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  2. After graduating from high school, Donner served in the U.S. Navy, becoming an aerial photographer. He briefly attended New York University but left to pursue a career in acting, relocating to Los Angeles and adopting the stage name "Richard Donner".

  3. May 7, 2024 · They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Richard Donner (born April 24, 1930, New York City, New York, U.S.—died July 5, 2021) was an American film director who emerged in the 1980s as one of Hollywood ’s most reliable makers of action blockbusters, most notably the Lethal Weapon films.

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  4. Jun 7, 2021 · Salkind told him he’d secured Marlon Brando as Superman’s father, Jor-El, and Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, had a script by The Godfather ’s Mario Puzo, and would pay Donner $1 million. Donner ...

  5. Apr 1, 2016 · Now he told Donner that he was months away from shooting Superman but had lost his original director, Guy Hamilton (Goldfinger). He wanted to offer Donner the job, along with a massive $1 million fee.

  6. Jul 6, 2021 · After graduating from high school, he served as an aerial photographer in the Navy and studied business at New York University.

  7. Jul 5, 2021 · Alonso Duralde. July 5, 2021 @ 3:29 PM. Director Richard Donner, who died on Monday at age 91, was once compared to Victor Fleming (“Gone with the Wind”) and Michael Curtiz (“Casablanca”),...

  8. Richard Donner was born Richard Donald Schwartzberg in the Bronx, New York City in 1930. He joined the Navy after high school and became an aerial photographer for a small carrier. His interest in photography grew in the service and after he was discharged, he began working for a number of small industrial companies.