Richard Rush (director)
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Richard Rush (April 15, 1929 – April 8, 2021) was an American film director, scriptwriter, and producer. He is known for directing The Stunt Man, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. His film Color of Night won a Golden Raspberry Award as the worst film of 1994, but Maxim magazine also singled the film out as having the best sex scene in film history. Rush, whose directing career began in 1960, also directed Freebie and the Bean, a police buddy comedy/drama starring Alan Arkin and James Caan. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1990 film Air America.
Filmography (as director and writer)
| Year | Film | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Too Soon to Love | Writer and Director |
| 1963 | Of Love and Desire | Writer and Director |
| 1967 | Thunder Alley | |
| The Cups of San Sebastian | ||
| Hells Angels on Wheels | ||
| 1968 | Psych-Out | |
| The Savage Seven | ||
| A Man Called Dagger | ||
| 1970 | Getting Straight | |
| 1974 | Freebie and the Bean | |
| 1980 | The Stunt Man | Writer and Director |
| 1990 | Air America | Writer only |
| 1994 | Color of Night | |
| 2000 | The Sinister Saga of Making "The Stunt Man" | Writer and Director |
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