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American film producer (1932–2012)
(1932-03-11 ) March 11, 1932
November 26, 2012
(2012-11-26) (aged
80 )
Film producer
1971–2012
Mary Lea Johnson Richards
Academy Award for Best Picture Chicago
Martin Richards (born Morton Richard Klein ; March 11, 1932 – November 26, 2012) was an American film producer.
Biography [ edit ]
Richards was born to Sidney "Sid" Klein, a stockbroker, and his wife, Shirley, and was raised just off the Grand Concourse in the Bronx . He had a younger brother named Bruce, and his parents also owned an arcade on the Keansburg Amusement Park in the 1940s. His friends and the friends of his brother always knew he was destined for a career linked to Broadway as he sang show tunes to them as kids.[1]
Richards won an Arthur Godfrey talent search, then appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show Copacabana . He later became a casting director , then a Broadway theatre and film producer.[2]
Richards won the Best Picture Academy Award for Chicago Miramax in 1991.[3] Tony Awards for Best Musical and one Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical , out of 10 nominations.
Personal life [ edit ]
Despite being gay, Richards became the third husband of Johnson & Johnson heiress and producer Mary Lea Johnson Richards ; reportedly, the couple "adored each other". Despite the times being different back then, Richards' friends knew who he was and that he was different and they accepted it and loved him just the same. In his youth Richards and his parents spent their summers in Keansburg, New Jersey where his parents owned a summer business.[4]
Prior to their marriage, Johnson had been married to bisexual child psychiatrist Dr. Victor D'Arc, who she claimed in 1976 had conspired with his homosexual lover to hire a hitman and murder her;[5] [4] [6]
Johnson predeceased Richards in 1990, leaving him a $50 million fortune. Johnson's family waged a twelve-year court battle seeking to render Richards ineligible for a share of the Johnson & Johnson fortune. The court ruled in favor of Richards.[7] Chita Rivera ,[2] [4] Edison Ballroom to benefit the center.[8]
He was also notable for physically assaulting "Stuttering" John Melendez at an event in 1996 while the latter was working for The Howard Stern Show [9] [10]
Richards died from liver cancer at his home in Manhattan on November 26, 2012, at age 80.[11] [12] marquees of Broadway theatres were dimmed in his memory the night of November 27, 2012 at 7 p.m.[13]
Filmography [ edit ]
Broadway Awards [ edit ]
Result
Chicago
Best Musical
Nominated
On the Twentieth Century
Best Musical
Nominated
Sweeney Todd
Best Musical
Won
Crimes of the Heart
Best Play
Nominated
La Cage aux Folles
Best Musical
Won
Grand Hotel
Best Musical
Nominated
The Will Rogers Follies
Best Musical
Won
The Life
Best Musical
Nominated
Sweet Smell of Success
Best Musical
Nominated
La Cage aux Folles
Best Revival of a Musical
Won
References [ edit ]
^ "And The Oscar For Best Acceptance Goes To" . The Free Lance–Star . Retrieved May 21, 2010 .
^ a b c Gordon, Meryl (March 14, 2003). "Hey, Mr. Producer" . New York Media LLC. New York Magazine. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
^ Lovenheim, Barbara (June 21, 1987). "FAMILY FORTUNE: TANGLED TALE" . New York Times . Retrieved October 9, 2010 .
^ Margolick, David (May 4, 1990). "Mary Lea Johnson Richards, 63, Founder of Production Company" . The New York Times . Retrieved May 7, 2010 .
^ Horner, Shirley (February 15, 1987). "ABOUT BOOKS" . The New York Times .
^ GIOIA, MICHAEL (April 8, 2013). "Chita Rivera Hosts April 8 Memorial Celebrating Late Producer Marty Richards With Performances and Tributes" . Playbill. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
^ "R.I.P. Marty Richards" . November 27, 2012.
^ "Howard S TV Stuttering John Gets Slapped 96" . YouTube
^ "Marty Richards, Tony-Winning Broadway and Film Producer, Dies at 80" . Playbill.com. September 14, 2012. Archived from the original on November 30, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2012 .
^ Telegraph.co.uk
^ "BROADWAY AND FILM PRODUCER MARTIN RICHARDS DIES" . AP. Retrieved November 27, 2012 .
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Awards for Martin Richards
Cecil B. DeMille (1952)
Buddy Adler (1953)
Sam Spiegel (1954)
Harold Hecht (1955)
Michael Todd (1956)
Sam Spiegel (1957)
Arthur Freed (1958)
Sam Zimbalist (1959)
Billy Wilder (1960)
Robert Wise (1961)
Sam Spiegel (1962)
Tony Richardson (1963)
Jack L. Warner (1964)
Robert Wise (1965)
Fred Zinnemann (1966)
Walter Mirisch (1967)
John Woolf (1968)
Jerome Hellman (1969)
Frank McCarthy (1970)
Philip D'Antoni (1971)
Albert S. Ruddy (1972)
Tony Bill , Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips (1973)
Francis Ford Coppola , Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos (1974)
Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz (1975)
Charles H. Joffe (1977)
Michael Cimino , Michael Deeley , John Peverall and Barry Spikings (1978)
Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)
Ronald L. Schwary (1980)
David Puttnam (1981)
Richard Attenborough (1982)
James L. Brooks (1983)
Saul Zaentz (1984)
Sydney Pollack (1985)
Arnold Kopelson (1986)
Jeremy Thomas (1987)
Mark Johnson (1988)
Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck (1989)
Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson (1990)
Ron Bozman , Edward Saxon and Kenneth Utt (1991)
Clint Eastwood (1992)
Branko Lustig , Gerald R. Molen and Steven Spielberg (1993)
Wendy Finerman , Steve Starkey and Steve Tisch (1994)
Bruce Davey , Mel Gibson and Alan Ladd Jr. (1995)
Saul Zaentz (1996)
James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997)
Donna Gigliotti , Marc Norman , David Parfitt , Harvey Weinstein and Edward Zwick (1998)
Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)
David Franzoni , Branko Lustig and Douglas Wick (2000)
Martin Richards (2002)
Peter Jackson , Barrie M. Osborne and Fran Walsh (2003)
Clint Eastwood , Tom Rosenberg and Albert S. Ruddy (2004)
Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman (2005)
Graham King (2006)
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Scott Rudin (2007)
Christian Colson (2008)
Kathryn Bigelow , Mark Boal , Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro (2009)
Iain Canning , Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin (2010)
Thomas Langmann (2011)
Ben Affleck , George Clooney and Grant Heslov (2012)
Dede Gardner , Anthony Katagas , Jeremy Kleiner , Steve McQueen and Brad Pitt (2013)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu , John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole (2014)
Blye Pagon Faust , Steve Golin , Nicole Rocklin and Michael Sugar (2015)
Dede Gardner , Jeremy Kleiner and Adele Romanski (2016)
J. Miles Dale and Guillermo del Toro (2017)
Jim Burke , Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly , Nick Vallelonga and Charles B. Wessler (2018)
Bong Joon-ho and Kwak Sin-ae (2019)
Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand , Peter Spears and Chloé Zhao (2020)
Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet , Patrick Wachsberger (2021)
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang (2022)
Emma Thomas , Charles Roven , and Christopher Nolan (2023)
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