Legendary American filmmaker Richard Donner has passed away at the age of 91, his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner, has announced today. Born in the Bronx in 1930, Donner began his career directing commercials before switching to television in the late 1950s, working on TV dramas such as Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Fugitive, Tales from the Crypt and The Twilight Zone (including the classic William Shatner-led episode ‘Nightmare at 20,000 Feet). However, it was on the big screen where Donner would enjoy monumental success, becoming responsible for some of the most iconic movies of the 1970s and 1980s. He directed his first feature