FILM DIRECTOR

Richard Rush

1929 - 2021

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Richard Rush (April 15, 1929 – April 8, 2021) was an American film director, scriptwriter, and producer. He is known for directing The Stunt Man, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. His film Color of Night won a Golden Raspberry Award as the worst film of 1994, but Maxim magazine also singled the film out as having the best sex scene in film history. Rush, whose directing career began in 1960, also directed Freebie and the Bean, a police buddy comedy/drama starring Alan Arkin and James Caan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Rush is the 1,380th most popular film director (down from 1,169th in 2019), the 10,007th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,633rd in 2019) and the 372nd most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Richard Rush ranks 1,380 out of 2,041. Before him are Marco Tullio Giordana, Benoît Lamy, Egon Günther, Felix Sobolev, Justin Lin, and Laura Poitras. After him are Guillermo Navarro, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Zoltan Korda, Joe Roth, Juan José Campanella, and Janusz Majewski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Richard Rush ranks 489. Before him are Ahmed Kathrada, Carlos Torres, Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Bruno Junk, Hal Blaine, and Henry Proctor. After him are Józef Zapędzki, Jerzy Antczak, Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Benny Andersen, Ralph McQuarrie, and Desmond Hoyte. Among people deceased in 2021, Richard Rush ranks 552. Before him are Aleksandr Klepikov, Hubert Auriol, Mehdi Cerbah, Vyacheslav Vedenin, Raymond T. Odierno, and Norm Macdonald. After him are Raúl Rivero, Enrique Chazarreta, Willard Scott, Gregory Sierra, Julie Strain, and Al Unser.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Rush ranks 10,009 out of 20,380. Before him are David S. Goyer (1965), Laura Poitras (1964), Brian Grazer (1951), Conrad Aiken (1889), Harry Warren (1893), and Ben Feldman (1980). After him are Charlotte Mineau (1886), Carol Yager (1960), Rick Ross (1976), Steven R. Nagel (1946), Joe Lovano (1952), and Arnold Denker (1914).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Richard Rush ranks 372. Before him are Charles Reisner (1887), Dudley Nichols (1895), Adam McKay (1968), Clifford Odets (1906), Owen Roizman (1936), and Laura Poitras (1964). After him are Joe Roth (1948), Bennett Miller (1966), Alexander Hall (1894), Joseph Ruben (1950), Frank Tashlin (1913), and Jon Avnet (1949).

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