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David Lowell Rich is a Director and Supervising Producer American born on 31 august 1920 at New York City (USA)
David Lowell Rich (born August 31, 1923) is an American film director and producer. He has directed nearly 100 films and TV episodes between 1950 and 1987. He was born in New York City.
He began directing on a regular basis in 1950. Rich won an Emmy for outstanding direction of a special in 1978 for The Defection of Simas Kudirka.
His brother was director John Rich.
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David Lowell Rich
Nationality USA
Birth 31 august 1920 at New York City (USA)
Death 21 october 2001 (at 81 years)
Awards Primetime Emmy Award
Birth 31 august 1920 at New York City (USA)
Death 21 october 2001 (at 81 years)
Awards Primetime Emmy Award
He began directing on a regular basis in 1950. Rich won an Emmy for outstanding direction of a special in 1978 for The Defection of Simas Kudirka.
His brother was director John Rich.
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Infidelity (1987)
, 1h35Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kirstie Alley, Lee Horsley, Robert Englund, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Lindsay Parker
Rating72%
A happily married couple, Ellie (Kirstie Alley) and Nick Denato (Lee Horsley) are living in the wildlife of Africa with their young daughter Melissa (Lindsay Parker). Even though they have everything that they had ever wanted there, they return to San Francisco so Nick can focus on his career as a photographer and she can give birth to their second child. Soon, life goes on a downward spiral for the high-powered, two-career couple, as Ellie is not satisfied in their surroundings. She misses her life as a doctor in Africa and suspects that Nick is not faithful to her when Scott's young and attractive assistant Robin (Courtney Thorne-Smith) arrives. When his partner Scott (Robert Englund) convinces Nick to go on a business trip to Nepal for six weeks, she reluctantly accepts the situation.
Choices (1986)
, 1h35Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors George C. Scott, Jacqueline Bisset, Melissa Gilbert, Lorena Gale, Michael Sinelnikoff, Vlasta Vrána
Rating58%
The film focuses on a 62-year-old judge who rethinks his opposition to abortion when he finds out both his 19-year-old daughter and 38-year-old wife are pregnant. When his daughter contemplates an abortion without informing her boyfriend, the judge immediately expresses his disapproval. He changes his mind when he finds out his wife is pregnant as well. The three are all forced to make important choices.
Scandal Sheet (1985)
, 1h41Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Burt Lancaster, Robert Urich, Peter Jurasik, Pamela Reed, Lauren Hutton, Bobby Di Cicco
Rating52%
Harold Fallen (Burt Lancaster) a sleazy tabloid publisher in Scandal Sheet . Interested only in selling papers, Fallen sees an easy target in a recovering alcoholic actor Ben Rowan (Robert Urich) trying to make a comeback. Reporter Helen Grant (Pamela Reed) is in serious economic trouble, and Fallen hires her to dig up dirt on the actor due to her close friendship with his wife (Lauren Hutton). Helen must now choose between her friendship and journalistic integrity on one hand and her desperation and Harold Fallen persuasive ways on the other.
Thursday's Child (1983)
, 1h40Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Rob Lowe, Gena Rowlands, Don Murray, Jessica Walter, Tracey Gold, Heidi Bohay
Rating67%
Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still be a joyful teenager to not have his parents worrying even more than they already do. His health is deteriorating, though, and it is eventually revealed that he needs a heart transplant if he wants to survive. This is the beginning of a long and a both mentally and physically exhausting journey including countless operations, tests, and search for donors. Even before the final operation, Sam is forced to deal with several setbacks in his life.
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981)
, 1h32Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden, Danny Aiello, Danny Glover, Vincent Schiavelli
Rating42%
Once a big-league baseball player known as the Philly Flash, he is now broke and a drunk, reduced to a life on the street, washing car windshields for spare change or trying to sell stolen wristwatches to passersby.
The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
, 2h3Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Sylvia Kristel, George Kennedy, Eddie Albert
Rating45%
Kevin Harrison (Robert Wagner), a corrupt arms dealer, attempts to destroy an American-owned Concorde on its maiden flight after one of the passengers, reporter Maggie Whelan (Susan Blakely), learns of his weapons sales to communist countries during the Cold War.
, 1h40Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Alan Arkin, Richard Jordan, Donald Pleasence, George Dzundza, Nicholas Guest, Jack Blessing
Rating70%
The movie revolves around real-life Lithuanian seaman Simas Kudirka, a radio operator on a Soviet fish processing vessel. When his ship meets at sea with a U.S. Coast Guard cutter near Martha's Vineyard in early 1970, Kudirka makes a dramatic leap from the deck, landing on the USCGC Vigilant. He announces that he wishes to defect, but confusion over U.S. policy on defections prevents the Americans from offering him asylum. As the crew of the Vigilant looks on helplessly, Soviet officers are allowed to board the cutter, beat and bind Kudirka, and drag him back to his own ship. This tinderbox political incident occurs during a Soviet/U.S. conference over fishing rights. The ultimate fate of Simas Kudirka provides the core of the script.
