W.D. Richter: W.D. Richter. Writer: Invasion of the Body Snatchers. W.D. Richter was born on 7 December 1945 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Stealth (2005) and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984).