Robert Richter, Documentary Filmmaker, Dies at 95
variety.comLauren Coates Robert Richter, an independent filmmaker and producer whose credits include nearly 90 documentaries on a wide range of subjects, died at his home in New York City on February 16 following complications associated with heart failure.
He was 95. A three-time Academy Award nominee for best documentary short, Richter’s expanse of accolades included a 2008 National Emmy for “exceptional merit in nonfiction filmmaking” as executive producer on the HBO version of his documentary feature “The Last Atomic Bomb,” and three duPont Columbia Broadcast Journalism awards (TV’s Pulitzer Prize).
Richter was the only independent producer to receive the United Nations Environment Programme’s Global 500 Award. Born and raised in New York City, Richter’s decades-long career in filmmaking began at Occidental College in California with an experimental Telluride Association program, followed by a B.A.
from Reed College in Oregon and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. While studying on a CBS Foundation Scholarship for a Public Law and Government M.A.
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