Richard Gottlieb; ‘People’s Court’ Director

Richard Gottlieb, a longtime television director whose work on “The People’s Court” won an Emmy nomination last year, died Saturday in Atlanta of a heart attack.

He was 67 and in Atlanta taping “The People’s Court,” which he had directed for the last eight years.

A spokesman for Ralph Edwards Productions, producer of “The People’s Court,” a daytime favorite, said Gottlieb had been associated with Edwards for 40 years as producer, director and writer.

His credits include dozens of episodes of “This Is Your Life,” “$100,000 Name That Tune,” “Truth or Consequences” and “Who in the World.”

Gottlieb was credited with finding the winning city in the contest that renamed the New Mexico community of Hot Springs as Truth or Consequences, a name it carries to this day.