Film-maker who, alongside husband, directed Oscar-winning performance from Julianne Moore as professor with Alzheimer’s, dies of complications from ALS
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Richard Glatzer, the film-maker who directed Oscar-winning movie Still Alice using only an iPad app to communicate, has died. Glatzer, 63, had been diagnosed with ALS – the neurological condition often referred to as Lou Gehrig’s Disease – in 2011 but continued to work alongside husband and long-time collaborator West Westmoreland, even when he was unable to communicate other than through one finger.
When Richard was diagnosed with ALS, Wash asked him what he wanted to do. Did he want to travel? Did he want to see the world? And he said that he wanted to make movies and that’s what he did.
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