Michael Ritchie

Michael Brunswick Ritchie (Noviembre 28, 1938 - Abril 16, 2001), lo que es en American film director. Ritchie was born en Waukesha, Wisconsin, the son of Patricia (née Graney) y Benbow Ferguson Ritchie. His family later moved to Berkeley, California, where his father was a profesor of experimental psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and his mother was the art and music bibliotecario for the city. He attended Berkeley High School antes de convertirse en persona interesada en la película, y lo que accepted at Harvard University following high school. Ritchie attracted attention in his senior year at Harvard en 1960 by directing the original production of the Arthur Kopit play, ¡Oh, Papá, Pobre Papá, Mamá's Hung You in the Closet and i'm Feelin' So Sad en Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work on Kopit's play led to a job offer from Robert Saudek, the producer of the Omnibus serie de televisión. Ritchie y bien dirigida episodes of Profiles in Courage and such serie de TV as The Man From U. N. C. L. E., Dr. Kildare and Traición escuadra prior to making his Hollywood característica de la película debut en 1969 with Downhill Racer. His sister, Elsie Ritchie, acted en two of his película (The Candidate and Smile). En 1994, Ritchie purchased the hacienda de estilo house at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, the Brentwood distrito de Los Ángeles, donde Marilyn Monroe, que murió en 1962. He bought it for $995,000. En 1994, Ritchie moved to Manhattan with his wife, Jimmie Como Ritchie, and daughters, Lillian (b. 1986) y Miriam (b. 1988). His additional children include a son, Steven (b. 1973); daughters Lauren (b. 1966) y Jessica (b. 1973), y dos hijastros, Nelly Bly and Billy Bly. Ritchie died at age 62 of complicaciones from cáncer de próstata, on 16 de Abril de 2001, en la ciudad de Nueva York.