Biography
Richard Friedenberg is an American screenwriter and film director. He began his career in the mid-1970s, directing films including The Adventures of Frontier Fremont (1976) and The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1974) for Schick Sunn Classic Pictures.
Friedenberg wrote the teleplay for the Hallmark Hall of Fame television film Promise (1986), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Miniseries or a Special. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for A River Runs Through It (1992). His other credits include the screenplay for Dying Young (1991) and writing and directing The Education of Little Tree (1997). He later co-wrote the screenplay for Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018).
