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Chuck Fries, Prolific TV and Film Producer, Dies at 92 Pat Saperstein, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Charles “Chuck” Fries, the longtime film and television producer who helped introduce the TV movie concept and shepherded films including “Cat People,” died on Thursday. He was 92. Over his six-decade-plus career, he participated in the production of more than 5,000 episodes of television, 140 television movies and mini-series, and more than 40 theatrical films. More from Variety Fri...

Richard Rush, who directed The Stunt Man, dies at 91 In “The Stunt Man,” Steve Railsback plays a fugitive who accidentally finds himself on a film set and ends up as a stunt man while striking up a romance with one of the stars (played by Barbara Hershey). by Neil Genzlinger (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Richard Rush, who made rebellious-youth films in the 1960s that featured emerging stars like Jack Nicholson but who had his biggest success in 1980 with “The Stunt Man,” a quirky, expectation-defyi...

Peter OToole in Richard Rushs The Stunt Man Credit: 20th Century Fox The passing of Richard Rush, the writer-director who died last week aged 91, strikes me as the epitaph to something – a certain era of risk-taking in American cinema. His career is one of Hollywood’s great might-have-beens. According to Variety, he gave away the rights to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and turned down Jaws. In the last 40 years, he was only responsible for one film, and that was his worst – the dilap...

Richard Rush He also helmed three films featuring a young Jack Nicholson as well as one of the first buddy-cop movies, Freebie and the Bean. Richard Rush, the writer, director and producer who earned two Oscar nominations for his work on the deliciously dark Peter OToole comedy The Stunt Man, has died. He was 91. Rush died Thursday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, his wife, Claude, told The Hollywood Reporter. He demonstrated an incredible "will to live" and survived 18 years wit...

The film-maker’s early underground work included Hells Angels on Wheels before he entered the mainstream with hits such as Freebie and the Bean

Skip to main content Currently Reading A Tribute to Richard Rush: The Maverick Who Made The Stunt Man Didnt Direct Many Films, but Was Always Ahead of the Curve Owen Gleiberman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Richard Rush, the director of “The Stunt Man,” died April 8 at the age of 91, and if you look up his credits he has only 14 of them (and one was an episode of “The Mod Squad”). In a career that spanned 35 years, he made just a dozen features. Yet to an unusual degree, he meant e...

Gregory Sierra The New York native also portrayed a Jewish vigilante on a sobering episode of All in the Family. Gregory Sierra, who endeared himself to 1970s sitcom fans as the genial Julio Fuentes on  Sanford and Son and the impassioned Sgt. Miguel "Chano" Amenguale on  Barney Miller, has died. He was 83. Sierra died Jan. 4 in Laguna Woods, California, after a battle with cancer, family spokesman Rick Voll told The Hollywood Reporter. A native of New Yorks Spanish Harlem, Sierra also made...