Biographies: Richard Quine - Director

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An American actor and director, born in Detroit, Michigan, on November 12, 1920. Richard Quine was a radio, theater, and film actor and director. His family to Los Angeles when he was 6, and he began working as a child on the radio as an actor, then appeared in the vaudeville theater, and sang on the radio as a young man, before moving to theater roles, then presented his first film with Fox, Cavalcade (1933), then The World Changes (1933), Jane Eyre (1934), Little Men (1934), and A Dog of Flanders (1935). He left for New York in 1939 to work on Broadway, then returned to films with MGM in 1941 and presented films such as Babes on Broadway (1941). He joined the army and served in the Coast Guard, and after the war, his film career waned. Quine signed on with Columbia Company as a director in 1948 and made his directorial debut in Leather Gloves (1948), and in 1956, he established his own production company, while continuing to work for Columbia, then Paramount, and Warner Bros., then moved to television production and directing, in addition to his work in cinema. His most notable films as director include My Sister Eileen (1955), Strangers When We Meet (1960), and Paris When It Sizzles (1964). In the late eighties, due to depression and poor health, he committed suicide in Los Angeles, California, on June 10, 1989.

• 30 August 2021
• Dalia Saad