Richard L. Bare

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Richard Leland Bare (born August 12, 1913 in Turlock , California - March 28, 2015 in Newport Beach , California) was an American screenwriter , director and television producer .

Life

education

Bare attended Modesto High School , where he made a short western , and later studied film and architecture at the University of Southern California . His 1932 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Oval Portrait is considered the university's first student film and won the Warner Bros. $ 400 Paul Muni Award.

Career

In the early 1940s, Bare made the short film So You Want to Give Up Smoking, starring George O'Hanlon in the lead role of the clumsy Joe McDoakes , which was bought by Warner Bros. and released in theaters in 1942. Due to the great success, Warner commissioned him with further productions of the series as a one-reeler comedy series. Another film was released before both Bare and O'Hanlon had to interrupt their careers for military service in World War II . After the war ended, Bare signed a ten-year contract with Warner for further episodes of the series. In 1947, So You Want to Be in Pictures , 1948 So You Want to Be on the Radio , and 1950 So You Think You're Not Guilty, three other short films in the series, as well as a short-film western called The Grass Is Always Greener , all of which received an Oscar nomination .

He later directed episodes of the western series Maverick , credited with discovering actor James Garner . In the series Twilight Zone he was responsible for the episode "To Serve Man" (1962), which is considered one of the most famous episodes. From 1965 to 1971 Bare directed 166 episodes of the Green Acres series . He took over the series from Ralph Levy , who had tried in the first episodes to give the series an artistic claim. Bare, however, believed that art was out of place on television.

He also worked as a writer or director in individual episodes for the series Route 66 , Petticoat Junction (a spin-off from Green Acres ), Nanny and the Professor , and dozens of other television series.

He published his experience in Hollywood in 1971 in the book "The Film Director: A Practical Guide to Motion Picture and Television Techniques".

Private life

Bare was married five times. The marriages with Virginia Carpenter (1941-1946) and the actresses Phyllis Coates (1948-1949), Julie Van Zandt (1951-1957, two children) and Jeanne Evans (1957-1965) were divorced. He was married to his last wife Gloria (nee Beutel) from 1968 until her death in 2012. In 2015, Bare died at his California home at the age of 101.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Richard L. Bare, Prolific TV Director for Decades, Dies at 101 . New York Times, April 12, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c Richard L. Bare, 'Green Acres' Director, Dies at 101 . Variety, April 10, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Bare, Richard L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bare, Richard Leland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, director, and television producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Turlock , California
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2015
Place of death Newport Beach , California