Richard C. Kahn

{{Short description|American film director (1897–1960)}}

Richard C. Kahn (January 26, 1897 – January 28, 1960) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his B movies of the 1930s and early 1940s. Though white, he often worked with an all-black cast.{{cite book|last=Batiste|first=Stephanie Leigh|title=Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P5BeD5DFoM0C&pg=PT78|year=2011|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-4923-5|page=78}}{{cite book|last=Fetrow|first=Alan G.|title=Sound films, 1927-1939: a United States filmography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VYtZAAAAMAAJ|date=1 August 1992|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-89950-546-6|page=74}}

He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His feature films include Secret Menace (1931), The Third Sex (1934), Two-Gun Man from Harlem (1938), The Bronze Buckaroo (1939), Harlem Rides the Range (1939), Son of Ingagi (1940), Buzzy Rides the Range (1940), Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto (1941) and Guns Don't Argue (1957) (with Bill Karn{{cite book|last=Raymond|first=Marc|title=Hollywood's New Yorker: The Making of Martin Scorsese|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ewk7zzNSLmgC&pg=PA130|date=13 March 2013|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-4573-1|page=130}}). In 1955 he directed an episode of Grand Ole Opry, and in 1958 he directed two episodes of Sky King, "Rodeo Decathlon" and "The Brain and the Brawn".

He produced three Herbert Jeffrey films.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5561516/great-grand-add-george-randol/|title = Great Grand add George Randol|newspaper = The Pittsburgh Courier|date = 21 January 1939|page = 21}}

Kahn died in 1960 in Hollywood, California.