Born in Los Angeles in 1943, Richard Pearce was a cinematographer on documentaries such as Hearts and Minds and on Harlan County, USA, before moving into fiction film. Heartland (1979), a spare, realistic account of a widow who takes work as a housekeeper for a Wyoming rancher in 1910, based on the diaries of a real homesteader, won the Golden Bear in Berlin in 1981. He then directed Country (1984), about a family farm threatened with foreclosure, and The Long Walk Home (1990).
Filmography
- Heartland (1979)
- Country (1984)
- The Long Walk Home (1990)