When No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) played at Manhattan's
Film Forum on September 3, 2009, Nielson and the movie's U.S.
distributor Richard Gordon did a lively Q&A before the start of
the movie.
Richard Neilson died of natural causes on June 14, 2020 in Southbury, CT. He is survived by his wife of close to sixty years and his brother.