Film & TV
Richard Quine
1920–1989 · film director, actor, singer
Detroit-born child actor turned director of Bell, Book and Candle and The World of Suzie Wong.
- Born
Detroit, Michigan- Died
Los Angeles, California
aged 68- Detroit years
- 1920s
- Field
- Film & TV
01 / The Detroit story
The Detroit story
Richard Quine was born in Detroit, the son of an actor, and grew up in show business. As a child he worked in radio, vaudeville and stage productions, and in his early twenties he was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he played juvenile and romantic parts in films such as Babes on Broadway and For Me and My Gal. When his acting career faded after World War II, he moved behind the camera. Over the next two decades he directed polished comedies and dramas for Columbia and other studios, often with Kim Novak or Jack Lemmon, including Bell, Book and Candle (1958), The World of Suzie Wong (1960), Paris When It Sizzles (1964) and How to Murder Your Wife (1965). He later directed for television, and his last feature was The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) with Peter Sellers.
Highlights
- Directed Bell, Book and Candle (1958) with James Stewart and Kim Novak
- Directed The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
- Directed How to Murder Your Wife (1965) with Jack Lemmon
- MGM contract actor in the early 1940s