---
name: "Richard Friedenberg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/richard-friedenberg"
fi1m_id: "richard-friedenberg"
imdb_id: "nm0295030"
tmdb_id: 4137
wikidata_id: "Q2149512"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-04T21:52:30.701709+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 Friedenberg

## Identity

Richard Friedenberg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/richard-friedenberg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** richard-friedenberg
- **IMDb ID:** nm0295030
- **TMDB ID:** 4137
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2149512
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Friedenberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2149512, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295030/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4137

Writer. Born 1 January 2000 in USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 2000, USA
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Friedenberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2149512, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295030/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4137

## 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).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dying Young* (1991), Fi1m 40, as Jeopardy Contestant — [page](https://film.one/film/dying-young.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *Unbroken: Path to Redemption* (2018), Screenplay
- *Ring of Fire* (2013), Teleplay
- *Of Two Minds* (2012), Writer
- *The 19th Wife* (2010), Teleplay
- *Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas* (2005), Director, Teleplay
- *Twelve Mile Road* (2003), Director, Teleplay
- *Snow in August* (2001), Director, Teleplay
- *The Education of Little Tree* (1997), Director, Screenplay
- *Mr. and Mrs. Loving* (1996), Director, Screenplay
- *A River Runs Through It* (1992), Screenplay
- *Dying Young* (1991), as Jeopardy Contestant · Screenplay — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/dying-young.md)
- *Promise* (1986), Co-Producer, Teleplay
- *The Rogue & Grizzly* (1982), Camera Operator
- *Bitter Harvest* (1981), Teleplay
- *The Bermuda Triangle* (1979), Director
- *The Deerslayer* (1978), Director
- *Grizzly Adams* (1977), series, Director
- *The Adventures of Frontier Fremont* (1976), Director
- *The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams* (1974), Director
- *Hallmark Hall of Fame* (1951), series, Director, Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1993: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *A River Runs Through It*

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

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