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): Andrea Gritti • Billy Fury • Buster Williams • Chad Hedrick • Claire Sweeney • Clare Francis • Colin Tyre, Lord Tyre • Demetrios Petrokokkinos • Henry Ian Cusick • John Robertson (Glasgow MP) • Laslo Babits • Liz Phair • Maynard James Keenan • Mikael Åkerfeldt • Rooney Mara • Thornton Wilder
Born in the same month (April 1924): Anthony Farrar-Hockley • Bobby Ávila • Brendan Byrne • Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown • Clement Freud • Dick Ayers • John Harvey-Jones • Leslie Phillips • M. Canagaratnam • Madanjeet Singh • Marlon Brando • Raymond Barre • Ruth Kobart • Sheldon Harnick • Shorty Rogers • Stanley Donen