Bill Richmond (director)

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William "Corky" Richmond (born 1958, Long Island, New York) is a television producer, director and editor who has worked for MTV and VH1. Among other projects, he has produced the TV short A Day in the Life of Jenny McCarthy, and was co-director of the 1991 documentary Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin and the mini-series Sex in the 90s.

He was, for a short while, a director on the first season of the fledgling series The Real World: New York in 1992. His association with that series came to a quick end when he moved on-screen and became romantically involved with one of the cast, Becky Blasband, when the show vacationed in Jamaica.^[1] This incident received widespread media coverage and was cause for the establishment of a production rule for The Real World prohibiting crew members from associating socially with the cast.^[2]

Before starting his career in video production, Richmond spent several years training to be a pilot at the Florida Institute of Technology, but had to leave that profession due to impaired depth perception. While at F.I.T., Richmond got his first taste of the entertainment industry by performing with the F.I.T. College Players as "Writer" in Neil Simon's The Good Doctor.