Richard "Richie" Gecko

Richard "Richie" Gecko is a protagonist villain of the 1996 Horror Comedy crime film, From Dusk Till Dawn.

He was played by Quentin Tarantino.

He and his brother, Seth Gecko, rob a bank and then go to a store to get a map. There, the 2 brothers kill the store owner and texas ranger, because Richie accuses the store owner for giving hints that the 2 criminals are there and after Richie kills the texas ranger the store owner tries to kill Richie but gets killed by Seth Gecko. After a fire burns the store to the ground, Richie gets his hand shot and he and Seth stop at a motel, where they unload a bank teller hostage and contact Carlos, their contact, who will provide them with a safe house in Mexico so they don't get arrested. Seth tells the bank teller hostage that if she doesn't try to escape that they won't kill her.

But while Seth is out sight-seeing and buys food, Richie rapes and kills the bank teller hostage. Furiously Seth finds out and says that he's a professional thief and not a murderer or rapist. Then when the Fuller Family makes their arrival at the motel, Seth and Richie plan to kidnap them and get them using their RV to take them into Mexico the Fuller Family agrees. Richie tries to seduce and come on to Kate Fuller but Seth stops him from doing so.

When a cop at the border is searching the RV, Richie attempts to argue with Seth saying they are going to find and this was bad idea and that Seth was calling him names. Richie gets knocked out by Seth and they make it into Mexico across the border and drive and stop at the strip club and brothel, the Titty Twister. When they go inside and drink, Richie takes a shine at the Titty Twister's top performer, Santanico Pandemonium, and then Chet Pussy and a cadre of other workers come to their table and fight them stabbing Richie's shot hand, which sets in motion Santanico Pandemonium, all the workers, strippers, and band to turn into vampires. Santanico Pandemonium attacks and bites Richie, which turns him into a vampire.

Seth tells the other humans not to kill Richie but they say to him that he's not his brother anymore and he's now a vampire. Seth tells Richie he loves him and he tells Seth he loves him too and then proceeds to attack him. Seth orders the rest of the humans to hold Richie down and then with sadness kills Richie.