Little Women (1978)
, 3h20Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Political films, Children's films
Actors Meredith Baxter, Susan Dey, Eve Plumb, Dorothy McGuire, William Shatner, Ann Dusenberry
Rating66%
C'est l'histoire des quatre filles d'un médecin, le Dr March, à l'époque de la guerre de sécession. La famille vit à Concord dans le Massachusetts, la mère, la tante et chacune des jeunes filles, Meg, Jo, Beth et Amy sont dans l'attente du retour du Dr March qui est au front. Chacune des jeunes filles vit ses propres rêves.
SST: Death Flight (1977)
, 1h29Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Barbara Anderson, Peter Graves, Bert Convy, Lorne Greene, Tina Louise, Season Hubley
Rating41%
On the flight of Maiden 1, the first American supersonic transport, Captain Jim Walsh (Robert Reed) is the assigned pilot on an attempt to set a world speed record from New York to Paris. The flight crew includes the navigator (Robert Ito), stewardess Mae (Tina Louise) and steward (Billy Crystal). The select group on the ceremonial first flight include passengers and executives. On board is Willy Basset (Burgess Meredith), the designer of the SST, Tim Vernon (Bert Convy), the Cutlass Airlines head of publicity who is having an affair with "Miss SST" Angela Garland (Misty Rowe), the model who is the public face of the new aircraft. Hank Fairbanks (Doug McClure), an ex-pilot who now works for an airline group in South America as an aircraft buyer, accompanies the other VIPs, and wants to renew an earlier romance with Mae.
The Story of David (1976)
, 3h11Directed by David Lowell Rich, Alex Segal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Timothy Bottoms, Anthony Quayle, Norman Rodway, Keith Michell, Jane Seymour, Susan Hampshire
Rating62%
The narrative follows David's life from the time he was a boy shepherd to his death as the aged King of Israel. Part 1: David and King Saul relates the exploits of the young David (Bottoms) and his relations with King Saul (Quayle). It begins with David as a humble shepherd who becomes harp player to the King who is distraught after the prophet Samuel has chastised him for failing to follow the instructions of the Israelite god, Yahweh, in a battle. Samuel informs Saul that Yahweh will anoint another king in his place. Saul is full of jealous rage as David becomes hero to his people after the battle with Goliath and his subsequent anointment. Saul makes attempts on David's life. David is highly conflicted over his devotion to Saul as Yahweh's first anointed King over the people. He will not kill Saul, despite Saul's constant attempts on his own life, as he feels it will offend the deity. Saul dies in battle and David assumes the throne. Part 2: David the King begins with a mature David (Michell) and tells the story of his sinning with Bathseba (Seymour), including the scenes with her bath and their subsequent love-making. As David ages he is challenged by the treason of one of his sons, and eventually passes the crown on to another of his sons, Solomon.
State Fair (1975)
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Genres Drama
Actors Vera Miles, Mitch Vogel, Julie Cobb, Linda Purl, Jack Garner, Virginia Gregg
Rating46%
Adventures of the Queen (1975)
, 1h38Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Disaster, Action
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Robert Stack, David Hedison, Ralph Bellamy, Bradford Dillman, Sorrell Booke, John Randolph
Rating51%
Un maître chanteur aidé d'un groupe d'hommes a déposé une bombe sur le navire S.S. Queen. Il exige que l'armateur lui verse une somme exorbitante sur un compte protégé. Après que les passagers ont repris le contrôle de la situation, le chef des terroristes meurt sans avoir donné les codes d'annulation de l'explosif. L'équipage va devoir jouer la course contre la montre pour désactiver l'engin mortel.
Northeast of Seoul (1974)
, 1h24Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors Anita Ekberg, John Ireland, Victor Buono
Rating50%
That Man Bolt (1973)
, 1h43Directed by Henry Levin, David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Fred Williamson, Teresa Graves, Masatoshi Nakamura, John Orchard, Jack Ging, Kenji Kazama
Rating57%
Courier Jefferson Bolt is asked to take a briefcase from Hong Kong to Mexico City, but he is not told what is in it or the identity of the man who asks him, a man named Griffiths. Convinced he will get good pay and see a few good places, Bolt takes on the job, while looking out for anything suspicious. Soon he does find exotic places, beautiful women, and ruthless gunmen interested in the briefcase.
Satan's School for Girls (1973)
, 1h18Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Horror, Crime
Actors Pamela Franklin, Kate Jackson, Lloyd Bochner, Roy Thinnes, Jo Van Fleet, Cheryl Ladd
Rating52%
The film opens with a mysterious person chasing a student, Martha Sayers (Terry Lumley). The same day, the police and her sister Elizabeth (Pamela Franklin) find her hanged in her room. The police rule her death as an unmotivated suicide, but Elizabeth refuses to believe this and investigates further. She decides to visit the exclusive academy that Martha attended, The Salem Academy for Women, despite warnings from Martha's roommate, Lucy Dembrow (Gwynne Gilford). Under the assumed name of Elizabeth Morgan, she enrolls at the college, where she is welcomed by her classmates Roberta Lockhart (Kate Jackson), Debbie Jones (Jamie Smith Jackson) and Jody Keller (Cheryl Ladd).