Richard Warren Welch

Richard's diverse ancestry includes Romanized Celts from the Rheinland, Ice Age mammoth hunters in Germany, mounted Medieval knights in service to the Duke of Cleves, Jewish fruit peddlers, Sergeant on board ships of the Dutch West India Company, coal miners, bricklayers, blacksmiths, school superintendents, Vaudeville singers, railroad workers, the last person to be executed in England by being burned at the stake, and a myriad of other professions. His parents hoped for a girl when he was born, but when he disappointed them by being a boy they didn't have a name for him. What to do? They named him after the doctor who delivered him, that's what. Richard's life since then has followed a by-the-seat-of-his-pants existence. His eclectic résumé includes jobs as an airborne spy against the Soviet Union, GTW Railroad switch-man, car checker and teletype operator, teacher on the high school and college levels in the United States, PRC, and the Russian Federation, assistant on several motion pictures since 1986, assembly line worker building Buicks, page in a state library, song writer, graduate teaching assistant, writer of history-related books and articles, history museum director and curator, president of a tourist railroad, television salesman, and car rental agent. He loves writing, history, geography, collecting unique types of antiques, including the world's largest collection of Sun Records, daguerreotypes, CDVs and ambrotypes, Lionel trains, documents, maps, atlases, and genealogy. Founded and became President of Richard Welch Collections, LLC, an AZ Corporation (since 2012), formerly a NM corporation, 2005-12. Guest teacher and curator at schools and museums in China, Russia and Poland. Adjunct college instructor in New Mexico and Arizona. His ancestors and relatives, as well as his own life experiences, give him hundreds of script ideas. He moved to working on movies in the 1980s and has assisted on several award winning productions. He spent a lifetime writing books, magazine and newspaper articles and then in the new century he challenged himself to write movie and TV scripts with remarkable results. His efforts have met with outstanding reviews and one of his screenplays, "Baby Harry's Hollywood", is currently in pre-production.