Cast & creator
Richard Schickel
Best known for The Dick Cavett Show, American Experience, Secret Lives
Also known as: Richard Warren Schickel
Movies
135
film credits
Series
13
television credits
Career
59
1968–2024 · acting roles
Credit score
6.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (148)
Showing 148 of 148 credits
Series
★ 6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Series
★ 6.5
American Experience
Self
1988S
Series
Secret Lives
1995
Series
★ 8.4
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Executive Producer
1998Series
★ 8.4
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Producer
1998Series
★ 8.4
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Writer
1998Series
★ 8.4
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Director
1998
Movie
★ 7.4
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
Self
2001
Series
★ 7.7
Backstory
Self - film critic
2000
Movie
★ 6.9
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Self
2011
Series
The Men Who Made the Movies
Producer
1973Series
The Men Who Made the Movies
Director
1973Series
The Men Who Made the Movies
Writer
1973Series
The Men Who Made the Movies
Creator
1973
Movie
★ 3.2
Cannes: All Access
Director
2007
Movie
★ 5.5
Ask the Dust
H. L. Mencken (voice)
2006
Movie
★ 8.2
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
Writer
1980Movie
★ 8.2
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
Producer
1980
Movie
★ 7.0
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Writer
1973Movie
★ 7.0
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Director
1973Movie
★ 7.0
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Producer
1973
Movie
★ 6.1
BRATS
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
Movie
★ 6.3
Frank Capra's American Dream
Self
1997
Movie
★ 6.5
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Director
1991Movie
★ 6.5
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Writer
1991Movie
★ 6.5
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Producer
1991
Movie
★ 6.1
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Director
2013Movie
★ 6.1
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Producer
2013
Movie
★ 5.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Director
2002Movie
★ 5.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Writer
2002Movie
★ 5.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Producer
2002
Movie
★ 7.1
The Making of Star Wars
Writer
1977
Movie
★ 7.7
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Self - Author and Time Film Critic
2005
Movie
★ 4.5
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
Self
2008
Movie
★ 7.0
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Director
2003Movie
★ 7.0
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Writer
2003
Movie
★ 7.0
The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
Self
2008
Movie
★ 6.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Director
1973Movie
★ 6.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Writer
1973Movie
★ 6.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Producer
1973
Movie
★ 8.5
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Director
2008Movie
★ 8.5
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Writer
2008
Movie
★ 7.4
From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga
Writer
1983Movie
★ 7.4
From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga
Producer
1983
Movie
★ 8.5
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Writer
1990Movie
★ 8.5
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Director
1990Movie
★ 8.5
Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Producer
1990
Movie
★ 7.3
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
Self
2008
Movie
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
Self
2006
Movie
★ 7.2
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self - 'Time' Critic and Clint Eastwood Biographer
2000
Movie
★ 3.0
Desire and Censorship
Self
2006
Movie
★ 5.8
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Self
2009
Movie
★ 7.4
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Director
2002
Movie
The Fred Astaire Songbook
Self
1991
Series
★ 8.0
Walt Disney
Self
2015
Movie
★ 6.0
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
Self
1998
Movie
★ 7.0
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Self
2010
Movie
★ 8.4
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
Supervising Technical Director
2005
Movie
★ 6.8
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us
Director
2005Movie
★ 6.8
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us
Writer
2005Movie
★ 6.8
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us
Producer
2005
Movie
★ 8.5
Fog City Mavericks
Self
2007
Movie
Behind The Gates: Cary Grant And Grace Kelly
Self
2009
Movie
★ 7.0
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Self - Film Historian
1997
Movie
★ 8.5
Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock
Self
2004
Movie
★ 6.0
The Craft of Dirty Harry
Self
2008
