald Bellisario reveals that the character of Rick was designed to be a faithful impression of Humphrey Bogart's character of the same name from Casablanca. This is further evidenced in the restaurant owned and operated by Rick in the pilot ("Rick's Cafe Americaine"). According to Bellisario, the studio execs at CBS "just didn't get it," and asked that this gimmick be discontinued. For the remainder of the series, Larry Manetti simply played Rick as himself.

External links

* [http://magnum-mania.com/ "Magnum Mania"]