Richard Fleischer

1916-2006

Biography: life and films

Richard Fleischer was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA on 8th December 1916 and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA on 25th March 2006, aged 89.

His best films as a film director include Armored Car Robbery (1950), Compulsion (1959), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and 10 Rillington Place (1971).

Richard Fleischer directed 47 films (including 1 short).

His most frequent genres include: drama (30 films), Thriller (9), crime-thriller (8), comedy (5), history (4), Western (4), Fantasy (4), Biography (4), romance (3), comedy-drama (2), War (2) and Horror (2).

Our average rating for Richard Fleischer over all films is: 3.0

Filmography

Key: d = director; w = writer

Child of Divorce (1946) [d]

Banjo (1947) [d]

Bodyguard (1948) [d]

So This Is New York (1948) [d]

Follow Me Quietly (1949) [d]

Make Mine Laughs (1949) [d]

The Clay Pigeon (1949) [d]

Trapped (1949) [d]

Armored Car Robbery (1950) [d]

His Kind of Woman (1951) [d,w]

The Happy Time (1952) [d]

The Narrow Margin (1952) [d]

Arena (1953) [d]

20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) [d]

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) [d]

Violent Saturday (1955) [d]

Bandido (1956) [d]

Between Heaven and Hell (1956) [d]

The Vikings (1958) [d]

Compulsion (1959) [d]

These Thousand Hills (1959) [d]

Crack in the Mirror (1960) [d]

Barabba (1961) [d]

The Big Gamble (1961) [d]

Fantastic Voyage (1966) [d]

Doctor Dolittle (1967) [d]

The Boston Strangler (1968) [d]

Che! (1969) [d]

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) [d]

10 Rillington Place (1971) [d]

Blind Terror (1971) [d]

The Last Run (1971) [d]

The New Centurions (1972) [d]

Soylent Green (1973) [d]

The Don Is Dead (1973) [d]

Mr. Majestyk (1974) [d]

The Spikes Gang (1974) [d]

Mandingo (1975) [d]

The Incredible Sarah (1976) [d]

The Prince and the Pauper (1977) [d]

Ashanti (1979) [d]

The Jazz Singer (1980) [d]

Amityville 3-D (1983) [d]

Tough Enough (1983) [d]

Conan the Destroyer (1984) [d]

Red Sonja (1985) [d]

Million Dollar Mystery (1987) [d]



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