Richard Fleischer

<html> <head> <title>Richard Fleischer</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/653/000032557/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Richard FleischerAKA Richard O. FleischerBorn: <a href="/lists/860/000106542/" class=proflink>8-Dec</a>-<a href="/lists/915/000105600/" class=proflink>1916</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/436/000069229/" class=proflink>Brooklyn, NY</a> Died: <a href="/lists/967/000106649/" class=proflink>24-Mar</a>-<a href="/lists/891/000110561/" class=proflink>2006</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/785/000069578/" class=proflink>Woodland Hills, CA</a> Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Male Religion: <a href="/lists/875/000071662/" class=proflink>Jewish</a> Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: <a href="/lists/166/000068959/" class=proflink>Film Director</a>Nationality: United States Executive summary: Soylent GreenRichard Fleischer was a director who worked in virtually all genres and made dozens of movies, including efficient low-budget thrillers and all-star action-adventures. His films share no obvious style or philosophy, except that most were well-made and still hold an audience's attention, even decades after they were made. His best work includes the tense noir The Narrow Margin with <a href="/people/761/000092485/">Marie Windsor</a>, the solemn Pearl Harbor docudrama Tora! Tora! Tora!, and several films about killers, including 10 Rillington Place with <a href="/people/750/000023681/">Richard Attenborough</a>, The Boston Strangler with <a href="/people/005/000022936/">Tony Curtis</a>, and the Leopold & Loeb story Compulsion with <a href="/people/891/000023822/">Dean Stockwell</a> and <a href="/people/461/000032365/">Orson Welles</a>. Fleischer made some imaginative if now-dated science fiction films, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with <a href="/people/524/000024452/">Kirk Douglas</a> and <a href="/people/873/000023804/">James Mason</a>, the inner-body epic Fantastic Voyage with <a href="/people/225/000024153/">Raquel Welch</a>, and the doomsday appetite-suppressant Soylent Green with <a href="/people/961/000022895/">Charlton Heston</a>. He also made the overwrought Biblical drama Barabbas with <a href="/people/228/000032132/">Anthony Quinn</a>, the kids' musical Dr Dolittle with <a href="/people/132/000043003/">Rex Harrison</a>, the squeaky-clean adolescent comedy The Happy Time with <a href="/people/888/000065693/">Charles Boyer</a>, and a slave saga some audiences found offensive, Mandingo, wherein Mason owned <a href="/people/787/000030697/">Ken Norton</a>. Fleischer won his only Oscar for a post-WWII documentary he produced but did not direct, Design for Death (written by <a href="/people/454/000079217/">Dr. Seuss</a> and wife). He has been retired since the early 1990s. His father, Max Fleischer, was an animator famous for Betty Boop, Popeye, and Superman cartoons. The elder Fleischer produced some of the first cartoons with synchronized sound, made the first sing-along cartoons ("follow the bouncing ball") and invented the rotograph, an early device for showing live actors and cartoon characters in the same scene. Max's brother Dave Fleischer directed many Popeye shorts, but the brothers did not speak to each other in the last twenty years of their lives. Another brother, Lou, ran the music department at Fleischer Studios, and for years voiced Popeye's hamburger-hungry friend Wimpy. The Fleischers, father and son, have given Max Fleischer credit for inventing Betty Boop, but others dispute this claim, and argue for Grim Natwick, an employee of the Fleischer Studio.Father: Max Fleischer (animator, b. 19-Jul-1883, d. 11-Sep-1972 heart