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 • Chuck Menville • Curtis Woodhouse • Edward Stillingfleet • Frank J. Christensen • Gerry McNeil • Jimmy Mann (ice hockey) • Jo-Wilfried Tsonga • Maurice Rouvier • Nicolas François de Neufchâteau • Olivia Hussey • Regina Ghazaryan • Sirimavo Bandaranaike • Travis Roy • Vikram (actor) • Win Maung
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