Donald Richie
Donald Richie was an American-born author who wrote about the Japanese people, the culture of Japan, and especially Japanese cinema. Although he considered himself primarily a film historian, Richie also directed a number of experimental films, the first when he was seventeen.
17 April 1924
Born on the same birth date (17 April 1924): Kenneth Norman Jones
Born on the same birth day (17 April): Avi Kaplan • Buster Williams • Caitlin Parker • Gerry McNeil • Heinz Putzl • Helene Spilling • Henry Ian Cusick • Julia Macur • Lorna Fitzgerald • Marguerite Bourgeoys • Mike Stroud (physician) • Robert Miller (art dealer) • Solly Hemus • Ursula Ledóchowska • Vikram (actor) • Vladimir Polyakov (pole vaulter)
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