Richard C. Sarafian

Director

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Also Known As

Richard Sarafian, Alan Smithee

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

April 28, 1925

Died

September 18, 2013

Cause of Death

Complications From Pneumonia

Biography

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Worked in TV before turning out some fine 1960s films, including the low-budget "Andy" (1965), a poignant portrait of a retarded man living in a New York slum, and the British-made "Run Wild, Run Free" (1969), a beautifully played and photographed tale of a mute boy's caring relationship with a white colt. Sarafian hit his creative peak early in the next decade with the cultish, existent...

Filmography

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Solar Crisis (1992)

Street Justice (1989)

Eye of the Tiger (1986)

The Bear (1984)

Splendor in the Grass (1981)

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Run Wild, Run Free (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Deep In The Black Peat

Run Wild, Run Free (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Come, Philip

Biography

Worked in TV before turning out some fine 1960s films, including the low-budget "Andy" (1965), a poignant portrait of a retarded man living in a New York slum, and the British-made "Run Wild, Run Free" (1969), a beautifully played and photographed tale of a mute boy's caring relationship with a white colt. Sarafian hit his creative peak early in the next decade with the cultish, existential road movie "Vanishing Point" (1971) and the offbeat western "The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing" (1973).

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Solar Crisis (1992)

Street Justice (1989)

Eye of the Tiger (1986)

The Bear (1984)

Splendor in the Grass (1981)

Disaster On The Coastliner (1979)

A Killing Affair (1977)

The Next Man (1976)

One of Our Own (1975)

Lolly Madonna XXX (1973)

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)

Man in the Wilderness (1971)

Fragment of Fear (1971)

Vanishing Point (1971)

Run Wild, Run Free (1969)

Run Wild, Run Free (1969)

Terror at Black Falls (1962)

Cast (Feature Film)

Masked & Anonymous (2003)

Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)

Picking Up the Pieces (2000)

Blue Streak (1999)

Blink of an Eye (1999)

Bulworth (1998)

Miami Hustle (1996)

Don Juan de Marco (1994)

Sex, Love and Cold Hard Cash (1993)

Street Justice (1989)

To Die For (1988)

Long Time Gone (1986)

Songwriter (1984)

The Next Man (1976)

Writer (Feature Film)

The Next Man (1976)

The Notorious Mr. Monks (1958)

The Man Who Died Twice (1958)

The Cool and the Crazy (1958)

Story and Screenplay

Producer (Feature Film)

Terror at Black Falls (1962)

Director (Special)

The African Queen (1977)

Lost Treasure (1971)

Cast (Short)

The Movie Makers (1973)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

Mario Puzo's The Last Don II (1998)

Life Events

Videos

Run Wild, Run Free (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Deep In The Black Peat One-sided conversation, as the Colonel (John Mills) shares his thoughts with his mute young friend Philip (Mark Lester), in Run Wild, Run Free, 1969, from the book and screenplay by David Rook.

Run Wild, Run Free (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Come, Philip Mute Philip (Mark Lester) wandering the moors (on location in Dartmoor National Park, Devon, UK), meets the horse for the second time and appears to name it after himself, his first speech, the colonel (John Mills) observing at a distance,in Run Wild, Run Free, 1969.

Vanishing Point (1971) -- (Movie Clip) You Got To Believe Rita Coolidge and David Gates (from “Bread”) feature in this version of Delaney & Bonnie (Bramlett) And Friends, appearing as the revival band for J. Hovah (Severn Darden), who receives Prospector (Dean Jagger) and fugitive Kowalski (Barry Newman), in Vanishing Point, 1971.

Vanishing Point (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Without A Net Introduction of Cleavon Little, featured as DJ "Super," in a non-specified Nevada town, his signal reaching Kowalski (Barry Newman), who's name we haven't actually learned, still in Colorado, dropping some motorcycle cops and having an earlier-career flashback, in Vanishing Point, 1971.

Vanishing Point (1971) -- (Movie Clip) That Isn't Even A Felony R-rated material here, as a Nevada deputy (Owen Bush) hears from Colorado of offenses committed by Kowalski (Barry Newman) before he crossed the state line, and when he stops for gas, another piece of his backstory, in Vanishing Point, 1971, directed by Richard C. Sarafian.

Man In The Wilderness (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Zach Fought Against Life John Huston as Captain Henry, leader of the hunting expedition, instructs Lowrie (Dennis Waterman), being left behind to monitor the presumed death of bear-attack victim Zach (Richard Harris, experiencing a flashback), along with the less patient Fogerty (Percy Herbert), in Man In The Wilderness, 1971, based on the same story asThe Revenant, 2015.

Man In The Wilderness (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Sorrow Never Helped Anyone Precisely the scene made famous with Leonardo DiCaprio in Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu’s Academy Award-winner The Revenant, 2015, based roughly on the same uncorroborated story, of trapper Hugh Glass, Richard Harris in the lead role, attacked by a bear near the Upper Missouri, ca. 1820, in Man In The Wilderness, 1971.

Man In The Wilderness (1971) -- (Movie Clip) I Should've Been There Finally regaining consciousness, left for dead by his hunting expedition companions along the Upper Missouri, Richard Harris as Zach Glass recalls his wife Grace (Prunella Ransome), and tries to improve his condition, in Man In The Wilderness, 1971, directed by Richard C. Sarafian.

Run Wild, Run Free (1969) -- (Movie Clip) I Want To Love Him Following the credits, alarming first scenes as mute Philip, at three ages (finally Mark Lester) wanders from home, mother (Sylvia Syms) and father (Gordon Jackson) ever more frustrated, in Run Wild, Run Free, 1969.

Bugsy -- (Movie Clip) Jack Dragna Ben (Warren Beatty) makes a business call on L.A. racketeer Jack Dragna (Richard C. Sarafian) in director Barry Levinson's Bugsy, 1991, from a script by James Toback.

Songwriter - (Original Trailer) Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson team up to stop a crooked promoter in Alan Rudolph's Songwriter (1984).

Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, The - (Original Trailer) A vengeful outlaw (Burt Reynolds) protects a woman from his gang in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973).

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