Ted Richmond

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Ted Richmond (born June 10, 1910 in New Bedford , Massachusetts , † December 23, 2013 in Paris , France ) was an American film producer .

Live and act

Richmond began his cinema career as an usher in a motion picture theater. In the 1930s he was still getting jobs from tiny production companies in Hollywood as a story supplier and assistant director (e.g. for Phantom Ranger (1938), Two Gun Justice (1938), Trigger Pals (1939), Six-Gun Rhythm (1939) and 1940 as production manager at The Last Alarm ). In the second half of 1940, a small production company let him make his first film, Caught in the Act, under the name TH Richmond . Richmond then produced low-cost films for Monogram Studios and Universal before moving to Columbia Pictures in 1944. At the beginning of 1950, Universal Studios became his long-term employer. Richmond's production oeuvre in his early creative period included cheaply produced crime novels as well as comedies and adventure stories, the one or other horror story (such as Behind the Walls of Horror with Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff ) as well as an abundance of (especially in the 1950s) Standard Western.

After many years as a B-film producer, Ted Richmond gradually rose to the A-League in the late 1950s. His most ambitious production was the monumental film Salomon and the Queen of Sheba , which he made for Edward Small Productions at the end of 1958. Ted Richmond then moved to MGM and produced smooth and pleasing mass entertainment such as the Bob Hope comedy Bachelor in Paradise or the Presley vehicle Whether blond - whether brown for the Major Company . He was mainly responsible for conventional film products with old stars such as Yul Brynner , Glenn Ford , Robert Mitchum and Charles Bronson . In later years, Richmond's collaboration with Robert Dorfmann's Paris Corona film resulted in his films being increasingly made outside of Hollywood. His and Dorfmann's greatest success was the monumental breakaway drama Papillon in 1973 . Ted Richmond ended his production activities with the second Steiner war film at the end of the decade. He retired to Paris with his wife Asuko and stayed there for the next 30 years until his death at the age of 103.

Filmography

  • 1940: Caught in the Act
  • 1941: South of Panama
  • 1941: Jungle Man
  • 1941: Blonde Comet
  • 1942: She's in the Army
  • 1944: Kansas City Kitty
  • 1944: Behind Closed Doors
  • 1945: Youth on Trial
  • 1945: Blonde from Brooklyn
  • 1945: Hit the Hay
  • 1946: Night Editor
  • 1946: Dangerous Business
  • 1946: Blackie and the Law
  • 1947: Blind Spot
  • 1947: King of the Wild Horses
  • 1947: The Lone Wolf in London
  • 1948: Above All Laws
  • 1948: Best Man Wins
  • 1948: Fury
  • 1949: The Big Deal
  • 1949: Holiday in Havana
  • 1950: Without scruples (Shakedown)
  • 1950: Horsemen Without Mercy (Kansas Raiders)
  • 1951: Pirates of Macau (Smuggler's Island)
  • 1951: Week-End with Father
  • 1951: Behind the Walls of Horror (The Strange Door)
  • 1952: Escape from Death (The Cimarron Kid)
  • 1952: Has anyone seen my bride? (Has Anybody Seen My Gal)
  • 1952: Rival in the saddle (Bronco Buster)
  • 1953: Strandgut (Forbidden)
  • 1953: Column South (Column South)
  • 1953: The Legionnaire of the Sahara (Desert Legion)
  • 1953: The World Is His (The Mississippi Gambler)
  • 1954: Rails Into Laramie
  • 1954: Rifles for Bengali (Bengal Brigade)
  • 1955: Count Three and Pray
  • 1956: When the Night Falls (Nightfall)
  • 1957: fear has a thousand names (abandon ship!)
  • 1959: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
  • 1961: Bachelor in Paradise (Bachelor in Paradise)
  • 1962: Escape from Zahrain (Escape From Zahrain)
  • 1962: Whether blond - whether brown (It Happened at the World's Fair)
  • 1964: Heroes Without Pants (Advance to the Rear)
  • 1966: Return of the Seven (Return of the Seven)
  • 1968: Pancho Villa rides (Villa Rides)
  • 1971: Rivals under the red sun (Soleil rouge)
  • 1973: Papillon
  • 1976: The Secret of the Iron Mask (The Fifth Musketeer) (WP: 1979)
  • 1978: Steiner - The Iron Cross II (Breakthrough)

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 2001, Quigley Publishing Company, Larchmont, New York 2001, p. 350

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to other sources, Richmond was born in Norfolk, Virginia .
personal data
SURNAME Richmond, Ted
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH New Bedford , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 2013
Place of death Paris , France