Kotcheff was integral in First Blood, even as the pic almost imploded when Sylvester Stallone decided his Rambo character ...

A movie and TV legend whose six-decade career included leading the first installments of two hit movie franchises in the ...

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While he had a long career in both television and film, he was perhaps best known for helming the Rambo movie First Blood. A statement by his son, Thomas Kotcheff, revealed, “He died of old age, ...

As for "First Blood," it ended up being the start of a successful series of Rambo movies. There were four sequels to the original, but the 1982 classic remains a fan favorite decades later ...

His biggest commercial success arrived in 1982 with ‘First Blood’, the film that introduced Sylvester Stallone as the Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. Though the movie leaned more towards psychological ...

Prolific Canadian-born filmmaker Ted Kotcheff, who directed the films “First Blood,” “Weekend at Bernie’s,” “Wake in Fright,” “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,” “Fun With ...

Given that death was just the beginning of a wild weekend in the Hamptons in the 1989 guilty pleasure flick Weekend at Bernie’s, announcing the death of that film’s director seems somehow ...

“When you make a film, it takes at least a year and a half from conception to scripting, shooting and editing, and all the rest of it. That’s a year and a half out of your life, so I’m very ...

But his most enduring feature came in 1982, teaming with Sylvester Stallone for “First Blood,” a vital, Hobermanian post-Vietnam freakout about a tortured, war-rattled soldier that brings ...