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Richard Lyford

Richard Lyford

Directing
07 Oct 1917
04 Nov 1985

Biography

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 yo...

Also Known As

Richard H. Lyford, Richard Hoover Lyford