Robert Richter, an unbiased filmmaker and producer whose credit score embrace nearly 90 documentaries on a wide range of matters, died at his residence in New York Metropolis on February 16 following issues associated to coronary coronary heart failure. He was 95.
A 3-time Academy Award nominee for best documentary fast, Richter’s expanse of accolades included a 2008 Nationwide Emmy for “distinctive profit in nonfiction filmmaking” as authorities producer on the HBO mannequin of his documentary operate “The Ultimate Atomic Bomb,” and three duPont Columbia Broadcast Journalism awards (TV’s Pulitzer Prize). Richter was the one unbiased producer to acquire the United Nations Setting Programme’s Worldwide 500 Award.
Born and raised in New York Metropolis, Richter’s decades-long career in filmmaking began at Occidental College in California with an experimental Telluride Affiliation program, adopted by a B.A. from Reed College in Oregon and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop.
Whereas discovering out on a CBS Foundation Scholarship for a Public Regulation and Authorities M.A. at Coumbia, Richter joined the Edward R. Murrow-Fred Nice documentary employees and produced primetime documentaries and knowledge choices alongside Walter Cronkite.
Richter left CBS in 1968 to pursue unbiased filmmaking beneath his agency Richter Productions, Inc., the place he transformed 50 documentaries for primetime television. Richter produced documentaries for ABC with Peter Jennings as correspondent, for NBC with Phil Donahue, for PBS “Nova” and for various unbiased PBS packages.
Together with producing and filmmaking, Richter led the committee that launched what developed into the nation’s largest funder of documentaries by unbiased producers: the Unbiased Television Service (ITVS). He spent a decade as volunteer president of the Affiliation of Unbiased Video and Filmmakers, and seven years on the Worldwide Documentary Affiliation board as their New York advisor. He was moreover founding chair of the Salem chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, served on the nationwide ACLU media committee, a board member of CARE, USA, and a Reed College Board of Trustees member.
His memoir “Documentaries and Serendipity” was printed in 2022. Richter is survived by his partner of 43 years, Elizabeth (Libby) Bassett; 4 daughters Roxanne, Allison, Rowena and Isabella, and three grandchildren Sophia, Samuel and Cyres.
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