---
name: "Richard Goodwin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/richard-goodwin-35851"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "9 August 1934"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T06:31:52.125493+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 Goodwin

Producer. Born 9 August 1934 in England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 9 August 1934, England, UK
- **Active:** 1968–1984
- **Also known as:** Richard B. Goodwin
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 producing, 1 other
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 75 (1), 1970s 92 (1), 1980s 71 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Goodwin_(producer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19356936, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329545/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35851

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*A Passage to India*](https://film.one/film/a-passage-to-india.md) (71)

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

## Biography

Richard B. Goodwin is a British film producer. He began his career in the film industry in the 1950s, working as a location and production manager before becoming an associate producer on Franco Zeffirelli's *Romeo and Juliet* (1968). He formed a long-term producing partnership with John Brabourne.

Goodwin produced several adaptations of Agatha Christie novels directed by Sidney Lumet and Guy Hamilton, including *Murder on the Orient Express* (1974), *Death on the Nile* (1978), *The Mirror Crack'd* (1980) and *Evil Under the Sun* (1982). With Brabourne, he produced David Lean's *A Passage to India* (1984), which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Other credits include *The Tales of Beatrix Potter* (1971) and *Little Dorrit* (1988). He later served as executive producer on *Seven Years in Tibet* (1997).

Goodwin has been married to director and screenwriter Christine Edzard since 1969. They co-founded Sands Films.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Produced (2) — the average rests on these

- *A Passage to India* (1984), Fi1m 71, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-passage-to-india.md)
- *Romeo and Juliet* (1968), Fi1m 75, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-and-juliet-1968.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Taxi Driver* (1976), Fi1m 92, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/taxi-driver.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *Of Love and Shadows* (1994), Producer
- *The Fool* (1990), Producer
- *Little Dorrit* (1987), Producer
- *A Passage to India* (1984), Producer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/a-passage-to-india.md)
- *Biddy* (1983), Producer
- *Evil Under the Sun* (1982), Producer
- *The Nightingale* (1981), Producer
- *The Mirror Crack'd* (1980), Producer
- *Stories from a Flying Trunk* (1979), Producer
- *Death on the Nile* (1978), Producer
- *Taxi Driver* (1976), Thanks — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/taxi-driver.md)
- *Murder on the Orient Express* (1974), Producer
- *Tales of Beatrix Potter* (1971), Writer, Producer
- *Romeo and Juliet* (1968), Associate Producer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-and-juliet-1968.md)
- *An Evening With The Royal Ballet* (1963), Producer
- *The Grass Is Greener* (1960), Unit Manager

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1985: Best Picture (nominated), for *A Passage to India*

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

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