Died Richard Glatzer, co-director of “Still Alice” – TN.com.ar

Richard Glatzer, who co-directed the award-winning film “Still Alice” (Still Alice) and her husband Wash Westmorland, died at age 63, victim of ALS (ELA), a degenerative disease.

The diretor died Tuesday, less than three weeks after Julianne Moore won the Oscar for Best Actress for her starring role in “Still Alice”, in which she played a linguistics professor was suffering from Alzheimer’s.

Glatzer co-wrote the screenplay for the film with her husband but could not attend the Oscars because, just two days before the ceremony was hospitalized for suffering severe respiratory problems .

Both directors met in 1995 and married in 2013.

In his films, is find titles like “The Fluffer” (2001), “Quinceañera” (2006) and “The Last Robin Hood” (2013). Glatzer was also producer of the “reality” of the model Tyra Banks’ America’s Next Top Model “.