Richard Quine November 12 1920 June 10 1989 was an American stage film and radio actor and film director Quine was born in Detroit He made his Broadway debut in the Jerome KernOscar Hammerstein II musical Very Warm for May in 1939 and appeared in My Sister Eileen the following year His screen acting credits include The World Moves On 1934 Jane Eyre 1934 Babes on Broadway 1941 My Sister Eileen 1942 and Words and Music 1948 among others At MGM he became friends with Mickey Rooney and later directed several of Rooneys films During World War II Quine served in the United States Coast Guard He married actress Susan Peters in November 1943 After the war he tried directing first as coproducer and codirector on Leather Gloves 1948 with William Asher before his first solo effort on the musical The Sunny Side of the Street 1951 His directing credits include Pushover 1954 My Sister Eileen 1955 Operation Mad Ball 1957 Bell Book and Candle 1958 Strangers When We Meet 1960 and The World of Suzie Wong 1960 He also produced such films as the comedy Paris When It Sizzles 1964 with Audrey Hepburn and William Holden How to Murder Your Wife 1965 with Jack Lemmon Synanon 1966 and Hotel 1967 By the late 1960s his output fell and in the 1970s Quine made only a few disappointing films Turning to television he had in the 19541955 season created with Blake Edwards the first Mickey Rooney series The Mickey Rooney Show Hey Mulligan which aired on NBC Quine later directed three episodes of Peter Falks Columbo including Dagger Of The Mind an episode set in Britain which some UK fans of that series regard as an embarrassment He also worked on another much less successful NBC Mystery Movie series McCoy starring Tony Curtis His final work was on The Prisoner of Zenda 1979 with Peter Sellers although he was briefly part of the crew for another Sellers film The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu 1980 for which he received no credit His first wife whom he married on 11 July 1943 was actress Susan Peters who was crippled from the waist down on a hunting trip with Quine in 1945 when her 22caliber rifle accidentally discharged The bullet lodged in her spine On 17 April 1946 the couple adopted an infant whom they named Timothy Richard Quine They divorced in 1948 and she died of the effects of anorexia nervosa in 1952 at age 31 Quine was later engaged to Kim Novak but the two did not marry He also married actresses Barbara Bushman with whom he had two daughters Katherine and Victoria Fran Jeffries and Diana Balfour After an extended period of depression and poor health Quine committed suicide by shooting himself in Los Angeles on June 10 1989 A rifle injury eerily reminiscent of his first wifes hunting accident Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Quine licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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