---
name: "Mike Rich"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mike-rich"
fi1m_id: "mike-rich"
imdb_id: "nm0723692"
tmdb_id: 10683
wikidata_id: "Q555726"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T20:16:23.101466+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."
---

# Mike Rich

## Identity

Mike Rich

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mike-rich
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mike-rich
- **IMDb ID:** nm0723692
- **TMDB ID:** 10683
- **Wikidata ID:** Q555726
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rich, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555726, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0723692/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10683

Writer. Born 1 January 1959 in Enterprise, Oregon, United States of America.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1959, Enterprise, Oregon, United States of America
- **Active:** 2000–2017
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rich, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555726, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0723692/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10683

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Cars 3*](https://film.one/film/cars-3.md) (58)

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

## Biography

Mike Rich is an American screenwriter. Born in 1959 in Enterprise, Oregon, he attended Oregon State University and began his career in radio as a news reporter and director at KINK-FM in Portland.

Rich won the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting in 1998 for his first screenplay, *Finding Forrester* (2000), directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Connery. He is known for writing sports-themed films including *The Rookie* (2002), *Radio* (2003) and *Secretariat* (2010), as well as the screenplay for *Cars 3* (2017).

*Sources: imdb.com, latimes.com, gointothestory.blcklst.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cars 3* (2017), Fi1m 58, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/cars-3.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Cars 3* (2017), Screenplay — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/cars-3.md)
- *Secretariat* (2010), Screenplay
- *My Turtle's Name Is Dudley* (2007), as Helping Hand
- *The Nativity Story* (2006), Executive Producer, Writer
- *Radio* (2003), Writer
- *The Rookie* (2002), Writer
- *Finding Forrester* (2000), Writer

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/mike-rich