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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 · By all logic, Richard Lester deserves consideration as one of the key filmmakers to emerge in the latter half of the 20th century. 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 ...
Apr 19, 2012 · The full story behind Superman II would fill a book, but in short, director Richard Donner shot three-quarters of the film before being fired and replaced with Lester, who’d shot the Musketeers ...
Birthday: Jan 19, 1932. Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. A visually dazzling and witty filmmaker whose hyperkinetic films helped to shape the look and pace of 1960s-era cinema,...
Lester was born January 19, 1932, in Philadelphia, PA. After graduating high school at the precocious age of 15, he studied clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, but his central focus became music and the theater, and after graduating in 1951, he went to work as a stagehand at Philadelphia television station WCAU.
Jul 7, 2014 · Jul 7, 2014. Share. D irector 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).
Jul 3, 2014 · 3 July 2014. By Nathalie Morris. Richard Lester and Paul McCartney on the set of A Hard Day's Night (1964). Director and star play on Ringo’s drums. Lester is himself a talented musician. 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most influential music films ever made, A Hard Day’s Night (1964).
