Richard Warren Schickel (February 10, 1933 – February 18, 2017) was an American film historian, journalist, author, documentarian, and film and literary critic. He was a film critic for Time Life Los Angeles Times Book ReviewTruthdig .
He was interviewed in For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism Frank E. Woods , Robert E. Sherwood , and Otis Ferguson , and tells of how, in the 1960s, he, Pauline Kael , and Andrew Sarris , rejected the moralizing opposition of the older Bosley Crowther of The New York Times Bonnie and Clyde Peanuts
Schickel was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Helen (née Hendricks) and Edward John Schickel.
Schickel died on February 18, 2017 in Los Angeles after suffering multiple strokes eight days after his 84th birthday.
Schickel received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964. He has also lectured at Yale University and University of Southern California 's School of Film and Television.
The World of Carnegie Hall (1960)The Stars (1962)The Gentle Knight (1964)Movies: The history of an art and an institution (1964)The World of Goya , 1746–1828 (1968)The Disney Version : The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney The Museum (1970)Second Sight: Notes on Some Movies 1965–1970 (1972)His Picture In The Papers: A Speculation on Celebrity in America Based on the Life of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (1974)Harold Lloyd : The Shape of LaughterThe World of Tennis (1975)Douglas Fairbanks: The First Celebrity (1976)Another I, Another You: A Novel (1978)Singled Out: A civilized guide to sex and sensibility for the suddenly single man—or woman (1981)Cary Grant : A CelebrationD.W. Griffith: An American Life (1984); British Film Institute Book Prize, 1985Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity (1985) (aka Common Fame: The Culture of Celebrity ); revised 2000Lena by Lena Horne and Richard SchickelJames Cagney : A CelebrationGary Cooper Striking Poses: Photographs from the Kobal Collection (1987)Carnegie Hall: The First One Hundred Years by Richard Schickel and Michael Walsh (1987)Schickel on Film: Encounters—Critical and Personal—With Movie Immortals (1989)Brando : A Life in Our TimesDouble Indemnity (BFI Film Classics) (1992)Clint Eastwood : A Biography (1996)Hollywood at Home: A Family Album 1950–1965 (1998)Matinee Idylls: Reflections on the Movies (1999)Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memory and World War II (2003)Woody Allen : A Life in FilmElia Kazan : A BiographyBogie: A Celebration of the Life and Films of Humphrey Bogart (2006) ISBN 0-312-36629-9The Essential Chaplin : Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian (2006) (editor)Conversations with Scorsese (2011)Steven Spielberg : A RetrospectiveKeepers: The Greatest Films - and Personal Favorites - of a Moviegoing Lifetime (2015)The Harryhausen Chronicles (1998, writer and director), PBS The Men Who Made the Movies (1973), eight-part series, PBS, Emmy nominatedLife Goes to the Movies (1976), NBC , Emmy nominatedFunny Business (1977), CBS The Making of Star Wars The Horror Show (1978), CBSInto the Morning: Willa Cather 's America (1978), PBSSP FX: The Empire Strikes Back James Cagney : That Yankee Doodle DandyFrom Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga Minnelli on Minnelli (1987), PBS, Emmy nominatedCary Grant : A CelebrationGary Cooper : American Life, American LegendMyrna Loy : So Nice to Come Home ToBarbara Stanwyck : Fire and DesireEastwood & Co: Making Unforgiven (1992), ABCHollywood on Hollywood (1993), AMCElia Kazan : A Director's JourneyShooting War: World War II Combat Cameramen (2000), ABC, Emmy nominatedYou Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008), three-part series, PBSCharlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin The Big Red One The Big Trail City for Conquest Dirty Harry La Dolce Vita Double Indemnity East of Eden El Dorado Todd McCarthy Gentleman's Agreement , with actresses Celeste Holm and June Havoc Gilda The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Hangover Square The Hustler , with actor Paul Newman , film historian Jeff Young, and other participantsLeave Her to Heaven Darryl Hickman The Mark of Zorro On the Waterfront Once Upon a Time in America Pin Up Girl The Purple Heart Rebecca Rio Bravo John Carpenter Ryan's Daughter , with director David Lean 's wife Lady Sandra Lean, actress Sarah Miles , and other participantsSide Street Somebody Up There Likes Me Robert Wise , actors Paul Newman and Robert Loggia , and filmmaker Martin Scorsese Strangers on a Train Peter Bogdanovich , Psycho Joseph Stefano , Patricia Highsmith biographer Andrew Wilson, and other participantsSudden Impact Titanic Unforgiven Whirlpool 
