Robert Richter Lifeless: Documentary Filmmaker Was once 95

Robert Richter, an unbiased filmmaker and manufacturer whose credit come with just about 90 documentaries on quite a lot of topics, died at his house in New York Town on February 16 following headaches related to center failure. He was once 95.

A 3-time Academy Award nominee for best possible documentary brief, Richter’s expanse of accolades integrated a 2008 Nationwide Emmy for “outstanding benefit in nonfiction filmmaking” as govt manufacturer at the HBO model of his documentary characteristic “The Closing Atomic Bomb,” and 3 duPont Columbia Broadcast Journalism awards (TV’s Pulitzer Prize). Richter was once the one unbiased manufacturer to obtain the United International locations Surroundings Programme’s International 500 Award.

Born and raised in New York Town, Richter’s decades-long occupation in filmmaking started at Occidental Faculty in California with an experimental Telluride Affiliation program, adopted by means of a B.A. from Reed Faculty in Oregon and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Creator’s Workshop.

Whilst finding out on a CBS Basis Scholarship for a Public Regulation and Govt M.A. at Coumbia, Richter joined the Edward R. Murrow-Fred Pleasant documentary crew and produced primetime documentaries and information options along Walter Cronkite.

Richter left CBS in 1968 to pursue unbiased filmmaking underneath his corporate Richter Productions, Inc., the place he revamped 50 documentaries for primetime tv. Richter produced documentaries for ABC with Peter Jennings as correspondent, for NBC with Phil Donahue, for PBS “Nova” and for different unbiased PBS methods.

Along with generating and filmmaking, Richter led the committee that introduced what evolved into the country’s greatest funder of documentaries by means of unbiased manufacturers: the Impartial Tv Carrier (ITVS). He spent a decade as volunteer president of the Affiliation of Impartial Video and Filmmakers, and 7 years at the World Documentary Affiliation board as their New York consultant. He was once additionally founding chair of the Salem bankruptcy of the American Civil Liberties Union, served at the nationwide ACLU media committee, a board member of CARE, USA, and a Reed Faculty Board of Trustees member.

His memoir “Documentaries and Serendipity” was once revealed in 2022. Richter is survived by means of his spouse of 43 years, Elizabeth (Libby) Bassett; 4 daughters Roxanne, Allison, Rowena and Isabella, and 3 grandchildren Sophia, Samuel and Cyres.