failure) Sister: Ruth Fleischer (b. 1907, d. 7-Jun-2001) Wife: Mary (three children) Son: Mark     University: <a href="/edu/519/000068315/">Brown University (dropped out)</a>     University: <a href="/edu/480/000068276/">Yale University</a>     FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR     <a href="/films/282/000257508/">Million Dollar Mystery (12-Jun-1987)</a>     <a href="/films/850/000036742/">Red Sonja (3-Jul-1985)</a>     <a href="/films/606/000033507/">Conan the Destroyer (29-Jun-1984)</a>     <a href="/films/171/000061985/">Amityville 3-D (18-Nov-1983)</a>     <a href="/films/001/000119641/">Tough Enough (20-May-1983)</a>     <a href="/films/612/000034510/">The Jazz Singer (19-Dec-1980)</a>     <a href="/films/029/000067825/">Ashanti (9-Mar-1979)</a>     <a href="/films/390/000078156/">Crossed Swords (17-Mar-1978)</a>     <a href="/films/142/000236431/">The Incredible Sarah (5-Nov-1976)</a>     <a href="/films/502/000065307/">Mandingo (7-May-1975)</a>     <a href="/films/170/000061984/">Mr. Majestyk (17-Jul-1974)</a>     <a href="/films/645/000036537/">The Spikes Gang (8-Jul-1974)</a>     <a href="/films/818/000254056/">The Don Is Dead (14-Nov-1973)</a>     <a href="/films/652/000032556/">Soylent Green (19-Apr-1973)</a>     <a href="/films/926/000067725/">The New Centurions (3-Aug-1972)</a>     <a href="/films/068/000067864/">Blind Terror (2-Sep-1971)</a>     <a href="/films/084/000083832/">The Last Run (7-Jul-1971)</a>     <a href="/films/790/000037679/">10 Rillington Place (12-May-1971)</a>     <a href="/films/709/000032613/">Tora! Tora! Tora! (23-Sep-1970)</a>     <a href="/films/056/000134651/">Che! (29-May-1969)</a>     <a href="/films/254/000039137/">The Boston Strangler (16-Oct-1968)</a>     <a href="/films/753/000036645/">Doctor Dolittle (5-Dec-1967)</a>     <a href="/films/272/000033173/">Fantastic Voyage (24-Aug-1966)</a>     <a href="/films/345/000033246/">Barabbas (10-Oct-1962)</a>     <a href="/films/396/000253634/">The Big Gamble (Jul-1961)</a>     <a href="/films/661/000234956/">Crack in the Mirror (19-May-1960)</a>     <a href="/films/641/000173122/">These Thousand Hills (6-May-1959)</a>     <a href="/films/466/000037355/">Compulsion (1-Apr-1959)</a>     <a href="/films/573/000040453/">The Vikings (11-Jun-1958)</a>     <a href="/films/431/000090161/">Between Heaven and Hell (11-Oct-1956)</a>     <a href="/films/428/000090158/">Bandido (Sep-1956)</a>     <a href="/films/061/000204446/">The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1-Oct-1955)</a>     <a href="/films/396/000083147/">Violent Saturday (Apr-1955)</a>     <a href="/films/454/000036346/">20000 Leagues Under the Sea (23-Dec-1954)</a>     <a href="/films/637/000252878/">Arena (24-Jun-1953)</a>     <a href="/films/451/000206830/">The Happy Time (30-Oct-1952)</a>     <a href="/films/360/000065165/">The Narrow Margin (3-May-1952)</a>     <a href="/films/378/000083129/">Armored Car Robbery (8-Jun-1950)</a>     <a href="/films/725/000219068/">Trapped (1-Oct-1949)</a>     <a href="/films/571/000133172/">Follow Me Quietly (7-Jul-1949)</a>     <a href="/films/570/000204955/">The Clay Pigeon (29-Jun-1949)</a>     <a href="/films/757/000219100/">Bodyguard (4-Sep-1948)</a>     <a href="/films/845/000260065/">So This Is New York (Jun-1948)</a>     <a href="/films/769/000278932/">Banjo (15-May-1947)</a>     <a href="/films/142/000269332/">Child of Divorce (15-Oct-1946)</a>     FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR     <a href="/films/491/000273669/">Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (5-May-2010)</a> · Himself Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=32557" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>

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