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Apr 10, 1993 · Richard Kurt Schmiechen was born in St. Louis on July 10, 1947, and was brought up in Pekin, Ill. He was a graduate of Grinnell College in Iowa and attended film school at Columbia College in Chicago.
May 22, 2020 · And the community of fellow makers—my collaborators—who were just as committed as I was: producer Richard Schmiechen, a man whose incredible moral and ethical compass kept me and our project on track, who died of AIDS a mere eight years after our film premiered; cinematographer Frances Reid who started working with me before we had any funding; brilliant coeditor Debbie Hoffmann; associate producer Greg Bex; assistant editor Tim O’Shea; researcher Bob Hawk; consultant Jeffrey Friedman ...
Apr 10, 1993 · Richard Schmiechen, who won an Academy Award for the best feature documentary of 1984, “The Times of Harvey Milk,” has died at age 45. Schmiechen died Wednesday at Midway Hospital in Los ...
Mar 22, 2011 · Mar 22, 2011. I n 1985, deep into the twelve-year reign of the Reagan-Bush administration, Rob Epstein mounted a Hollywood stage with Richard Schmiechen, both men resplendent in tuxedos. Epstein was only twenty-nine years old. The director had just made history, with producer Schmiechen, by winning the first Oscar for an openly gay film—and ...
Richard Schmiechen. Producer: The Times of Harvey Milk. Richard Schmiechen was born on 10 July 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The Times of Harvey Milk (1984), Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker (1992) and Roseland (1977).
- Producer, Director, Cinematographer
- July 10, 1947
- Richard Schmiechen
- April 7, 1993
Box office. $29,802. The Times of Harvey Milk is a 1984 American documentary film that premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, [2] and then on November 1, 1984, at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. The film was directed by Rob Epstein, produced by Richard Schmiechen, [3] and narrated by Harvey Fierstein, with an ...
Mar 22, 2011 · A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world. The Oscar-winning The Times of Harvey Milk, directed by Robert Epstein and produced by Richard Schmiechen, was as groundbreaking as its subject. One of the first feature documentaries to address gay life in America, it’s a work ...
