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W.D. Richter
Writer 80 years old

W.D. Richter

New Britain, Connecticut, USA

Walter Duch Richter (born 7 December 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director and film producer. He is best known for adapting Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directing The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and co-writing Big Trouble in Little... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

9 titles
Stealth

Stealth

Rob Cohen 2005 2h 1m 5.1

Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.

Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays

Jodie Foster 1995 1h 43m

After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their crazy antics.

Needful Things

Needful Things

Fraser Clarke Heston 1993 2h 1m 7.5

The devil in disguise comes to a quiet, peaceful town and opens a store called Needful Things. The store has an item for everyone in town. All the devil asks for in return is a few dirty pranks. Little do they know, that they've sold their souls, and the pranks escalate to murder.

All Night Long

All Night Long

Jean-Claude Tramont 1981 1h 27m 7.0

A middle-aged executive's lifestyle and values are turned upside down after he is demoted to chain-store night manager.

Brubaker

Brubaker

Stuart Rosenberg 1980 2h 5m 7.3
Dracula

Dracula

John Badham 1979 1h 49m 8.1

Throughout history he has filled the hearts of men with terror, and the hearts of women with desire. The story of the greatest lover who ever lived, died, and lived again.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Philip Kaufman 1978 1h 56m 7.3

Space-originating plants are changing people into something else with their pods.

Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon

Peter Bogdanovich 1976 2h 6m 5.0

Going from a lawyer to a writer, and then to a film director, is the career path on which we find the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan's vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway!

Peeper

Peeper

Peter Hyams 1975 1h 27m 5.0

In 1947, a smart-mouthed Brit working in L.A. as a private eye (or peeper) is on a case to find the long lost daughter of a shady client pursued by two dangerous goons. The case leads him to a rich oddball Beverly Hills family.

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