Richard Quine

Personal Info

Birthday

November 12, 1920

Day of Death

1989-06-10

(68 years old)

Place of Birth

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Richard Quine

Biography

Richard Quine (November 12, 1920 – June 10, 1989) was an American stage, film, and radio actor and film director. Quine was born in Detroit.

He made his Broadway debut in the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical Very Warm for May in 1939 and appeared in My Sister Eileen the following year. His screen acting credits include The World Moves On (1934), Jane Eyre (1934), Babes on Broadway (1941), My Sister Eileen (1942), and Words and Music (1948), among others. At MGM he became friends with Mickey Rooney and later directed several of Rooney's films.

Known For

Command Decision

Words and Music

My Sister Eileen

Twiggy

Cavalcade

Life Returns

For Me and My Gal

Stand by for Action

Filmography

2025
Twiggy
as (archival footage)
1960
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
as Narrator (uncredited)
1950
The Flying Missile
as Amn. Hank Weber
No Sad Songs for Me
as Brownie
1949
The Clay Pigeon
as Ted Niles
1948
Words and Music
as Ben Feiner Jr.
Command Decision
as Maj. George Rockton
1946
The Cockeyed Miracle
as Howard Bankson
1943
We've Never Been Licked
as Brad Craig
1942
Stand by for Action
as Ensign Lindsay
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
as Dr. Dennis Lindsey
For Me and My Gal
as Danny Hayden (uncredited)
My Sister Eileen
as Frank Lippincott
Tish
as Theodore 'Ted' Bowser
1941
Babes on Broadway
as Morton Hammond
1939
King of the Underworld
as Medical Student (uncredited)
1935
Dinky
as Jackie Shaw
A Dog of Flanders
as Pieter Vanderkloot
Life Returns
as Mickey
1934
Wednesday's Child
as Young Boy (uncredited)
Jane Eyre
as John Reed
Little Men
as Ned
1933
Counsellor at Law
as Richard Dwight Jr.
Cavalcade
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)