Richard Rush
He also helmed three films featuring a young Jack Nicholson as well as one of the first buddy-cop movies, 'Freebie and the Bean.'
Richard Rush, the writer, director and producer who earned two Oscar nominations for his work on the deliciously dark Peter O'Toole comedy
The Stunt Man, has died. He was 91.
Rush died Thursday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, his wife, Claude, told
The Hollywood Reporter. He demonstrated an incredible "will to live" and survived 18 years with a heart transplant, she noted.
Early in his career, Rush directed the youth-targeted flicks
Hells Angels on Wheels (1967) and