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Richard Fleischer: Quick Facts

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Born December 8, 1916 • New York City • New York
Died March 25, 2006 (aged 89) • Los Angeles • California
Notable Works “10 Rillington Place” • “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” • “Armored Car Robbery” • “Barabbas” • “Che!” • “Compulsion” • “Conan the Destroyer” • “Doctor Dolittle” • “Fantastic Voyage” • “Mandingo” • “Mr. Majestyk” • “See No Evil” • “Soylent Green” • “The Boston Strangler” • “The Clay Pigeon” • “The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing” • “The Jazz Singer” • “The Narrow Margin” • “Tora, Tora, Tora!” • “Violent Saturday”
Notable Family Members father Max Fleischer

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Scene from Fantastic Voyage (1966) showing a miniaturized submarine and crew floating inside a stylized, red-lit depiction of the human body.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Kirk Douglas as Einar holds Janet Leigh as Morgana in an intense scene from the film The Vikings, with a stone wall and rugged landscape in the background.
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan stands shirtless, holding a large sword upright, wearing a headband and fur-trimmed costume in Conan the Destroyer.
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Jesse Lasky
American producer
Master of suspense
Alfred Hitchcock
English-born American director
Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Steven Spielberg
American film director and producer
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
American actor, director, and writer
Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.
Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
American director, writer, and actor
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Frank Capra
American film director
William Wyler
William Wyler
German-born American director
Howard Hawks stands at right, speaking with actors John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson in cowboy costumes on the set of the western film Rio Bravo.
Howard Hawks
American director
Billy Wilder poses in a suit and hat, leaning against a streetlamp with a sign reading Sunset Blvd. in a promotional photo for the film Sunset Boulevard.
Billy Wilder
Austrian-born American director and producer
Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background.
Francis Ford Coppola
American director and screenwriter
American director Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick
American director
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Mervyn LeRoy
American director and producer
George Stevens
George Stevens
American director
Otto Preminger
Otto Preminger
American filmmaker
Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him.
Elia Kazan
American director and author
D.W. Griffith
D.W. Griffith
American director
Arthur Penn looks through a Panavision film camera while directing The Missouri Breaks, wearing a hat and sunglasses on his head.
Arthur Penn
American director
Cecil B. DeMille, wearing a dark suit and patterned tie, smiles while looking to the side in this black-and-white portrait.
Cecil B. DeMille
American film director
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
American filmmaker