Richard Lyford

Personal Info

Known For Director

Birthday 1917-10-07

Deathday 1985-11-04 (68 years old)

Also Known As Richard H. Lyford, Richard Hoover Lyford

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

Known For

Director

2019
As the Earth Turns

as Director

1971
1965
1956
Island of Allah

as Director

1950
Shining Rails

as Director

1950
1941
7 Wise Dwarfs

as Director

1937
Ritual of the Dead

as Director

1936
The Scalpel

as Director

Writer

2019
As the Earth Turns

as Screenplay

1937
1936
The Scalpel

as Writer

Camera

2019
As the Earth Turns

as Director of Photography

1975
Seems There Was This Moose

as Director of Photography

Crew

1971
Hamad and the Pirates

as Cinematography