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- Richard Rush
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- April 15, 1929
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- 97 years
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- 🇺🇸 United States
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- Actor
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Biography
Richard Rush is 97 years old, an actor, from United States.
Richard Rush (April 15, 1929 – April 8, 2021) was an American film director, scriptwriter, and producer. He is known for directing the 1980 black comedy film The Stunt Man, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. Starting his directing career in 1960, he also directed Freebie and the Bean (1974), a police buddy comedy/drama starring Alan Arkin and James Caan.
His 1994 erotic thriller film, Color of Night, won a Golden Raspberry Award as the worst film of 1994, but Maxim magazine also singled the film out as having the best sex scene in film history. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1990 film Air America.
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