Richard Dembo (24 May 1948 – 11 November 2004) was a French director and screenwriter.
Dembo achieved worldwide recognition with his first film: La diagonale du fou, which received an Oscar in 1984 for best foreign film,[1] as well as other numerous awards (César, Prix Louis Delluc).
Michel Piccoli starred in the film as a Jewish citizen of the USSR.
In 1993, Dembo directed L'instinct de l'ange with Hélène Vincent, Jean-Louis Trintignant, François Cluzet und Lambert Wilson.
On 11 November 2004, Dembo unexpectedly died in Paris under the symptoms of an intestinal obstruction.