Richard Fleischer

Richard Fleischer is one of those directors I find genuinely fascinating precisely because he never locked himself into a single lane. The son of animation legend Max Fleischer, he could have coasted on the family name, but instead he carved out his own identity across an astonishing range of genres — from the tight, claustrophobic noir of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to the brutal true-crime portrait of 10 Rillington Place to the bonkers sci-fi of Soylent Green. He won an Academy Award for documentary work back in 1948, which tells you he had a sharp eye for reality alongside the spectacle. Brown University educated, clearly a thinker, yet he never let pretension get in the way of pure entertainment. Disney Legends status in 2003 was a fitting late-career honor. He passed in 2006 at 89, and honestly, a four-decade Hollywood run that eclectic deserves way more appreciation than it gets.

Name (English)

Richard Fleischer

Name (Japanese)

リチャード・フライシャー

Reading

りちゃーど・ふらいしゃー

Born

December 8, 1916 – March 25, 2006

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dragon

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

film director / screenwriter / director

University

Brown University

Awards & achievements

• 1948 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
• 2003 Disney Legends

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC

Tags

• New York
• film director
• screenwriter
• director

Last updated

2026-06-02

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