Richard Rush, the Academy Award-nominated writer and director of the 1980 Peter O’Toole film “The Stunt Man,” died in his Los Angeles home Thursday of natural causes. He was 91.
“He will be remembered for a string of landmark films in the 1960s and ’70s, culminating with his 1980 multi-Oscar-nominated classic, ‘The Stunt Man,’ which is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time,” his wife, Claude said in a statement.
“To those who were privileged to know and love him, he will be even more warmly remembered, and missed, for his integrity, his loyalty, his endless generosity of spirit and his boundless support and mentorship of other filmmakers, writers or indeed anyone who ever dared to, in the words of his ‘Stunt Man’ hero Eli Cross, ’tilt at a windmill.’”