Richard Lyford

Richard Lyford
Born(1917-10-07)October 7, 1917
DiedNovember 4, 1985(1985-11-04) (aged 68)
North Hollywood, Los Angeles, U.S.
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active1936-1974

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 worked for 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 Island of Allah, a documentary on the history of the Arab people.[3]

In 1969, Richard Lyford returned to the Persian Gulf to produce Hamad and the Pirates, a 93-minute movie about a young Arab pearl diver.[citation needed]

  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.