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Michael Ritchie

Director and producer Michael Brunswick Ritchie became known in his youth as Hollywood's boy wonder of low-budget spectaculars and went on to direct such hits as Downhill Racer, Chevy Chase's Fletch comedies, The Candidate, The Bad News Bears, The Golden Child, Diggstown and Semi-Tough.


Aliases
  • Allen Smithee
English
  • Born In Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
  • Born November 28, 1938
  • Died April 16, 2001
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Director

Episode The Felony Squad
Miss Reilly's Revenge
1966
Movie Student Bodies 1981
Movie The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom 1993
Movie Smile 1975
Episode The Big Valley
Teacher of Outlaws
1966
Movie An Almost Perfect Affair 1979
Movie The Bad News Bears 1976
Movie Fletch Lives 1989
Episode The Big Valley
Under a Dark Star
1966
Movie The Golden Child 1986
Episode The Big Valley
Barbary Red
1966
Movie The Survivors 1983
Movie The Fantasticks 1995
Movie The Island 1980
Movie Cops & Robbersons 1994
Movie A Simple Wish 1997
Movie Semi-Tough 1977
Movie Divine Madness 1980
Movie The Scout 1994
Episode The Felony Squad
The Streets Are Paved With Gold
1966
Episode Run for Your Life
I Am the Late Diana Hays
1966
Movie Wildcats 1986
Episode Run for Your Life
The Man Who Had No Enemies
1966
Episode Beggars and Choosers
The Mountainmen (1)
1999
Episode Run for Your Life
Hang Down Your Head and Laugh
1966
Movie Diggstown 1992
Episode Run for Your Life
Better World Next Time
1967
Episode Beggars and Choosers
The Mountainmen (2)
1999
Episode The Felony Squad
A Walk To Oblivion
1966
Episode Run for Your Life
Who's Che Guevara?
1967
Movie The Candidate 1972
Episode Run for Your Life
The Company of Scoundrels
1967
Movie Prime Cut 1972
Movie Downhill Racer 1969
Episode The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Nowhere Affair
1966
Movie The Couch Trip 1988
Movie The Sound of Anger 1968
Movie Fletch 1985

Writer

Movie Cool Runnings 1993
Movie Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie 2002

Producer

Movie Student Bodies 1981
Movie Kill Your Dinner 2016
Movie The Bad News Bears Go to Japan 1978