# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-schickel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:33:44.664Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-schickel"
name: "Richard Schickel"
slug: "richard-schickel"
description: "Richard Warren Schickel was an American film historian, journalist, author, documentarian, and film and literary critic. He was a film critic for Time from 1965–2010, and also wrote for Life and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. His last writings about film were for Truthdig."
tagline: "American film scholar (1933–2017)"
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category:
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birthDate: "1933-02-10"
deathDate: "2017-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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    url:       "http://www.richardschickel.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump