Richard Quine
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Richard Quine (November 12, 1920 – June 10, 1989) was an American stage, film, and radio actor and film director.
He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He began his acting career aged eleven on Broadway, and appeared in his first film in 1934 - John Ford's The World Moves On. During the war he served in the United States Coast Guard, marrying the actress Susan Peters in November of 1943. After WW II 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 most successful films came in the late 1950s, including Operation Madball (1957), Bell, Book and Candle (1958), Strangers When We Meet (1960) and The World of Suzie Wong (1960).
He also produced such films as the William Holden / Audrey Hepburn comedy Paris When it Sizzles (1964).
His output fell in the 1960s and in the 1970s he made only three disappointing films. His final work was on Peter Sellers' The Prisoner of Zenda (1979), although he was briefly part of the crew for another Sellers film - The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980).
After an extended period of depression and poor health he committed suicide by shooting himself in his Los Angeles home. He had divorced Peters in 1948 and married entertainer, singer, and noted beauty Fran Jeffries in 1965. His second marriage produced a daughter and lasted until his death.
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