Richard Donner
Richard Donner (born Richard Donald Schwartzberg; April 24, 1930–July 5, 2021) was an American film director and producer. Described as "one of Hollywood's most reliable makers of action blockbusters," Donner directed some of the most financially successful films of the 1970s and 1980s. His 50-year career crossed genres and influenced trends among filmmakers across the world. Donner began his career in 1957 as a television director. In the 1960s, he directed episodes of the series The Rifleman, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone, The Banana Splits, and many others. Donner made his film debut with the low-budget aviation drama X-15 in 1961 but had his critical and commercial breakthrough with the horror film The Omen in 1976. He directed the landmark superhero film Superman in 1978, which provided an inspiration for the fantasy film genre to eventually gain artistic respectability and commercial dominance. Donner later went on to direct films in the 1980s such as The Goonies and Scrooged, while reinvigorating the buddy cop film genre with the Lethal Weapon series. Donner and his wife, Lauren, owned a production company, The Donners' Company, which is most successful for producing the Free Willy and X-Men film franchises. Donner also produced Tales from the Crypt and co-wrote several comic books for Superman publisher DC Comics. In 2000, Donner received the President's Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Donner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
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No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
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Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
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Davi's Way
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666: The Omen Revealed
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
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Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
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Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
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Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
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Superman
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Making of a Cult Classic: The Unauthorized Story of 'The Goonies'
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Scream Greats, Vol.2: Satanism and Witchcraft
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Conspiracy Theory
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Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'
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The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
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Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend
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First Works
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Life After Flash
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Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
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The Curse of 'The Omen'
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Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
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The Goonies
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Valerie
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Superman II
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Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
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Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
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Maverick
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Timeline
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Inside Moves
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Out Cold
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16 Blocks
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Casting By
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You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman
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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
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Superman II: Restoring the Vision
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E! True Hollywood Story
Eli Roth's History of Horror
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Tales from the Crypt
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Reunited Apart
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Cursed Films
(Self - Director, The Omen)
HBO First Look
HBO First Look
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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Lassie
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Sam Benedict
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Ladyhawke
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Ladyhawke
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The Omen
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Superman
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Lethal Weapon
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Lethal Weapon 2
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Lethal Weapon 2
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Lethal Weapon 3
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Lethal Weapon
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Lethal Weapon 4
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Lethal Weapon 4
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Lethal Weapon 3
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16 Blocks
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Radio Flyer
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The Toy
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Nightside
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The Goonies
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Conspiracy Theory
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Conspiracy Theory
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The Goonies
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Maverick
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Maverick
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Assassins
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Assassins
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Salt & Pepper
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Any Given Sunday
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Timeline
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Timeline
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Scrooged
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Scrooged
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X-15
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Inside Moves
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Twinky
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Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
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Double Tap
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Two-Fisted Tales
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Philbert (Three's a Crowd)
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Shadow in the Street
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Senior Year
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Lucas Tanner
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Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
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Lethal Weapon 5
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Delirious
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Free Willy
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Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
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The Lost Boys
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The Marshal of Madrid
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Two-Fisted Tales
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X-Men
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The Omen
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Cyndi Lauper: The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
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Made Men
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Bordello of Blood
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Ritual
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W.E.I.R.D. World
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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Free Willy 3: The Rescue
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Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
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Sam Cade
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The Final Conflict
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Superman II
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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The Twilight Zone
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Kojak
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The Interns
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Sam Benedict
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The Eleventh Hour
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Gilligan's Island
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The Fugitive
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Perry Mason
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Route 66
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Combat!
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Felony Squad
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The Wild Wild West
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The F.B.I.
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Have Gun, Will Travel
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Sarge
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Banyon
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Get Smart
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Petrocelli
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Cannon
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Tales from the Crypt
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Ironside
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The Streets of San Francisco
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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
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It's About Time
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Wanted: Dead or Alive
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The Rifleman
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12 O'Clock High
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Mr. Novak
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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
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The Lieutenant
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The Detectives
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Jericho
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Ghost Story
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Letter to Loretta
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Bronk
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Tales from the Crypt
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The Trials of O'Brien
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The Tall Man
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Free Willy
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Perversions of Science
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Bearcats!
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The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
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Wagon Train
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