Orville "Rick" Wright
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| Magnum P.I. character | |
|---|---|
| Orville Wilbur Richard Wright | |
| Height: | 5'6" |
| Jobs Held: | Manager of the King Kamehameha Club |
| Portrayed by: | Larry Manetti |
| Seasons | 1-8 |
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.
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- 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 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 aslo 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.
