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Richard Fleischer 2006 Deaths

Richard FleischerAge: 89 film director whose hits include 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Tora! Tora! Tora!, and Fantastic Voyage. Died: Los Angeles, March 25, 2006Cy FeuerA - FGerald R. Ford…

Lloyd Richards 2006 Deaths

Lloyd RichardsAge: 87 pioneering force in theater and Broadway's first African American director who staged the premiere production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun in 1959. He…

Ann Richards 2006 Deaths

Ann RichardsAge: 73 saucy Texas politician who served as the Democratic governor of Texas from 1990 to 1994, when she narrowly lost the election to George W. Bush. Richards supported rights…

Richard Gilman 2006 Deaths

Richard GilmanAge: 83 drama critic whose championing of abstract, absurd, and highly cerebral plays and disdain for more popular and commercial character-based entertainment made him a…

Richard Perle, 2003 News

government adviser, resigned in March as chairman of the Defense Policy Board, an independent committee that counsels the Pentagon, after being widely criticized for a glaring conflict of…

Richard Sinnott 2003 Deaths

Richard SinnottAge: 76 former chief of the licensing division of Boston who scrutinized movies, plays, music and other forms of entertainment to determine if they should be “banned in Boston…

Richard Pough 2003 Deaths

Richard PoughAge: 99 ecologist who was a founder of the Nature Conservancy. He spent his entire career protecting threatened and endangered species of birds. He wrote the Audobon Bird Guide.…

Richard Schultes 2001 Deaths

Richard SchultesAge: 86 considered the father of ethnobotany, Schultes spent months at a time in the Amazon, chronicling the use of plants by Colombia's indigenous population. He examined…

Richard Scammon 2001 Deaths

Richard ScammonAge: 85 elections expert and political scientist whose encyclopedic knowledge of election results, polls, and census figures made him an invaluable source for journalists and…

Richard Grasso, 2003 News

chairman and chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, resigned in September, after enduring weeks of harsh criticism over his compensation package, which included a payout of $140…