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Richard Fleischer
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Director Born: December 8, 1916 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY Death: March 25, 2006 in Woodland Hills, CA Biography:The son of famed animator "Max Fleischer" (Popeye, "Betty Boop" et. al.), "Richard O. Fleischer" was a psychology student at Brown University when he dropped out in favor of the Yale Drama Department. At age 21, Fleischer organized a campus theatrical troupe called the Arena Players. In 1942, he went to work for RKO-Pathe in New York, editing the company's weekly newsreels before producing and directing his own short-subject projects, including the March of Time-like "This is America" and a series of gagged-up silent-film vignettes titled Flicker Flashbacks. In 1946, he headed to Hollywood, there to direct feature films for Pathe's parent studio, RKO Radio; his last short-subject effort was the Oscar-winning "Design for Death" (1948). At first limited to "B" pictures, Fleischer gained a loyal critical following with such topnotch films as "Follow Me Quietly" (1949) and "The Narrow Margin" (1952).... Full Biography
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