Tex Richman

""I don't want to eat them, I don't want to turn them into gold, all I want now is to DESTROY THEM!""

- Chris CooperI play Tex Richman. An oil man who knows there's oil under the Muppet studios, and he’s going to find some way, ANY way, to knock down that studio and get that oil. Tex is the heavy. Needless to say, right?

Tex Richman is the villain of the upcoming Disney film The Muppets. He is an oil driller and his goal is to destroy the Muppet Theater so he can drill for the oil which in the film, has been recently discovered. He personally hates the Muppets and, according to his description on the film's official site, he blames them for an unfortunate event at his tenth birthday party. He has an inability to laugh and has vowed to destroy them. He is assisted by Uncle Deadly.

Tex Richman is played by Chris Cooper.