Dick Richards - Turner Classic Movies

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Dick Richards worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. Richards worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Her Kind of Man" (1946), "The Culpepper Cattle Company" with Gary Grimes (1972) and "The Grasshopper" (1970). He continued to work in film in the seventies and the eighties, directing motion pictures like "Farewell, My L...

Filmography

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Man, Woman and Child (1983)

Death Valley (1981)

March Or Die (1977)

Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975)

The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)

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Farewell, My Lovely (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Did You Ever Catch My Act?

Farewell, My Lovely (1975) -- (Movie Clip) To Hell With Polite Drinking

Biography

Dick Richards worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. Richards worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Her Kind of Man" (1946), "The Culpepper Cattle Company" with Gary Grimes (1972) and "The Grasshopper" (1970). He continued to work in film in the seventies and the eighties, directing motion pictures like "Farewell, My Lovely" (1975) with Robert Mitchum, the Alan Arkin dramatic comedy "Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins" (1975) and "Death Valley" (1981) with Paul Le Mat. Richards more recently directed the Martin Sheen drama "Man, Woman and Child" (1983).

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Man, Woman and Child (1983)

Death Valley (1981)

March Or Die (1977)

Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975)

The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)

Cast (Feature Film)

The Grasshopper (1970)

The "Imp"probable Mr. Wee Gee (1966)

Girl Fever (1961)

Dear Brat (1951)

The King of Kings (1927)

Writer (Feature Film)

March Or Die (1977)

The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)

Producer (Feature Film)

March Or Die (1977)

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Farewell, My Lovely (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Did You Ever Catch My Act? Beginning the two-scene performance that won Sylvia Miles her second Academy Award nomination, as Raymond Chandler’s boozy former showgirl Jessie Florian, visited by Robert Mitchum as an older, wearier Philip Marlowe, in 1941 L-A, in director Dick Richards’ film from David Zelag Goodman’s screenplay, Farewell, My Lovely, 1975.

Farewell, My Lovely (1975) -- (Movie Clip) To Hell With Polite Drinking More than 40-minutes into the picture, shooting at the since-burned Max Busch house in Pasadena, Robert Mitchum narrates as Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, on a case that is, for now, unrelated to the initial investigation, introducing second-billed Charlotte Rampling as Mrs. Grayle, and the now-revered writer Jim Thompson in his only movie role as her power-broker husband, in Farewell, My Lovely, 1975.

Farewell, My Lovely (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Buy Yourself A New Suit Summoned to a plush 1941 L-A nightclub, Robert Mitchum as P-I Philip Marlowe, older than ever imagined by Raymond Chandler, consults with his neither client nor love-interest Mrs. Grayle (Charlotte Rampling) about her ancient husband (legendary writer Jim Thompson) and fixer Laird Burnette (Anthony Zerbe), later directly in Farewell, My Lovely, 1975.

Farewell, My Lovely (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Tired And Growing Old Striking an odd balance here, Robert Mitchum, who could have played Philip Marlowe in the 1940’s, instead plays him in 1975, though much older than Raymond Chandler ever wrote him, in a period story set in 1941, through David Zelag Goodman’s adaptation and Dick Richards’ direction, opening Farewell, My Lovely, John Ireland and Harry Dean Stanton his cop buddies.

Farewell, My Lovely (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Ten Dollars For Elephants On a routine case collecting a straying teen (Noelle North, Lola Mason and Wally Berns her parents) in 1941 L-A, Robert Mitchum as private eye Philip Marlowe narrates and cracks wise, introducing ex-boxer Jack O’Halloran as Moose Malloy, Dick Richards directing from David Zelag Goodman’s adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel, in Farewell, My Lovely, 1975.

Culpepper Cattle Co., The (1972) -- (Movie Clip) I've Been Makin' Plans Director Dick Richards’ exuberant opening, Gary Grimes as Ben and Charles (“Charlie”) Martin Smith as Tim, Texas teens racing their wagons, in the well-recieved if not overly successful 1972 “revisionist” Western The Culpepper Cattle Co..

Culpepper Cattle Co., The (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Sit Downwind Son culpeppercattleco_sitdownwindson_FC

Culpepper Cattle Co., The (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Do You Wanna Search Your Soul? Greenhorn Ben (Gary Grimes) is surprised to be asked along as Culpepper (Billy “Green” Bush) leads his men (Matt Clark, Luke Askew et al) to confront the rustlers who, it turns our, are led by “Old Man” Royal Dano, in B>The Culpepper Cattle Co., 1972, directed by Dick Richards.

Tootsie (1982) -- (Movie Clip) Can I Call You Dotty? Michael (Dustin Hoffman), standing up erstwhile girlfriend Sandy (Teri Garr), and known to his fellow soap opera cast members only as "Dorothy," arrives to run lines and share dinner with new friend Julie (Jessica Lange) who, it turns out, has a child, in Tootsie, 1982.

Tootsie (1982) -- (Movie Clip) No One Will Hire You Angry that he wasn't sent to audition for the Eugene O'Neill play, Michael (Dustin Hoffman) rushes to see his agent George (director Sydney Pollack), with whom he tangles about his career, a famous scene from Tootsie, 1982.

Tootsie (1982) -- (Movie Clip) I Said Good Day, Sir! Moments after Michael's (Dustin Hoffman) first appearance in drag, he auditions for the soap, meeting director Ron (Dabney Coleman), producer Rita (Doris Belack, herself a daytime-drama veteran) and actress Julie (Jessica Lange), ending with a famous line, in Sydney Pollack's Tootsie, 1982.

Tootsie (1982) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Michael Dorsey After the extended opening in which Michael (Dustin Hoffman) has no luck getting any parts, we join the actor and his playwright roommate Jeff (Bill Murray) working at the restaurant, heading home, meeting Sandy (Teri Garr) among others, in Sydney Pollack's Tootsie, 1982.

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