Dick was a big, larger-than-life, generous, happy guy who just wouldn’t get bogged down in anything petty, wouldn’t get bogged down in competition, he was just always personable. I believe that the director’s personality is on the screen. The good news is all this love came out when he was alive, just his attitude and his joie de vivre,” Shuler Donner said. I have so many emails and texts - I will never be able to get through them. He was larger than life and fun and generous, and everybody who knew him loved him, absolutely loved him.
Donner’s work on many classic TV shows in the 1960s - including the iconic 1963 “Nightmare At 20,000 Feet” episode of The Twilight Zone starring William Shatner (one of many he did for that immortal series) - only prepared us for a memorable, long-lasting film career.
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That debut project co-starred Charles Bronson and a then virtually-unknown Mary Tyler Moore (“Actually Filmed In Space,” the movie poster exclaimed). But he was very sick, so it was time for him to go,” Shuler Donner told me with sadness clearly in her voice, but also a determination to make sure Donner is remembered for everything he stood for, and a remarkable directing career that stretched back more than 60 years after first starting as an actor.ĭonner’s first feature behind the camera was a 1961 film called X-15 (an ironically titled debut film for a man who also was executive producer with his wife on X-Men). Richard Donner Dies: 'Superman', 'Lethal Weapon' And 'The Goonies' Director Was 91
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