Richard Donner, film director. Born: 24 April 1930 in New York City, USA. Died: 5 July 2021 in Los Angeles, aged 91He never got even a whiff of an Oscar or Bafta nomination, but Richard Donner directed some of the biggest and most influential movie hits of the 1970s and 1980s.
A decade after Batman and Robin went all pow, bam and holy camp dialogue on television, Donner gave costumed superheroes back their respect with his big-screen reboot of Superman.
Donner had signs made with the word “Verisimilitude” on them, Superman was promoted with the tagline “You’ll believe a man can fly” and it was the highest earning film of 1979.
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