---
name: "Richard Arlook"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/richard-arlook"
fi1m_id: "richard-arlook"
imdb_id: "nm0035207"
tmdb_id: 1371374
wikidata_id: "Q7323774"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-30T20:34:49.365137+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."
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# Richard Arlook

## Identity

Richard Arlook

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/richard-arlook
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** richard-arlook
- **IMDb ID:** nm0035207
- **TMDB ID:** 1371374
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7323774
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Arlook, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7323774, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035207/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1371374

Producer. Born in New York.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Arlook, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7323774, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035207/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1371374

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*It Had to Be You*](https://film.one/film/it-had-to-be-you.md) (70)

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

## Biography

Richard Arlook is an American talent manager and film producer. He was born in New York City and graduated from Emerson College. After moving to Los Angeles, he began his career in the industry working on game shows and at production companies before founding High Bar Pictures in 1986.

Arlook joined the Gersh Agency as a literary agent in 1990, becoming a senior partner and head of the Motion Picture Literary department. In 2008 he founded The Arlook Group, a talent management and production company. His producing credits include *After Midnight* (1989), *Waiting for Forever* (2010), *I Smile Back* (2015), *It Had to Be You* (2015) and *Space Oddity* (2022). He is a producer on the forthcoming *Band of Brothers: Legacy* (2026).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *It Had to Be You* (2016), Fi1m 70, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/it-had-to-be-you.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Band of Brothers: Legacy* (2026), Producer
- *Parrot Kindergarten* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Space Oddity* (2023), Producer
- *It Had to Be You* (2016), Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/it-had-to-be-you.md)
- *The Journey Is the Destination* (2016), Producer
- *I Smile Back* (2015), Producer
- *Goats* (2012), Executive Producer
- *Waiting for Forever* (2010), Executive Producer
- *Lucky Ducks* (2009), Executive Producer
- *20 Dates* (1998), as The Agent
- *After Midnight* (1989), Producer
- *Fog City*, Executive Producer

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