Richard Lyford
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
- Directing
- Born
- 1917-10-07
- Died
- 1985-11-04
Known for
- 7 Wise Dwarfs (1941) — Director
- The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950) — Director
- War Department Report (1943) — Editor
- As the Earth Turns (1938) — Pax
- Hamad and the Pirates (1971) — Cinematography
- Island of Allah (1956) — Director
- Ritual of the Dead (1937)
- The Scalpel (1936)
- Shining Rails (1950) — Director
- Miyah: A Story of Water (1950) — Director
- Nosey, the Sweetest Skunk in the West (1972) — Director
- Ringo, the Refugee Raccoon (1974) — Director
- Seems There Was This Moose (1975) — Director of Photography
- An Otter in the Family (1965) — Director
- The Phantom of Terror (1931) — Director