Richard Quine

Biography

Richard Quine (November 12, 1920 – June 10, 1989) was an American stage, film, and radio actor and film director. Quine was born in Detroit. He made his Broadway debut in the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical Very Warm for May in 1939 and appeared in My Sister Eileen the following year. His screen acting credits include The World Moves On (1934), Jane Eyre (1934), Babes on Broadway (1941), My Sister Eileen (1942), and Words and Music (1948), among others. At MGM he became friends with Mickey Rooney and later directed several of Rooney's films. During World War II, Quine served in the United States Coast Guard, He married actress Susan Peters in November 1943. After the war, he tried directing, first as co-producer and co-director on Leather Gloves (1948), with William Asher, before his first solo effort on the musical The Sunny Side of the Street (1951). His directing credits include Pushover (1954), My Sister Eileen (1955), Operation Mad Ball (1957), Bell, Book and Candle (1958), Strangers When We Meet (1960), and The World of Suzie Wong (1960). He also produced such films as the comedy Paris, When It Sizzles (1964) with Audrey Hepburn and William Holden, How to Murder Y…

Directed

1. Columbo (1971) — Director
2. Bell, Book and Candle (1958) — Director
3. Paris When It Sizzles (1964) — Director
4. How to Murder Your Wife (1965) — Director
5. Sex and the Single Girl (1964) — Director
6. Pushover (1954) — Director
7. It Happened to Jane (1959) — Director
8. The Notorious Landlady (1962) — Director
9. Strangers When We Meet (1960) — Director
10. The World of Suzie Wong (1960) — Director
11. The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) — Director
12. The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) — Director
13. Drive a Crooked Road (1954) — Director
14. My Sister Eileen (1955) — Director
15. Operation Mad Ball (1957) — Director
16. Hotel (1967) — Director
17. The Moonshine War (1970) — Director
18. W (1974) — Director
19. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1967) — Director
20. Siren of Bagdad (1953) — Director
21. A Talent for Loving (1969) — Director
22. Hec Ramsey (1972) — Director
23. Full of Life (1956) — Director
24. Project U.F.O. (1978) — Director
25. Hey Mulligan (1954) — Director
26. All Ashore (1953) — Director
27. Synanon (1965) — Director
28. So This Is Paris (1954) — Director
29. Catch-22 (1973) — Director
30. Sunny Side of the Street (1951) — Director
31. Sound Off (1952) — Director
32. The Awful Sleuth (1951) — Director
33. The Specialists (1975) — Director
34. Leather Gloves (1948) — Director
35. Cruisin' Down the River (1953) — Director
36. A Slip and a Miss (1950) — Director
37. Woo-Woo Blues (1951) — Director
38. Purple Heart Diary (1951) — Director
39. Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1952) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Cavalcade (1933) — Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
2. For Me and My Gal (1942) — Danny Hayden (uncredited)
3. The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
4. Counsellor at Law (1933) — Richard Dwight Jr.
5. King of the Underworld (1939) — Medical Student (uncredited)
6. Babes on Broadway (1941) — Morton Hammond
7. My Sister Eileen (1942) — Frank Lippincott
8. Command Decision (1948) — Maj. George Rockton
9. The Clay Pigeon (1949) — Ted Niles
10. Words and Music (1948) — Ben Feiner Jr.
11. Stand by for Action (1942) — Ensign Lindsay
12. Jane Eyre (1934) — John Reed
13. The Flying Missile (1950) — Amn. Hank Weber
14. Life Returns (1935) — Mickey
15. The World Changes (1933) — Young Richard (uncredited)
16. No Sad Songs for Me (1950) — Brownie
17. Wednesday's Child (1934) — Young Boy (uncredited)
18. Twiggy (2025) — (archival footage)
19. The Cockeyed Miracle (1946) — Howard Bankson
20. Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942) — Dr. Dennis Lindsey
21. Dinky (1935) — Jackie Shaw
22. Tish (1942) — Theodore 'Ted' Bowser
23. Little Men (1934) — Ned
24. We've Never Been Licked (1943) — Brad Craig
25. A Dog of Flanders (1935) — Pieter Vanderkloot
26. Rookie Fireman (1950) — Johnny Truitt