The last time Richard Riehle was caught up with, he was in Los Angeles in 2018, just back from filming A Very Nutty Christmas. That is the only fixed point the brief account gives: a final public marker before the story goes quiet.
People are looking for him now because the headline points to Richard Riehle being dead at 78, while the body text only reaches back to that 2018 moment. The result is a small but stark gap between what the headline implies and what the text actually establishes.
At that point, Riehle had just finished work on A Very Nutty Christmas, a Lifetime holiday movie that also included Melissa Joan Hart. The detail matters because it places him in a specific professional moment, not as a distant memory but as someone still active enough to be finishing a film and returning to Los Angeles.
What the brief does not do is explain anything beyond that. It does not say what happened after 2018, and it does not fill in the headline’s reference to him being dead at 78. So the only confirmed endpoint in the text is the one it already gives: the last public contact was in Los Angeles, after that film wrapped, and everything beyond it remains outside the record provided here.
