Richard Quine

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, 1920June 10, 1989) was an American stage, film, and radio actor and film director.

Quine was born in Detroit, Michigan. He began his acting career at age eleven on Broadway, and appeared in his first film John Ford's "The World Moves On" (1934). During the war he served in the United States Coast Guard, marrying the actress Susan Peters in November 1943. After WW II, 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 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) with Audrey Hepburn and William 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" 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.

After an extended period of depression and poor health, he committed suicide by shooting himself in Los Angeles, California.

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