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Quick facts for kids Richard Schickel
At the Pentagon to present his documentary Shooting War, 2000
Born	Richard Warren Schickel (1933-02-10)February 10, 1933 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died	February 18, 2017(2017-02-18) (aged 84) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film critic historian filmmaker
Years active	1960–2015

Richard Warren Schickel (born February 10, 1933 – died February 18, 2017) was an American writer and filmmaker. He was known for being a film critic, which means he watched movies and wrote reviews about them. He also studied the history of movies as a film historian.

Schickel worked for Time magazine as a film critic for many years, from 1965 to 2010. He also wrote for other popular magazines like Life and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.

He appeared in a documentary film called For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009). In this film, he talked about how film critics changed over time. He and other critics in the 1960s had different ideas about movies compared to older critics. For example, they disagreed with critics who thought movies like Bonnie and Clyde (1967) were too violent. Besides movies, Schickel also wrote about cartoons, especially Peanuts.

Richard Schickel's Early Life and Family

Richard Schickel was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His parents were Helen and Edward John Schickel.

He had two daughters. Richard Schickel passed away in Los Angeles in 2017, shortly after his 84th birthday.

Awards and Teaching

In 1964, Richard Schickel received a Guggenheim Fellowship. This is a special award given to people who show great ability in arts, sciences, or other fields. He also taught at famous universities like Yale University and the University of Southern California's School of Film and Television.

Books Written by Richard Schickel

Richard Schickel wrote many books, mostly about movies and famous people. Here are some of them:

• The World of Carnegie Hall (1960)
• The Stars (1962)
• The Gentle Knight (1964)
• Movies: The history of an Art and an Institution (1964)
• The World of Goya, 1746–1828 (1968)
• The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney (1968)
• The Museum (1970)
• Second Sight: Notes on Some Movies 1965–1970 (1972)
• His Picture in the Papers: A Speculation on Celebrity in America Based on the Life of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (1974)
• Harold Lloyd: The Shape of Laughter (1974)
• The World of Tennis (1975)
• The Men Who Made The Movies (1975)
• Douglas Fairbanks: The First Celebrity (1976)
• Another I, Another You: A Novel (1978)
• Cary Grant: A Celebration (1983)
• D.W. Griffith: An American Life (1984)
• Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity (1985)
• Lena by Lena Horne and Richard Schickel
• James Cagney: A Celebration (1986)
• Gary Cooper (1986)
• Striking Poses: Photographs from the Kobal Collection (1987)
• Carnegie Hall: The First One Hundred Years by Richard Schickel and Michael Walsh (1987)
• Schickel on Film: Encounters—Critical and Personal—With Movie Immortals (1989)
• Brando: A Life in Our Times (1991)
• Double Indemnity (BFI Film Classics) (1992)
• Clint Eastwood: A Biography (1996)
• Hollywood at Home: A Family Album 1950–1965 (1998)
• Matinee Idylls: Reflections on the Movies (1999)
• Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memory and World War II (2003)
• Woody Allen: A Life in Film (2004)
• Elia Kazan: A Biography (2005)
• Bogie: A Celebration of the Life and Films of Humphrey Bogart (2006)
• The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian (2006) (editor)
• Clint [Eastwood] A Retrospective (2010)
• Conversations with Scorsese (2011)
• Steven Spielberg: A Retrospective (2012)
• Keepers: The Greatest Films - and Personal Favorites - of a Moviegoing Lifetime (2015)

Documentary Films by Richard Schickel

Richard Schickel also directed and wrote many documentary films, often about famous movie directors and actors. Some of his documentaries include:

• The Men Who Made the Movies (1973), an eight-part series for PBS
• Into the Morning: Willa Cather's America (1975)
• Life Goes to the Movies (writer, 1976)
• The Making of Star Wars (writer, 1977)
• Funny Business (1978)
• The Horror Show (1979)
• SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back (writer, 1980)
• James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981)
• From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga (writer, 1983)
• Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza Remembers Vincente (1987)
• Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond (writer, 1987)
• Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (writer, 1988)
• Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend (1989)
• Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (1991)
• Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)
• Eastwood & Co : Making Unforgiven (1992)
• Hollywood on Hollywood (1993)
• Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey (1995)
• Eastwood on Eastwood (1997)
• The Harryhausen Chronicles (1998)
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends (writer, 1999)
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (writer, 2000)
• Shooting War: World War II Combat Cameramen (2000)
• Woody Allen: A Life in Film (2002)
• The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller (2002)
• Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
• Scorsese on Scorsese (2004)
• Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us (2005)
• Spielberg on Spielberg (2007)
• Cannes: All Access (2007)
• Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film (2008)
• You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008), a three-part series
• The Eastwood Factor (2010)
• Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013)

DVD Commentaries

Richard Schickel also provided audio commentaries for many DVDs of classic films. These commentaries offer his insights and knowledge about the movies. Some of the films he commented on include:

• The Big Red One
• Dirty Harry
• Double Indemnity
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• On the Waterfront
• Rebecca
• Unforgiven

See also

• Walt Disney (2015 PBS film)