Richard Fleischer
Highest Rated: 100% Compulsion (1959)
Lowest Rated: 0% Million Dollar Mystery (1987)
Birthday: Dec 8, 1916
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
The director of nearly 50 films, Richard Fleischer enjoyed an incredibly diverse career helming B-movie thrillers, effects-laden spectaculars, and star-studded epics. The son of animation innovator Max Fleischer, he began his filmmaking journey at RKO where his documentary short "Design for Death" (1947) earned him an Oscar as producer. He would be forever remembered for crafting one of cinema's greatest film noirs with "The Narrow Margin" (1952) and giving Walt Disney his first live-action hit with the big-budget adaptation of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954). He spent much of the following decade oscillating between true-crime stories and sweeping adventures with films like "The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing" (1955), "The Vikings" (1958), "Compulsion" (1959) and "Fantastic Voyage" (1966). Eventually, expensive disappoints like "Doctor Doolittle" (1967) and "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (1970) began to weaken his once unshakable stature with the studios of the day. Fleischer's later output consisted largely of a combination of cult-favorite genre films and outright embarrassments, "The New Centurions" (1972), "Soylent Green" (1973), "Mandingo" (1975) and "The Jazz Singer" (1980), among them. Well known in the industry for his ability to deal with such difficult personalities as Kirk Douglas, Orson Welles and Rex Harrison, Fleischer related some of the juiciest tales in his 1993 autobiography, Just Tell Me When to Cry. While never a household name, Fleischer nonetheless oversaw some of the most enjoyable cinematic offerings of the 20th Century.
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Richard Fleischer
Filmography
Movies
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96% |
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Cameraman: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff | Unknown (Character) | $20.0K | 2010 |
0% |
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Million Dollar Mystery | Director | $513.7K | 1987 |
21% |
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Red Sonja | Director | - | 1985 |
29% |
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Conan the Destroyer | Director | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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Tough Enough | Director | - | 1983 |
18% |
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Amityville: The Demon | Director | - | 1983 |
26% |
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The Jazz Singer | Director | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Ashanti | Director | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
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Crossed Swords | Director | - | 1978 |
30% | No Score Yet | The Incredible Sarah | Director | - | 1976 |
29% |
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Mandingo | Director | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
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The Spikes Gang |
Director, Producer |
- | 1974 |
83% |
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Mr. Majestyk | Director | - | 1974 |
60% |
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The Don Is Dead | Director | - | 1973 |
71% |
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Soylent Green | Director | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deadly Kiss | Director | - | 1973 |
60% |
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The New Centurions | Director | - | 1972 |
50% |
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The Last Run | Director | - | 1971 |
64% |
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10 Rillington Place | Director | - | 1971 |
56% |
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Blind Terror | Director | - | 1971 |
57% |
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Tora! Tora! Tora! | Director | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet |
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Che! | Director | - | 1969 |
88% |
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The Boston Strangler | Director | - | 1968 |
29% |
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Doctor Dolittle | Director | - | 1967 |
92% |
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Fantastic Voyage | Director | - | 1966 |
89% |
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Barabbas | Director | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Gamble | Director | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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Crack in the Mirror | Director | - | 1960 |
100% |
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Compulsion | Director | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El precio de la deshonra | Director | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet |
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These Thousand Hills | Director | - | 1959 |
77% |
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The Vikings | Director | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
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Between Heaven and Hell | Director | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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Bandido | Director | $4.1K | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing | Director | - | 1955 |
80% |
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Violent Saturday | Director | - | 1955 |
91% |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Director | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Arena | Director | - | 1953 |
100% |
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The Narrow Margin | Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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The Happy Time | Director | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Armored Car Robbery | Director | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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Trapped | Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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The Clay Pigeon | Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Make Mine Laughs | Director | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | So This Is New York | Director | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet |
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Bodyguard | Director | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Design for Death | Producer | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Banjo | Director | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Child of Divorce | Director | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Make Mine Memories | Director | - | 1945 |