---
name: "Dick Richards"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dick-richards"
fi1m_id: "dick-richards"
imdb_id: "nm0724059"
tmdb_id: 19333
wikidata_id: "Q1209782"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1936"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:36:00.301209+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dick Richards

## Identity

Dick Richards

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dick-richards
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dick-richards
- **IMDb ID:** nm0724059
- **TMDB ID:** 19333
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1209782
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Richards, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1209782, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724059/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19333

Producer. Born 1 January 1936 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1936, New York City, New York, USA
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Richards, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1209782, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724059/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19333

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Tootsie*](https://film.one/film/tootsie.md) (85)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Dick Richards is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. After working as a photographer, he directed commercials before making his feature debut with *The Culpepper Cattle Co.* (1972), which he also wrote.

He directed *Farewell, My Lovely* (1975), *March or Die* (1977), *Death Valley* (1982), *Man, Woman and Child* (1983) and *Heat* (1986). Richards produced *Tootsie* (1982) with Sydney Pollack; the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Comedy.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, dickrichards.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Tootsie* (1982), Fi1m 85, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/tootsie.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Amazing Grace: The History and Theology of Calvinism* (2004), Music
- *Heat* (1986), Director
- *Man, Woman and Child* (1983), Director
- *Tootsie* (1982), Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/tootsie.md)
- *Death Valley* (1982), Director
- *Alligator* (1980), as Gator Vendor 2
- *March or Die* (1977), Director, Story, Producer
- *Farewell, My Lovely* (1975), Director
- *Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins* (1975), Director
- *The Culpepper Cattle Co.* (1972), Director, Story
- *Her Kind of Man* (1946), Editor
- *Tempted by Necessity* (1912), as George W. Britt

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1983: Best Picture (nominated), for *Tootsie*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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