Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate and investor, best known as the founder of Virgin Group, which comprises more than 400 companies.   At the age of sixteen his first business venture was a magazine called Student.  In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores.  Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he set up Virgin Atlantic and expanded the Virgin Records music label. According to the Forbes 2012 list of billionaires, Branson is the sixth richest citizen of the United Kingdom, with an estimated net worth of US$4.6 billion. /Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Branson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia./

Filmography

• 2024Mrs Robinson
• 2010210 Days – Around the World with Jessica Watson — Narrator
• The Secret Caribbean with Trevor McDonald
• 2008Fuel — Self - Founder, Virgin Group
• Oh So Cosmo
• 2006Casino Royale — Man at Airport Security (uncredited)
• 2006Superman Returns — Shuttle Engineer
• The Colbert Report
• 2004Around the World in 80 Days — Balloon Man
• The Rebel Billionaire: Branson's Quest for the Best
• FBI Music Magazine
• Fox News Sunday
• TFI Friday
• Friends — Vendor
• 1990Condom
• Baywatch — Richard Branson
• Birds of a Feather — Richard Branson
• The Simpsons — Richard Branson (voice)
• 1984Electric Dreams — Executive Producer
• Russell Harty
• 1980The Space Movie — Producer
• 1980XTC at the Manor
• 1979Derek and Clive Get the Horn — Man with a Beard
• Horizon
• World in Action
• Discovery Live: Into The Blue Hole

Appearances as themselves (56)

• 2026Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly — Self
• 2025Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible — Self
• 2024DEVO — Self (archive footage)
• Branson — Self
• Amol Rajan Interviews — Self - Interviewed Guest
• 2021Eating Our Way to Extinction — Self
• 2021Send It! — Self (as Sir Richard Branson)
• 2021Space Titans: Musk, Bezos, Branson — Self
• The Secret Life of Lele Pons — Self
• 2018Farther and Sun: A Dyslexic Road Trip — Self
• 2018The Kodiak Queen — Self
• 2017Matthews — Self
• 2017The 21st Century Race For Space — Self
• The Russell Howard Hour — Self
• 2017Two Sevens Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers — Self
• 2016Chapter One: The Kiteboard Legacy Begins — Self - Rider
• 2016Don't Look Down — Self
• 2016Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne — Self (archive footage)
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• 2015Visioneer: The Peter Diamandis Story — Self
• ANIXE auf Reisen — Self
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Self
• 2014Nelson Mandela Redrawn — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2014We Are Many — Self
• 2013Miracle Rising: South Africa — Self
• 2013Tubular Bells: The Mike Oldfield Story — Self
• 2013When Albums Ruled the World — Self
• 2012Choice Point — Self
• Finding Your Roots — Self
• 2012The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia — Self
• 2012The Secret Policeman's Ball — Self
• 2011A Man's Story — Self
• Kate Garraway's Life Stories — Self
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Self
• Shark Tank — Self
• The Meaning of Life — Self
• 2006Rabbit Fever — Self
• Tripping Over — Self
• Iconoclasts — Self
• The X Factor — Self
• Open Access — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• 2002There's Only One Paul McCartney — Self
• Good Day Live — Self
• Richard & Judy — Self
• Click — Self
• 2000The Filth and the Fury — Self (archive footage)
• Loose Women — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• The Day Today — Self, Self (archive footage)
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• Going Live! — Self
• Question Time — Self - Panellist
• Omnibus — Self
• One Planet — Self