W. D. Richter

Born 1945 · Film director, producer, screenwriter

Walter Duch Richter is an American screenwriter, film director and film producer. He is best known for adapting Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directing The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and co-writing Big Trouble in Little China.

W. D. Richter, in order

1. 1973 Slither: wrote · directed by Howard Zieff
2. 1975 Peeper: wrote · directed by Peter Hyams
3. 1976 Nickelodeon: wrote · directed by Peter Bogdanovich · critics 14%, audiences 47%
4. 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers: wrote · directed by Philip Kaufman
5. 1979 Dracula: wrote · directed by John Badham
6. 1980 Brubaker: wrote · directed by Bob Rafelson and Stuart Rosenberg
7. 1981 All Night Long: wrote · directed by Jean-Claude Tramont
8. 1982 Hard Feelings: wrote · directed by Daryl Duke
9. 1984 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: directed
10. 1986 Big Trouble in Little China: wrote · directed by John Carpenter
11. 1991 Late for Dinner: directed
12. 1993 Needful Things: wrote · directed by Fraser Clarke Heston · critics 35%, audiences 44%
13. 1996 Home for the Holidays: wrote · directed by Jodie Foster
14. 2005 Stealth: wrote · directed by Rob Cohen