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Richard Lester Liebman (born January 19, 1932) is a retired American film director based in the United Kingdom, famous for his comedic and campy style of shooting movies and for his work in both US and UK cinema. He is best known for directing the Beatles' films A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help!
Richard Lester was one of the most influential directors of the 1960s, and continued his career into the 1970s and early '80s. He is best remembered for the two films he helmed starring The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help!
Richard Lester was one of the most influential directors of the 1960s, and continued his career into the 1970s and early '80s. He is best remembered for the two films he helmed starring The Beatles : A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help!
Apr 22, 2024 · Richard Lester, American filmmaker who successfully transferred the fast-cut stream-of-consciousness style of television commercials to the big screen. He was best known as the director of the Beatles movies A Hard Day’s Night and Help! His other movies included The Three Musketeers and Superman II.
Aug 5, 2015 · Over a career spanning 22 feature films, he has had a number of critical and commercial successes (including one that won the top prize at Cannes), his unique directorial style—shifting effortlessly from classical elegance to formally radical depending on the needs of the material—has influenced any number of filmmakers over the years (one nota...
May 22, 2003 · January 19, 1932, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Looking back on the career of Richard Lester is a little like receiving the rarest of glimpses of an all but unimaginable period in Hollywood history. Lester is a director who functioned fully within the mainstream of studio filmmaking.
Apr 19, 2012 · Why it’s daunting: An American expatriate who grew up in Philadelphia at the same time Ernie Kovacs was dismantling the conventions of television on the local airwaves, Richard Lester approached...
Jan 28, 2016 · Three vintage Lester films — his Cannes laureate, “The Knack … and How to Get It” (1965); “How I Won the War” (1967); and “The Bed Sitting Room” (1969) — are now available on Blu ...
Jul 7, 2014 · Director Richard Lester is best remembered for his delightfully mod films of the sixties, including the Beatles classics A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and Help! (1965) as well as The Knack . . . and How to Get It (1965) and Petulia (1968).
Richard Lester (born 19 January 1932) is an American-born British-based film director notable for his work with The Beatles in the 1960s and his work on the Superman film series in the 1980s.
