---
name: "Richard Denault"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/richard-denault"
fi1m_id: "richard-denault"
imdb_id: "nm0218894"
tmdb_id: 1228522
wikidata_id: "Q118126492"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T12:06:35.313615+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."
---

# Richard Denault

## Identity

Richard Denault

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/richard-denault
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** richard-denault
- **IMDb ID:** nm0218894
- **TMDB ID:** 1228522
- **Wikidata ID:** Q118126492
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118126492, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0218894/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1228522

Producer and director.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Active:** 1990–2016
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 directing, 1 producing, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 74 (1), 2000s 68 (1), 2010s 77 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118126492, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0218894/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1228522

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*Beverly Hills, 90210*](https://film.one/tv/beverly-hills-90210.md) (74)

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

## Biography

Richard Denault is an American television director and assistant director. He began his career in the 1980s as a second assistant director, including on the film *The Last Starfighter* (1984).

He has directed episodes of several series, including four episodes of *Beverly Hills, 90210* (1997–1998), one episode each of *Melrose Place* (1998), *Pacific Palisades* (1997) and *Charmed* (1998), and two episodes of *Savannah* (1996–1997). Denault has also worked extensively as a first assistant director on series such as *Stranger Things* (2016–2022), *Glee* (2009) and *Charmed* (1998), and served as co-producer on *Stranger Things*.

*Sources: imdb.com, castfacts.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (1)

- *Beverly Hills, 90210* (1990), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/beverly-hills-90210.md)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *Stranger Things* (2016), Fi1m 77, Co-Producer, First Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/stranger-things.md)

### Crew (1)

- *Glee* (2009), Fi1m 68, First Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/glee.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *Stranger Things* (2016), series, First Assistant Director, Co-Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/stranger-things.md)
- *Glee* (2009), series, First Assistant Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/glee.md)
- *Charmed* (1998), series, Director, First Assistant Director
- *Pacific Palisades* (1997), series, Director
- *The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.* (1995), First Assistant Director
- *Melrose Place* (1992), series, Director
- *Beverly Hills, 90210* (1990), series, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/beverly-hills-90210.md)
- *The Last Starfighter* (1984), Second Assistant Director

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