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name: "Richard Kletter"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/richard-kletter"
fi1m_id: "richard-kletter"
imdb_id: "nm0459350"
tmdb_id: 262279
wikidata_id: "Q113509694"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T04:43:27.309784+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 Kletter

## Identity

Richard Kletter

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/richard-kletter
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** richard-kletter
- **IMDb ID:** nm0459350
- **TMDB ID:** 262279
- **Wikidata ID:** Q113509694
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113509694, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0459350/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/262279

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113509694, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0459350/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/262279

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Never Cry Wolf*](https://film.one/film/never-cry-wolf.md) (79)

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## Biography

Richard Kletter is a screenwriter, director and producer. He received screenplay credit, shared with Curtis Hanson and Sam Hamm, on the 1983 film *Never Cry Wolf*.

He also wrote the screenplay for *The Black Stallion Returns* (1983). Kletter has written many television films, including *Odd Girl Out* (2005), *Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life* (2005), *She's Too Young* (2004), *Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story* (2020) and *Drunk, Driving, and 17* (2023). He directed *Dangerous Indiscretion* (1995) and *The Android Affair* (1995).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Never Cry Wolf* (1983), Fi1m 79, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/never-cry-wolf.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

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

- *Drunk, Driving, and 17* (2023), Writer
- *Stolen by My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story* (2020), Executive Producer, Writer
- *The Lover in the Attic: A True Story* (2018), Writer
- *Babysitter's Black Book* (2015), Writer
- *The Surrogacy Trap* (2012), Writer
- *Queen Sized* (2008), Writer
- *Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life* (2005), Teleplay
- *Odd Girl Out* (2005), Story, Teleplay
- *She's Too Young* (2004), Writer
- *No Ordinary Baby* (2001), Writer, Co-Producer
- *Missing Pieces* (2001), Teleplay, Co-Producer
- *The Advanced Guard* (1998), Writer
- *The Magnificent Seven* (1998), series, Teleplay, Writer
- *The Android Affair* (1995), Director, Writer, Original Story
- *Dangerous Indiscretion* (1995), Director, Screenplay
- *The Tower* (1993), Director, Screenplay
- *Teach 109* (1990), Director, Writer, Original Story
- *The Man Who Fell to Earth* (1987), Teleplay
- *Never Cry Wolf* (1983), Screenplay — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/never-cry-wolf.md)
- *The Black Stallion Returns* (1983), Screenplay
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, Director, Writer

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