WAS FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ON 'DRESSED TO KILL', 'SUPERMAN'
Michael Rauch, who worked as first assistant director on Dressed To Kill, passed away July 2 following a long battle with pancreatic cancer, according to The Hollywood Reporter's Mike Barnes. Rauch was 69.Prior to Dressed To Kill, Rauch worked as assistant director on Richard Donner's Superman (which featured Margot Kidder), Robert Markowitz' Voices (which featured Amy Irving), Jonathan Demme's Hitchcockian thriller Last Embrace, Martin Brest's Going In Style, and Marshall Brickman's Simon, the latter of which included William Finley in the cast.
After Dressed To Kill, Rauch went on to a successful career as a film and television producer, and was an executive at Showtime for 15 years, according to Barnes. "Born in Troy, N.Y.," Barnes adds, "Rauch graduated from New York University with a major in art and landed a spot in the DGA trainee program, where he learned the business on The French Connection (1971) and The Godfather (1972).