Set up a production company, Copa, with his close friend Tyrone Power in 1956.
Worked for 40 years for Columbia and Universal studios.
He first worked in the movie business as an usher at a local theater.[.
His most noted films include Return of the Seven (1966; with Yul Brynner), Red Sun (1971; with Charles Bronson), and Papillon (1973; with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman).
Richmond produced films for several studios including Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and in the mid 1940s he moved Columbia Pictures.
He got into the film industry as an assistant director and providing stories at Monogram Studios. He eventually turned producer.
Richmond spent the last 30 years of his life in Paris with his wife, Asuko.
He was an American film producer credited with 66 films between 1940 and 1979.
In the late 1940s he moved to Universal, where he produced the early starring vehicles for Audie Murphy.