Richard T. Heffron

passed away on Monday, August 27, 2007 at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, WA. He was 76 years of age. He was born on October 6, 1930.He was resident of Bainbridge Island for the past five years, where he could be seen beachcombing, picking blackberries, and reading the NY Times. Richard started out as a documentary filmmaker for Guggenheim Productions, then moved to San Francisco, where he formed the production company, Medion, Inc., with Bert Decker and Claude Jarman. In 1972, he directed one of the first rockumentaries, Fillmore. He went on to direct feature films including Futureworld, I the Jury, and La Révolution Française. His television movies include I Will Fight No More Forever, A Rumor of War, The Morning After, and the pilot episode of The Rockford Files. Among his mini-series credits are V: The Final Battle, Napoleon and Josephine, The Mystic Warrior, and North and South.He is survived his wife of 18 years, Lynn Gardner Heffron, his daughters Elizabeth (Matt Smith) of Bainbridge Island, Cindy Parkanyi (George) of Ottawa, Canada, his son Eric (Cynthia) of Los Angeles, California, and step-daughter Kelly Kowalski of Sante Fe, New Mexico. He leaves behind ten grandchildren, Olivia, Benedek, Rebecca, Thomas, Sean, Morgan, Nicholas, Marley, Oliver, and Maddie. He is also survived by his first wife, Jane Vacho, and her daughter, Maryanne Angliongto.There will be a celebration of his life at his home-away-from-home, the Streamliner Diner on Bainbridge Island, on Saturday, September 1, 2007 from 4:00 - 6:00 PM.Arrangements by Cook Family Funeral Home.