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W.D. Richter
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: December 7, 1945 in New Britain, CT Biography:Best known as the director of the 1984 cult film "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension", "W.D. Richter" had already established a reputation as a successful Hollywood screenwriter. The Connecticut-born Richter came to California in the 1970s with his wife, Susan, and began writing for the movies.
Richter's first screenplay was for "Slither" (1973), starring "James Caan". The marketability of that offbeat story set the stage for a number of other scripts with a similar tone, including "Peeper" (1975), "Nickelodeon" (1976), a remake of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" in 1978, "Dracula" in 1979, and "Brubaker" (1980), for which Richter garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. The 1981 film "All Night Long", starring "Barbra Streisand" and "Gene Hackman", marked the end of a busy chapter of his life as screenwriter, as Richter embarked on a new phase as a... Full Biography
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