Richard Harrow is a fictional character on the television series Boardwalk Empire, played by the actor Jack Huston.

He was badly disfigured during the war, losing his eye, upper jaw and most of the cheekbone on the left side of his face.

[1][2] After the war he returned to Plover, Wisconsin where his twin sister, Emma (Katherine Waterston), cared for him while his wounds healed.

Richard meets fellow veteran Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) in an army hospital in Chicago,[3] and they become fast friends.

After a truce is made between Nucky and Arnold Rothstein to resolve their conflict, Richard, Jimmy, and Al Capone (Stephen Graham) are dispatched to assassinate the remaining D'Alessio brothers.

Jimmy and Richard have now gone into business with Charlie "Lucky" Luciano (Vincent Piazza), Meyer Lansky (Anatol Yusef), and Capone.

Richard serves as Jimmy's lieutenant throughout a turf war with Nucky, and remains loyal even as they suffer serious financial losses.

On New Year's Eve, Richard waits outside Horvitz's house, and after killing his driver, shoots him in the face with a shotgun as he is leaving to pursue a thief who stole from one of Nucky's warehouses.

It is here that Richard meets Paul Sagorsky (Mark Borkowski), a bitter drunk who lost his son in the war.

Later in the season, Gillian's brothel is occupied by New York gangster Gyp Rosetti (Bobby Cannavale), who is at war with Nucky.

As he prepares to shoot Narcisse, he hesitates and his hand shakes, and he accidentally kills White's daughter Maybelle (Christina Jackson) when she unexpectedly steps into the line of fire.

[3] Richard is mortally wounded in the ensuing gunfire, but manages to make his way to the Atlantic City Boardwalk, where he crawls to safety underneath it.

Harrow has a final vision of returning home, to the loving embrace of his family, before he removes his mask and dies in the sand.

Huston stated that at first "Richard was a brilliant killer"; then he gave up killing, losing confidence; later, he was intuitive and expected himself to err; after shooting Maybelle he hesitated, allowing himself to be shot.