Richard Quine
Directing

Richard Quine

Born 12 November 1920 · Detroit, Michigan, USA · Died 10 June 1989

Richard Quine (November 12, 1920 – June 10, 1989) was an American stage, film, and radio actor and film director. Quine was born in Detroit. He made his Broadway debut in the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical Very Warm for May in 1939 and appeared in My Sister Eileen the following year. His screen acting credits include The World Moves On (1934), Jane Eyre (1934), Babes on Broadway (1941), My Sister Eileen (1942), and Words and Music (1948), among others. At MGM he became friends with Mickey Rooney and later directed several of Rooney's films. During World War II, Quine served in the United States Coast Guard, He married actress Susan Peters in November 1943. After the war, 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 directing credits include Pushover (1954), My Sister Eileen (1955), Operation Mad Ball (1957), Bell, Book and Candle (1958), Strangers When We Meet (1960), and The World of Suzie Wong (1960).

Known for

Columbo
Bell, Book and Candle
Paris When It Sizzles
How to Murder Your Wife
Sex and the Single Girl
Pushover
It Happened to Jane
The Notorious Landlady
The World of Suzie Wong
Strangers When We Meet
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Twiggy
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Specialists
W
Catch-22
The Moonshine War
A Talent for Loving
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
Hotel
How to Murder Your Wife
Synanon
Paris When It Sizzles
Sex and the Single Girl
The Notorious Landlady
The World of Suzie Wong
Strangers When We Meet
It Happened to Jane
Bell, Book and Candle
Operation Mad Ball
The Solid Gold Cadillac
He Laughed Last
Full of Life
My Sister Eileen
Bring Your Smile Along
Pushover
Drive a Crooked Road
So This Is Paris
All Ashore
Siren of Bagdad
Cruisin' Down the River
Sound Off
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
The Awful Sleuth
Sunny Side of the Street
Purple Heart Diary
No Sad Songs for Me
The Flying Missile
Rookie Fireman
The Clay Pigeon
Words and Music
Command Decision
Leather Gloves
The Cockeyed Miracle
We've Never Been Licked
My Sister Eileen
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
Tish
Stand by for Action
Babes on Broadway
Life Returns
Dinky
A Dog of Flanders
Little Men
Jane Eyre
Counsellor at Law
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