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Michael Ritchie

Highest Rated: 100% Divine Madness (1980)

Lowest Rated: 6% The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)

Birthday: Nov 28, 1938

Birthplace: Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

Wisconsin-born, California-raised Michael Ritchie gained early directorial experience as an undergraduate at Harvard, staging the original production of classmate Arthur Kopit's "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" in 1960. Following graduation he worked in series TV, directing episodes of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and "Dr. Kildare." Ritchie's first feature, "Downhill Racer" (1969), starring Robert Redford, was noted for its gripping skiing sequences, shot with hand-held 16mm cameras. His third film, "The Candidate" (1972), also starred Redford, and it remains one of the finest cinematic excoriations of the American political system.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 88% Divine Madness
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100% 70% Smile
Watchlist 97% 80% The Bad News Bears Watchlist
91% 49% The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
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89% 74% The Candidate
Watchlist 85% 58% Downhill Racer Watchlist
83% 33% Semi-Tough
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79% 81% Fletch
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71% 72% Prime Cut
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63% 78% Diggstown
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Michael Ritchie

Michael Ritchie DIGGSTOWN, director Michael Ritchie, 1992. ©MGM THE COUCH TRIP, director Michael Ritchie, David Clennon, on set, 1988. ©Orion Pictures THE SCOUT, director Michael Ritchie, Brendan Fraser, Albert Brooks, on set, 1994. TM and Copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. COPS AND ROBBERSONS, Director Michael Ritchie, on set, 1994. (c)TriStar Pictures THE SCOUT, director Michael Ritchie, on set, 1994. TM and Copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. View more photos

Filmography

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A Simple Wish 25% 41% 1997 Director The Fantasticks 50% 48% 1995 Director, Producer The Scout 33% 21% 1994 Director Cops and Robbersons 18% 23% 1994 Director The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom 91% 49% 1993 Director Diggstown 63% 78% 1992 Director Fletch Lives 35% 55% 1989 Director The Couch Trip 33% 44% 1988 Director The Golden Child 22% 47% 1986 Director Wildcats 30% 49% 1986 Director Fletch 79% 81% 1985 Director The Survivors 9% 45% 1983 Director Student Bodies 33% 52% 1981 Producer The Island 43% 50% 1980 Director Divine Madness 100% 88% 1980 Director An Almost Perfect Affair 57% 1979 Director The Bad News Bears Go to Japan 6% 28% 1978 Producer Semi-Tough 83% 33% 1977 Director The Bad News Bears 97% 80% 1976 Director Smile 100% 70% 1975 Director, Producer The Candidate 89% 74% 1972 Director Prime Cut 71% 72% 1972 Director Downhill Racer 85% 58% 1969 Director The Sound of Anger 1968 Director The Outsider 1967 Director
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