Director of sci-fi classic dies

Published March 27, 2006

LOS ANGELES, March 26: Richard Fleischer, director of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” and other science fiction classics, has died, local media reported on Sunday. Mr Fleischer died on Saturday of natural causes at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, outside Los Angeles, at 89, The Los Angeles Times reported.

He was the New York-born son of Max Fleischer, a pioneer of short animated works, that rivaled the Walt Disney studios in the early 20th century.—AFP

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