This came up on another list. I will just excerpt a small
part of it.
Monte Herridge
Richard Fleischer, Director of Popular Films, Is Dead at
89
---------- By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON Published: March
27, 2006
Richard Fleischer, a film director who never became a
household name despite working with some of Hollywood's
biggest stars on hits like
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and
"Fantastic Voyage," died early Saturday at the Motion Picture
and Television Country House and Hospital in Los Angeles. He
was 89.
<snip>
While traveling with a theater troupe after Yale, Mr.
Fleischer was spotted by an RKO talent scout and invited to
New York to write scripts for newsreels. After a few months
in the Army, he moved to Hollywood and began directing
noirish B-movies like "Trapped," "Follow Me Quietly" and the
critically well received "Narrow Margin," a cat-and-mouse
thriller that takes places almost entirely on a train.
Throughout his career, he was attracted to true
crime, directing the
"The Boston Strangler," "10 Rillington Place" and
"Compulsion," about the Leopold and Loeb case.
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