Biography
William Richert was an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Born in Florida in 1942, he worked on documentaries in the early 1970s before writing screenplays for features such as Law and Disorder (1974) and The Happy Hooker (1975).
Richert directed Winter Kills (1979), The American Success Company (1980) and A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988). He played the role of Bob Pigeon in Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho (1991) and appeared in other films including The Client (1994). He died in Portland, Oregon, on 19 July 2022.
