Biography
Walter Duch Richter (born 7 December 1945) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia articleW. D. Richter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
What Sad Music: W.D. Richter and the Writing of Dracula
2019
as Self
An interview with writer W.D. Richter
Stealth
2005
Writer
Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initi...
The Revamping of Dracula
2004
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Dracula" (1979).
Buckaroo Banzai Declassified
2002
as Self
A documentary found on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension Special Edition DVD.
Home for the Holidays
1995
Screenplay
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Cl...
Needful Things
1993
Screenplay
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
Late for Dinner
1991
Director, Producer
Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police ar...
Big Trouble in Little China
1986
Adaptation
Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the so...
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984
Director, Producer
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Hard Feelings
1982
Screenplay
It's 1963 and teenage Barnie has problems. School bullies are after him, his family is dysfunctional and his girl Leslie screws around. On the run fro...
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
1981
Additional Writing
A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a ...
All Night Long
1981
Writer
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that...
Brubaker
1980
Screenplay, Story
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Dracula
1979
Screenplay
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seek...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978
Screenplay
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers...
Nickelodeon
1976
Writer
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up wi...
Peeper
1975
Writer
A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune.
Slither
1974
Writer
A well-meaning but stupid ex-convict is drawn into a get-rich scheme that could result in his imprisonment.
Slither
1973
Writer, Associate Producer
While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being ...