Highest rated movie: The Bad News Bears (1976)
Lowest rated movie: Cops & Robbersons (1994)
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Movies from this director have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average rating of 59%.
The Bad News Bears is Michael Ritchie's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 12 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Michael Ritchie is Cops & Robbersons, with a score of 41% based on 62 reviews.
Michael Brunswick Ritchie (November 28, 1938 - April 16, 2001) what is an American film director.
Ritchie was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the son of Patricia (née Graney) and Benbow Ferguson Ritchie. His family later moved to Berkeley, California, where his father was a professor of experimental psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, and his mother was the art and music librarian for the city.
He attended Berkeley High School before becoming interested in film, and was accepted at Harvard University following high school.
Ritchie attracted attention in his senior year at Harvard in 1960 by directing the original production of the Arthur Kopit play, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
His work on Kopit's play led to a job offer from Robert Saudek, the producer of the Omnibus television series. Ritchie, therefore, directed episodes of Profiles in Courage and such TV series as The Man From U. N. C. L. E., Dr. Kildare and Felony Squad prior to making his Hollywood feature-film debut in 1969 with Downhill Racer.
His sister, Elsie Ritchie, acted in two of his films (The Candidate and Smile).
In 1994, Ritchie purchased the hacienda-style house at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in the Brentwood district of Los Angeles where Marilyn Monroe died in 1962. He bought it for $995,000.
In 1994, Ritchie moved to Manhattan with his wife, Jimmie B. Ritchie, and daughters, Lillian (b. 1986) and Miriam (b. 1988). His additional children include a son, Steven (b. 1973); daughters Lauren (b. 1966) and Jessica (b. 1973), and two stepchildren, Nelly Bly and Billy Bly.
Ritchie died at age 62 of complications from prostate cancer, on April 16, 2001, in New York.
Michael Ritchie has directed films starring Chevy Chase, George Wyner, M. Emmet Walsh and Walter Matthau.
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