
Richard was born to Clayton Eugene and Bessie Jewel Holt Locke, the third of four children: his older brother Clay, Jr., older sister Janet and younger brother Robert.
Richard died of AIDS after battling the disease for more than thirteen years. Many people in the gay community consider Richard an "AIDS Hero" since his activism in the early years of the epidemic, soon to turn pandemic, did manage to bring illumination about the disease and how to live with it.

Positive Men
1995 · as Self

An Evening With Richard Locke
1992 · as Self

5B
2018 · as Himself

Pool Party
1975 · as Nick

Love a Man with a Beard 3
1984 · as (archive footage)

Kansas City Trucking Co.
1976 · as Hank

Daddy Dearest
1984 · as Daddy

Cruisin' the Castro
1981

L.A. Tool & Die
1979 · as Hank

Take One
1977

Forbidden Letters
1979 · as Richard

El Paso Wrecking Corp.
1977 · as Hank

Gemini
1977

Heatstroke
1982 · as Shep

Passing Strangers
1974 · as Man in baths

The Diamond Stud
1995 · as Bhudda, Diamond's Manager

Dreamer
1974

Hairy Muscle Daddy 3
2011 · as (archive footage)