38 Facts About Richard Quine

Richard Quine was an American director, actor, and singer.

When his acting career began to wane after World War II, Quine began working as a film director.

Richard Quine's family moved to Los Angeles when he was six years old.

Richard Quine then appeared in vaudeville before moving on to stage roles.

Richard Quine made his film debut in the drama Cavalcade.

Richard Quine could be seen in The World Changes, Counsellor-at-Law, Jane Eyre, Dames, Wednesday's Child with Frankie Thomas, Little Men, Life Returns, A Dog of Flanders with Thomas, and Dinky with Jackie Cooper.

Richard Quine left Los Angeles for New York City to return to stage acting.

Richard Quine appeared in The Cockeyed Miracle, Words and Music and Command Decision.

Richard Quine was still under contract to MGM when the film was made.

The film was successful and Richard Quine was hired to a long-term contract at Columbia.

Richard Quine was third billed in The Clay Pigeon, a low budget noir directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Carl Foreman at RKO.

Richard Quine had support roles in No Sad Songs for Me and Rookie Fireman, both at Columbia.

Richard Quine followed it with Purple Heart Diary with Frances Langford.

Richard Quine directed the film noir Pushover that launched Kim Novak as a star.

Richard Quine helped Edwards write the film that became Edwards' first feature as director, Bring Your Smile Along with Laine.

Edwards and Richard Quine wrote the script for a musical remake of My Sister Eileen, which Richard Quine directed, and He Laughed Last, which Edwards directed.

Richard Quine's films included The Solid Gold Cadillac and Full of Life with Judy Holliday; Operation Mad Ball with Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs, with Blake Edwards helping write the script; Bell, Book and Candle with James Stewart, Novak, Kovacs and Lemmon.

Richard Quine made It Happened to Jane with Doris Day and Lemmon, produced by Day's film production company, Arwin Productions.

Richard Quine set up his own film production company, Richard Quine Productions, and secured a financing and distribution deal through Columbia Pictures.

Back at Columbia Richard Quine did the narration for The Wackiest Ship in the Army with Lemmon.

Richard Quine announced he would do several projects for his own company: The Image Makers with Glenn Ford, Roar Like a Dove with Doris Day, and The Fannie Brice Story for Ray Stark.

Richard Quine was going to do Man Hunt in Kenya with William Holden.

Richard Quine produced and directed Lemmon, Fred Astaire and Novak in The Notorious Landlady, co written by Edwards.

Richard Quine was going to make A Bolt Out of the Blue and Fair Game with Holden and direct Sherlock Holmes on Broadway.

Richard Quine directed and produced Paris When It Sizzles with Holden and Audrey Hepburn, done for his own company via Paramount.

Richard Quine produced and directed Synanon for Columbia, a little seen film about addicts.

Richard Quine returned to TV producing and directing episodes of the short-lived The Jean Arthur Show.

Richard Quine was going to film Across the River and into the Trees but it was never made.

Richard Quine was meant to film The Owl and the Pussycat but Herbert Ross ended up doing it, with Barbra Streisand and George Segal.

Richard Quine wrote the lyrics "Be Prepared," a song included in the film It Happened to Jane, which he produced and directed.

In 1962, Richard Quine wrote two songs, "Going Steady With a Dream" and "Strangers When We Meet," the latter the theme to the 1960 film of the same name, which Richard Quine directed, and for the film Don't Knock the Twist.

Richard Quine returned to acting with a role in the movie Original: Do Not Project.

Richard Quine directed three episodes of Peter Falk's Columbo, including "Dagger of the Mind," an episode set in Britain.

Richard Quine's final completed film as a director was the film The Prisoner of Zenda starring Peter Sellers.

Richard Quine was hired to direct another Sellers film, The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu.

In September 1951, Quine married Barbara Bushman, the granddaughter of actor Francis X Bushman.

Richard Quine was taken to UCLA Medical Center, where he died at the age of 68.

Richard Quine's remains are interred in the Room of Prayer columbarium at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles.