- Started in the film business as a cinema usher.
- Set up a production company, Copa, with his close friend Tyrone Power in 1956.
- Worked for 40 years for Columbia and Universal studios.
- He first worked in the movie business as an usher at a local theater.[.
- His most noted films include Return of the Seven (1966; with Yul Brynner), Red Sun (1971; with Charles Bronson), and Papillon (1973; with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman).
- Richmond produced films for several studios including Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and in the mid 1940s he moved Columbia Pictures.
- He got into the film industry as an assistant director and providing stories at Monogram Studios. He eventually turned producer.
- Richmond spent the last 30 years of his life in Paris with his wife, Asuko.
- He was an American film producer credited with 66 films between 1940 and 1979.
- In the late 1940s he moved to Universal, where he produced the early starring vehicles for Audie Murphy.
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