Richard Lyford

Richard Hoover Lyford (born 7 October 1917; died November 4, 1985, North Hollywood, Los Angeles) was an American filmmaker.

He directed avant-garde films in Seattle, Washington in his early career, including As the Earth Turns. During the 1940s, he found success working with Walt Disney.[1]

In 1950, he co-directed and edited The Titan: Story of Michelangelo which won an Academy Award for documentary feature in 1950 and was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.[2] 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.[3]

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.

References
  1. Rechtshaffen, Michael (October 17, 2019). "Review: Unreleased 1938 silent sci-fi film 'As the Earth Turns' boasts analog ingenuity". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  2. "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
  3. Robert Vitalis (2007). America's kingdom: mythmaking on the Saudi oil frontier. Stanford University Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-8047-5446-0.
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