- Richard Quine
Infobox Actor
name = Richard Quine
birthdate = birth date|1920|11|12
location =Detroit, Michigan
deathdate = death date and age|1989|6|10|1920|11|12
deathplace =Los Angeles, California Richard Quine (
November 12 ,1920 –June 10 ,1989 ) was an American stage, film, and radioactor andfilm director .Quine was born in
Detroit, Michigan . He began his acting career at age eleven on Broadway, and appeared in his first filmJohn Ford 's "The World Moves On " (1934). During the war he served in theUnited States Coast Guard , marrying the actressSusan Peters in November 1943. After WW II, he tried directing, first as co-producer and co-director on "Leather Gloves " (1948), withWilliam Asher , before his first solo effort on the musical "The Sunny Side of the Street " (1951). His most successful films came in the late 1950s, including "Operation Mad Ball " (1957), "Bell, Book and Candle " (1958), "Strangers When We Meet" (1960) and "The World of Suzie Wong " (1960).He also produced such films as the comedy "
Paris, When It Sizzles " (1964) withAudrey Hepburn andWilliam Holden , "How to Murder Your Wife " (1965), "Synanon " (1966), and "Hotel" (1967).By the late 1960s, his output fell, and in the 1970s, he made only a few disappointing films. Turning to television, he directed three episodes of "Columbo" with
Peter Falk , including "Dagger Of The Mind", an episode set in Britain which most UK fans of that series regard as an embarrassment. He also worked on, another, much less successful "NBC Mystery Movie " series, "McCoy" starringTony Curtis .His final work was on "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1979) with
Peter Sellers , although he was briefly part of the crew for another Sellers film, "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu " (1980), for which he received no credit.After an extended period of depression and poor health, he committed
suicide by shooting himself inLos Angeles, California .External links
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