| 词条 | Michael Ritchie (film director) |
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|name = Michael Ritchie |image = |caption = |birth_name = Michael Brunswick Ritchie |birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|11|28}} |birth_place = Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States |death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|4|16|1938|11|28}} |death_place = Manhattan, New York, United States |years_active = |spouse = Jimmie B. Ritchie |children = 5 |occupation = Film director }} Michael Brunswick Ritchie (November 28, 1938 – April 16, 2001) was an American film director of films with comical or satirical leanings, such as The Candidate and Smile. He scored commercial successes directing sports films like Downhill Racer, The Bad News Bears and Chevy Chase's Fletch comedies. Personal lifeRitchie was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the son of Patricia (née Graney) and Benbow Ferguson Ritchie. His family later moved to Berkeley, California, where his father was a professor of experimental psychology at the University of California at Berkeley[1] and his mother was the art and music librarian for the city. He attended Berkeley High School before becoming interested in film, and was accepted at Harvard University following high school. He told Redford's biographer, author Michael Feeney Callan, that academic interest in film culture was the basis and drive for his career.{{cite quote|date=May 2015}} In 1994, Ritchie purchased the hacienda-style house at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, in the Brentwood district of Los Angeles, where Marilyn Monroe died in 1962. He bought the property for $995,000 and it became his Los Angeles family base.[2] Also in 1994, Ritchie moved to Manhattan with his wife, Jimmie B. Ritchie, and daughters, Lillian (b. 1986) and Miriam (b. 1988). His additional children include a son, Steven (b. 1973); daughters Lauren (b. 1966) and Jessica (b. 1973), and two stepchildren, Nelly Bly and Billy Bly. His sister, Elsie Ritchie, acted in two of his films: The Candidate and Smile. CareerWhile at Harvard, Ritchie directed the original production of the Arthur Kopit play, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This led Robert Saudek to offer him a job, and Ritchie worked on several TV series prior to his film debut in 1969 with Downhill Racer.[3] As a director, Ritchie's output was highly varied. Although originally known for his sports films and satires in the 1970s, such as The Candidate and The Bad News Bears, he became more known for his broad comedies in the 1980s, such as Fletch.[4] Ritchie also briefly pursued a career as an author, writing Please Stand By: A Prehistory of Television, a nonfiction book about the experimental period of the television industry from the 1920s through the 1940s.[5] Death and legacyChris Willman of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "It’s difficult to think of any director, ever, who had a more consistently uneven career."[4] According to Jean-Pierre Coursodon, his films were recognized as "unpretentious, closely observed, finely textured works...there comes a point when, looking back, one sees that their consistency itself – consistent excellence – is telling us something: something about the way that cinema itself is able to move out and look around."[6] Ritchie died from complications related to prostate cancer. Filmography
References1. ^Michael Ritchie Biography (1938-2001) 2. ^{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1994-11-08/local/me-60117_1_marilyn-monroe|title=BRENTWOOD : Marilyn Monroe's House Sold, May Be Torn Down|author=|work=Los Angeles Times|date=1994-11-08|accessdate=2015-05-10}} 3. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/18/arts/michael-ritchie-62-director-of-smile-and-downhill-racer.html|title=Michael Ritchie, 62, Director Of 'Smile' and 'Downhill Racer'|last=van Gelder|first=Lawrence|work=The New York Times|date=2001-04-18|accessdate=2015-05-10}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,107751,00.html|title=EW.com's tribute to Downhill Racer director Michael Ritchie|last=Willman|first=Chris|work=Entertainment Weekly|accessdate=2015-05-10}} 5. ^{{cite book |last=Ritchie |first=Michael |date=1994 |title=Please Stand By: A Prehistory of Television |location=Woodstock, N.Y. |publisher=The Overlook Press |isbn=0-87951-615-1}} 6. ^{{cite book|title=American Directors Volume II|first=Jean-Pierre|last=Coursodon|authorlink=Jean-Pierre Coursodon|publisher=McGraw-Hill Paperbacks|location=New York|year=1983|isbn=007013264X|page=313}} External links
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