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Richard Schickel and the actress Olympia Dukakis in a conversation in Los Angeles in 2003.
Chris Hatcher/Getty Images; thumbnail, Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images, 2008
Richard Schickel
Died on February 18, 2017 at age 84
Mr. Schickel was so captivated by Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” when he was 5 years old that he grew up to be a noted film critic, Hollywood historian and prolific author and documentarian. He estimated that he had watched 22,590 movies.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.