Director of "Weekend at Bernie's" dies...throws beach house party in the Hamptons

Ted Kotcheff has passed away at 94. Although his greatest achievement was Weekend at Bernie's he also directed a few other films. For the film buffs:

Fun wth Dick and Jane (1977)

North Dallas Forty (1979)

Rambo: First Blood (1982)

Uncommon Valor (1983)

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He also did a little TV work.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Executive Producer 1999-2012 over 286 episodes

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In 2017, he penned a memoir, Director’s Cut: SVU star Mariska Hargitay wrote the foreword, in which she wrote of Kotcheff that he was “A man whose charisma came from an unfettered appetite for life… Ted speaks the truth, directs the truth, pulls the truth out of all the actors he works with.”

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