Richard Quine

Director, Actor, Productor, Escritor

12 de noviembre de 1920 — 10 de junio de 1989 (68 años)
Richard Quine (November 12, 1920 – June 10, 1989) was an American stage, film, and radio actor and film director.

Quine was born in Detroit. He made his Broadway debut in the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical Very Warm for May in 1939 and appeared in My Sister Eileen the following year. His screen acting credits include The World Moves On (1934), Jane Eyre (1934), Babes on Broadway (1941), My Sister Eileen (1942), and Words and Music (1948), among others. At MGM he became friends with Mickey Rooney and later directed several of Rooney's films.

During World War II, Quine served in the United States Coast Guard, He married actress Susan Peters in November 1943. After the war, he tried directing, first as co-producer and co-director on Leather Gloves (1948), with William Asher, before his first solo effort on the musical The Sunny Side of the Street (1951). His directing credits include Pushover (1954), My Sister Eileen (1955), 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) with Audrey Hepburn and William Holden, How to Murder Your Wife (1965) with Jack Lemmon, Synanon (1966), and Hotel (1967).

By the late 1960s, his output fell, and in the 1970s, Quine made only a few disappointing films. Turning to television, he had in the 1954-1955 season created with Blake Edwards the first Mickey Rooney series, The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan, which aired on NBC. Quine later directed three episodes of Peter Falk's Columbo, including Dagger Of The Mind, an episode set in Britain which some UK fans of that series regard as an embarrassment. He also worked on, another, much less successful NBC Mystery Movie series, McCoy starring Tony 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.

His first wife, whom he married on 11 July 1943, was actress Susan Peters, who was crippled from the waist down on a hunting trip with Quine in 1945 when her 22-caliber rifle accidentally discharged. The bullet lodged in her spine. On 17 April 1946, the couple adopted an infant, whom they named Timothy Richard Quine. They divorced in 1948, and she died of the effects of anorexia nervosa in 1952, at age 31.

Quine was later engaged to Kim Novak, but the two did not marry. He also married actresses Barbara Bushman (with whom he had two daughters, Katherine and Victoria), Fran Jeffries, and Diana Balfour.

After an extended period of depression and poor health, Quine committed suicide by shooting himself in Los Angeles on June 10, 1989. A rifle injury eerily reminiscent of his first wife's hunting accident.

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Películas y series en Plex

  • Stand by for Action
    Stand by for Action1942
  • Life Returns
    Life Returns1935
  • Twiggy
    Twiggy2025

Conocido por

  • Me enamoré de una bruja
    Me enamoré de una bruja1958
  • Cómo matar a la propia esposa
    Cómo matar a la propia esposa1965
  • Colombo
    Colombo10 seasons
  • La casa número 322
    La casa número 3221954
  • La indómita y el millonario
    La indómita y el millonario1959
  • La misteriosa dama de negro
    La misteriosa dama de negro1962
  • El mundo de Suzie Wong
    El mundo de Suzie Wong1960
  • Un extraño en mi vida
    Un extraño en mi vida1960
  • Mi hermana Elena
    Mi hermana Elena1955
  • La senda equivocada
    La senda equivocada1954
  • El estrafalario prisionero de Zenda
    El estrafalario prisionero de Zenda1979
  • Operación Gran Baile
    Operación Gran Baile1957
  • Un cadillac de oro macizo
    Un cadillac de oro macizo1956
  • Intriga en el Gran Hotel
    Intriga en el Gran Hotel1967
  • El infierno del Whisky
    El infierno del Whisky1970
  • Acusado a traición
    Acusado a traición1949
  • ¡Oh papá, pobre papá, mama te ha metido en el armario, y a mí me da tanta pena!
    ¡Oh papá, pobre papá, mama te ha metido en el armario, y a mí me da tanta pena!1967
  • Chicos de Broadway
    Chicos de Broadway1941
  • Marino al agua
    Marino al agua1953
  • Sublime decisión
    Sublime decisión1948

Filmography

2024
Twiggy · as (archival Footage)En Plex
1960
The Wackiest Ship in the Army · as Narrator (uncredited)
1952
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder · as Opening Narrator
1950
The Flying Missile · as Amn. Hank Weber
1950
He's a Cockeyed Wonder · as Actor In Drive-In Movie
1950
No Sad Songs for Me · as Brownie
1949
The Clay Pigeon · as Ted Niles
1948
Words and Music · as Ben Feiner Jr.
1948
Command Decision · as Maj. George Rockton
1946
The Cockeyed Miracle · as Howard Bankson
1943
We've Never Been Licked · as Brad Craig
1942
Stand by for Action · as Ensign LindsayEn Plex
1942
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant · as Dr. Dennis Lindsey
1942
For Me and My Gal · as Danny Hayden (uncredited)
1942
My Sister Eileen · as Frank Lippincott
1942
Tish · as Theodore 'ted' Bowser
1941
Babes on Broadway · as Morton Hammond
1939
King of the Underworld · as Medical Student (uncredited)
1935
Dinky · as Jackie Shaw
1935
A Dog of Flanders · as Pieter Vanderkloot
1934
Life Returns · as MickeyEn Plex
1934
Little Men · as Ned
1934
Wednesday's Child · as Young Boy (uncredited)
1934
Dames · as Cast
1934
Jane Eyre · as John Reed
1933
Counsellor at Law · as Richard Dwight Jr.
1933
The World Changes · as Young Richard (uncredited)
1933
Cavalcade · as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

1956
He Laughed Last · as Story
1955
1954
The Mickey Rooney Show · as Based On Characters Created By