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), Little Men (1934), Babes on Broadway (1941), My Sister Eileen (1942), Command Decision 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), Operation Mad Ball (1957), Bell, Book and Candle (1958), Strangers When We Meet (1960), and The World of Suzie Wong (1960). He made several films in collaboration with Blake Edwards including My Sister Eileen (1955) and The Notorious Landlady (1962).Some of Quine's earlier projects, particularly Drive a Crooked Road and Pushover, are regarded as classic examples of film noir.He also produced some of his films such as Paris, When It Sizzles (1964) with Audrey Hepburn and William Holden, How to Murder Your Wife (1965) with Jack Lemmon, Synanon (1966), and Hotel (1967).By the late 1960s his output fell and in the 1970s Quine made only a few disappointing films. Having in the 1954–1955 season created with Blake Edwards the first Mickey Rooney series, The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan, which aired on NBC, Quine turned to television in the 1970s, directing three episodes of Peter Falk's Columbo, including "Dagger of the Mind", an episode set in Britain. Some UK fans of that series regard this episode as an embarrassment for its unrealistic depiction of the country, as was the case with The Notorious Landlady (1962). He also worked on another, much less successful NBC Mystery Movie series, McCoy, reuniting him with star Tony Curtis.His final work was on The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) with Peter Sellers, although he was briefly part of the crew for another Sellers film, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), for which he received no credit. Quine's work is often seen as part of the expressive sentimental style of film directing.His first wife, whom he married on November 7, 1943, was actress Susan Peters, who was crippled from the waist down on a hunting trip with Quine in 1945 when she reached to the ground for her 22-caliber rifle, and it accidentally discharged. The bullet lodged in her spine. They divorced in 1948, and she died of the effects of anorexia nervosa in 1952, at age 31. On April 17, 1946, the couple adopted an infant, whom they named Timothy Richard Quine.Quine was later engaged to Kim Nova
Contract director at Columbia in 1948. He left Columbia for three years, then came back in 1951 and stayed there until 1960.
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Father, with Barbara Bushman, of daughters Katherine Quine and Victoria Quine.
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He reportedly killed himself because he was not able to make the kind of light comedy films he wanted to make.
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Met fellow MGM contract player Susan Peters on the set of the film Tish (1942). They became engaged during the filming of their second movie together, Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942).
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Young, earnest MGM actor during WWII who started in vaudeville as a child and was a young radio singer for a time.
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Served in the United States Coast Guard during the war.
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On New Year's Day, 1945, he and wife Susan Peters embarked on a duck hunting trip with Richard's cousin, Tom Quine, and his wife, in the Cuyamaca Mountains near San Diego. Susan accidentally dropped her .22-caliber rifle, and as she bent over to pick it up off the ground it went off. She was left paralyzed from the waist down.
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He and wife Susan Peters adopted a baby boy, Timothy Richard Quine (aka Richard Quine), a little more than a year after Susan's tragic hunting accident. They divorced two years later.
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Abandoned acting and turned to producing and directing after getting a taste of it assistant directing the film Leather Gloves (1948).
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