Richard Lyford

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

-

Birthday

1917-10-07 (68 years old)

Deathday

1985-11-04

Place of Birth

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Richard Lyford

Biography

His early years he worked with Walt Disney doing animations in the late forties. In 1950, he co-directed and edited The Titan: Story of Michelangelo which won an Academy Award for documentary feature in 1950. In 1951, he moved to Saudi Arabia to produce a documentary on the history of the Arab people. In 1956, this documentary was shown on the national TV and around the world called Island Of Allah.[1] In 1969, Richard Lyford returned to the Persian Gulf to produce a 93 minute movie about a young Arab pearl diver called "Hamad And The Pirates" which came out in 1971. -Wikipedia

Production

1950

Shining Rails

as Director

1956

Island of Allah

as Director

1941

7 Wise Dwarfs

as Director

1971

Hamad and the Pirates

as Cinematography

1971

1937

1937

1936

The Scalpel

as Director

1936

The Scalpel

as Writer

2019

2019

As the Earth Turns

as Screenplay

2019

As the Earth Turns

as Director of Photography

1975

Seems There Was This Moose

as Director of Photography

1965

1931

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