Movie
★ 6.5
A Streetcar on Broadway
Self
2006
Movie
★ 5.8
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
Self
2008
Movie
★ 6.4
Hitchcock and Dial M
Self
2004
Movie
★ 7.0
Contender: Mastering the Method
Self
2001
Movie
★ 7.0
On Cukor
Self
2000J
Movie
★ 10.0
James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy
Screenplay
1981J
Movie
★ 10.0
James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy
Producer
1981J
Movie
★ 10.0
James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy
Director
1981
Movie
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
Self
2010
Movie
★ 7.3
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
Self
2004
Movie
★ 7.0
The Hustler: The Inside Story
Himself
2002
Movie
★ 7.0
Play It Again: A Look Back at 'Play Misty for Me'
Self
2001
Movie
★ 7.5
Eastwood... A Star
Director
2002
Movie
★ 3.4
The Horror Show
Director
1979Movie
★ 3.4
The Horror Show
Writer
1979
Movie
★ 6.1
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
Director
1995Movie
★ 6.1
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
Writer
1995
Movie
★ 7.3
Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths
Self
2004
Movie
★ 6.1
Woody Allen: A Life in Film
Director
2002Movie
★ 6.1
Woody Allen: A Life in Film
Producer
2002Movie
★ 6.1
Woody Allen: A Life in Film
Writer
2002
Movie
Shadows of Suspense
Self
2006
Movie
★ 7.0
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
Self
2004
Movie
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Director
1992
Movie
★ 7.0
The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'
Executive Producer
2005Movie
★ 7.0
The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'
Director
2005
Movie
★ 7.3
Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'
Self
2004Movie
★ 7.3
The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh
Director
1973
Movie
★ 8.0
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time
Self
2002
Movie
★ 1.0
The Beguiled, Misty, Don & Clint
Self
2001
Movie
★ 6.7
Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond
Writer
1987
Movie
★ 8.5
Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic
Self
2004
Movie
★ 6.5
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Director
1973Movie
★ 6.5
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Writer
1973
Movie
★ 7.0
The Harryhausen Chronicles
Director
1997Movie
★ 7.0
The Harryhausen Chronicles
Writer
1997
Movie
★ 6.5
A Streetcar in Hollywood
Self
2006
Movie
The Making of 'Rebecca'
Self
2008B
Movie
Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood
Self
2008
Movie
D.W. Griffith: An American Genius
Self
1975Movie
D.W. Griffith: An American Genius
Writer
1975
Movie
The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'
2008
Movie
★ 6.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
Director
1973Movie
★ 6.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
1973
Movie
★ 6.0
In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic
Self
2008
Movie
★ 9.0
Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend
Director
1989
Movie
The Making of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2019W
Movie
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
2007T
Movie
★ 6.4
The Men Who Made the Movies: George Cukor
Director
1973
Movie
★ 6.4
Shooting War
Director
2000Movie
★ 6.4
Shooting War
Screenplay
2000Movie
★ 6.4
Shooting War
Producer
2000
Movie
The Making of Ryan's Daughter
Self
2006
Movie
★ 7.6
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends
Writer
1999
Movie
★ 7.8
Scorsese on Scorsese
Director
2004Movie
★ 7.8
Scorsese on Scorsese
Writer
2004
Movie
Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film
Director
2008Movie
Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film
Writer
2008Movie
Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film
Producer
2008M
Movie
★ 5.0
Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza Remembers Vincente
Writer
1987M
Movie
★ 5.0
Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza Remembers Vincente
Director
1987A
Movie
A Man Named Brando
Self
2006C
Movie
Crime Wave: The City Is Dark
Self
2007T
Movie
★ 7.0
The Men who Made the Movies: Frank Capra
Director
1973
Movie
Hollywood on Hollywood
Director
1993Movie
Hollywood on Hollywood
Writer
1993Movie
Hollywood on Hollywood
Producer
1993S
Movie
Side Street: Where Temptation Lurks
Self
2007
Movie
Hawks on Hawks
Self (archive footage)
2017
Movie
★ 7.6
Eastwood on Eastwood
Director
1997Movie
★ 7.6
Eastwood on Eastwood
Writer
1997Movie
★ 7.6
Eastwood on Eastwood
Producer
1997
Movie
★ 7.0
Leone's West
Self
2004
Movie
★ 6.0
The Eastwood Factor
Writer
2010Movie
★ 6.0
The Eastwood Factor
Director
2010
Movie
★ 7.5
Spielberg on Spielberg
Producer
2007Movie
★ 7.5
Spielberg on Spielberg
Director
2007Movie
★ 7.5
Spielberg on Spielberg
Writer
2007M
Movie
Mystery Street: Murder at Harvard
2007
Movie
★ 8.5
The Men who Made the Movies: William A. Wellman
Director
1973I
Movie
Illegal: Marked for Life
Self
2007E
Movie
★ 6.0
East of Eden: Art in Search of Life
Self
2005