A Tribute to Richard Rush: The Maverick Who Made 'The Stunt Man' Didn't Direct Many Films, but Was Always Ahead of the Curve
Skip to main content Currently Reading A Tribute to Richard Rush: The Maverick Who Made 'The Stunt Man' Didn't 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 every one of them. Maybe to a fault: As he noted in “The Sinister Saga of Making ‘The Stunt Ma...