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- Besides his wife (a daughter of Brendan Gill, the longtime writer for The New Yorker), his survivors include their daughter, Emma Gill; a son, Jason Ricker, from his first marriage, to Barbara Mautner; his mother, Estelle Van Pelt; three brothers, Kenneth, Carl and Robert Ricker; and two grandchildren.
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Bruce Ricker (October 10, 1942 – May 13, 2011) was a jazz and blues documentarian. He is best known for his collaboration with Clint Eastwood on films about jazz and blues legends.
Bruce Ricker, the producer-director of a series of documentaries about American musicians, has died. He succumbed to pneumonia on Friday, May 13, at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 68.
Bruce Ricker was born on 10 October 1942 in Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Mystic River (2003), The Bridges of Madison County (1995) and The Last of the Blue Devils (1979). He was married to Kate Gill and Barbara Mautner. He died on 13 May 2011 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Director, Producer, Additional Crew
- October 10, 1942
- Bruce Ricker
- May 13, 2011
May 22, 2011 · He was 68. Ricker’s first film, 1979’s “The Last of the Blue Devils,” about Kansas City jazzmen, featured Count Basie, among others, and led to his relationship with Clint Eastwood, who first saw...
May 19, 2011 · Bruce Ricker, a lawyer turned filmmaker who made jazz resoundingly visible in a series of highly regarded documentaries, died on Friday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 68.
Apr 27, 2020 · Primordial Splendor. April 27 2020. Obviously the landscape paintings of Bruce Ricker are deeply inspired by Eyvind Earle, the grandmaster of magical landscapes.
May 24, 2011 · Ricker, 68, who died of pneumonia May 13 in Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., frequently focused on music during his nearly four-decade career as a documentary filmmaker often associated...
