Michael Brunswick Ritchie (November 28, 1938 - April 16, 2001) was an American film director of distinguished and often experimental films who also excelled at comedy. His scored notable successes directing Robert Redford's formative work, and Chevy Chase's comedies.
was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the son of Patricia (née Graney) and Benbow Ferguson Ritchie. His family later moved to Berkeley, California, where his father was a professor of experimental psychology at the University of California at Berkeley[1] and his mother was the art and music librarian for the city.

He attended Berkeley High School before becoming interested in film, and was accepted at Harvard University following high school. He told Redford's biographer, author Michael Feeney Callan, that academic interest in film culture was the basis and drive for his career.

Though regarded as a significant auteur, Michael Ritchie did not achieve the high profile celebrity of more media-friendly contemporaries like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola. However, his films were recognized as "unpretentious, closely observed, finely textured works...there comes a point when, looking back, one sees that their consistency itself - consistent excellence - is telling us something: something about the way that cinema itself is able to move out and look around."
Ritchie died at age 62 of complications from prostate cancer, on April 16, 2001, in New York.
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