Michael Ritchie (film director)

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This article is about the film director. For the artistic director of Center Theatre Group, see Michael Ritchie (artistic director).

Michael Brunswick Ritchie (November 28, 1938 - April 16, 2001) was an American film director.

Ritchie was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the son of Patricia (née Graney) and Benbow Ferguson Ritchie, who was a college professor.^[1] He attended Berkeley High School in Berkeley California before becoming interested in film graduating from Harvard University in 1960.

In 1994, Ritchie purchased the hacienda-style house at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in the Brentwood district of LA where Marilyn Monroe died in 1962. He bought it for $995,000. He was the brother of Elsie Ritchie.

[edit] Filmography

• Downhill Racer (1969)
• The Candidate (1972)
• Prime Cut (1972)
• Smile (1975)
• The Bad News Bears (1976)
• Semi-Tough (1977)
• An Almost Perfect Affair (1979)
• The Island (1980)
• Divine Madness! (1980)
• Student Bodies (1981)
• The Survivors (1983)
• Fletch (1985)
• Wildcats (1986)
• The Golden Child (1986)
• The Couch Trip (1988)
• Fletch Lives (1989)
• Diggstown (1992)
• The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993) (TV movie)
• Cops and Robbersons (1994)
• The Scout (1994)
• Comfort, Texas (1997) (TV movie)
• A Simple Wish (1997)
• The Fantasticks (2000)

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[edit] External links

• Michael Ritchie (film director) at the Internet Movie Database