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Richard Fleischer
Life Time
8 December 1916 - 25 March 2006
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Richard O. Fleischer was born on December 8, 1916 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. The son of the famous animator Max Fleischer. He studied psychology at Brown University, then moved to Yale, the Department of Dramatic Art. At the age of 21, Richard Fleischer organized a theater troupe in a student town. In 1942, he began working for the New York branch of RKO-Pathe, where he edited news videos. Later, Fleischer got the opportunity to work as a director, writer and producer on small projects - on the
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Richard O. Fleischer was born on December 8, 1916 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. The son of the famous animator Max Fleischer. He studied psychology at Brown University, then moved to Yale, the Department of Dramatic Art. At the age of 21, Richard Fleischer organized a theater troupe in a student town. In 1942, he began working for the New York branch of RKO-Pathe, where he edited news videos. Later, Fleischer got the opportunity to work as a director, writer and producer on small projects - on the series "This Is America" and silent shorts "Flicker Flashbacks". In 1946, he went to Hollywood, where he produced short films; his last documentary, Design for Death (1948), won an Oscar. While making B films, he was well-received for The Bodyguard (1948), Follow Me Quietly (1949) and The Narrow Edge (1952). Subsequently, the director moved to the MGM studio, and then worked for Walt Disney, where he first staged the large-budget project 20,000 Leagues Underwater (1954). Declaring himself as a skilled specialist in the genre of "action", Richard Fleischer put such commercially successful paintings as "Vikings" (1958), "This Thousand Hills" (1959), "Fantastic Journey" (1966), as well as criminal thrillers "Coercion" (1959), "Boston Strangler" (1968). At the same time, his successes were punctuated by outright failures, such as Dr. Doolittle (1967) and Che! (1969). However, the director continued to actively shoot with varying success until the late 1980s, noting such famous films as Torah! Torah! Torah! (1970), The New Centurions (1972), Conan the Destroyer (1984). In the early 1990s, Richard Fleischer retired from film, focusing on his father’s creative legacy. In 1994, he published his memoir, Just Tell Me When to Scream.