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William (Wild Bill) Richert

Director/actor/writer

Born - 1 January 1942, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Died - 19 July 2022

Long, lean, latterly bearded maverick American filmmaker who had a novel published at 19. Known for his off-the-wall, often highly original productions, his few films as director included A Dancer's Life (1972), Winter Kills (1979), The American Success Company (1980), Jimmy Reardon (1987) and The Face of Alexandre Dumas: The Man in the Iron Mask (1998). As an actor, he appeared in Law and Disorder (1974), My Own Private Idaho (1991), The Client (1994), The Random Factor (1995), Manic (2001), Here Comes Midnight (2012) and A Journey to a Journey (2016), his last.