Richard Quine

About

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...

Known for

ColumboSeries • 1971Sex and the Single GirlMovie • 1964Paris When It SizzlesMovie • 1964Bell, Book and CandleMovie • 1958How to Murder Your WifeMovie • 1965PushoverMovie • 1954The Solid Gold CadillacMovie • 1956The World of Suzie WongMovie • 1960The Prisoner of ZendaMovie • 1979The Notorious LandladyMovie • 1962The Clay PigeonMovie • 1949Words and MusicMovie • 1948Strangers When We MeetMovie • 1960CavalcadeMovie • 1933Operation Mad BallMovie • 1957Command DecisionMovie • 1948My Sister EileenMovie • 1955Drive a Crooked RoadMovie • 1954For Me and My GalMovie • 1942It Happened to JaneMovie • 1959King of the UnderworldMovie • 1939The Wackiest Ship in the ArmyMovie • 1960HotelMovie • 1967Babes on BroadwayMovie • 1941