Richard Lester (1975)

Profile of film director Richard Lester, who speaks of his career, from early work in commercials to the experimental "Running, Jumping, Standing Still Film" with Peter Sellers and The Goon Show cast, through features: the Beatles' film "A Hard Day's Night", "The Knack and How to Get It", "How I Won the War", "The Bed Sitting Room", "The Three Musketeers", "The Four Musketeers." Clips from all these works. Lester talks of "the benevolent dictatorship of being a director", his commitment to the subject of his films, his anti-war message, his desire to widen the understanding of the audience.

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Lester, Richard Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Gil Parrondo, desde mi ventana

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Beatles in Help!

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Superman II

  2006, role: director
• Play in Full Screen You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Youthquake '65: The London Pop Explosion

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Cineastes en acció

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and Dr. Strangelove

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 100 Greatest Films

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Y usted... ¿De qué se ríe?

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970)

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Legends

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Unknown Peter Sellers

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Richard Lester!

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Spike

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'

  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director
• Play in Full Screen Hollywood U.K.

  1993, role: actor , character name: Presenter
• Play in Full Screen Get Back

  1991, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Paul McCartney

  1989, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Return of the Musketeers

  1989, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Spike

  1986, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Finders Keepers

  1984, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Superman III

  1983, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Making of 'Superman III'

  1983, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director
• Play in Full Screen The Compleat Beatles

  1982, role: actor , character name: Himself - Directs 'A Hard Day's Night'
• Play in Full Screen The Making of 'Superman II'

  1982, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Superman II

  1980, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

  1979, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Cuba

  1979, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Superman

  1978, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Robin and Marian

  1976, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Ritz

  1976, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Richard Lester

  1975, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen La route

  1975, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Royal Flash

  1975, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Four Musketeers

  1974, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Juggernaut

  1974, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Three Musketeers

  1973, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Bed Sitting Room

  1969, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Bed Sitting Room

  1969, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Petulia

  1968, role: director
• Play in Full Screen How I Won the War

  1967, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen How I Won the War

  1967, role: director
• Play in Full Screen A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

  1966, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Knack ...and How to Get It

  1965, role: actor , character name: Balding Man Passed by Bed in Street
• Play in Full Screen Help!

  1965, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Knack ...and How to Get It

  1965, role: director
• Play in Full Screen A Hard Day's Night

  1964, role: director
• Play in Full Screen A Hard Day's Night

  1964, role: actor , character name: Man in Back of the Stage
• Play in Full Screen The Mouse on the Moon

  1963, role: director

Lester, Richard Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Our Forever Friends

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Hollywood & Beyond

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Astro Zombies: M4 - Invaders from Cyberspace

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Corpse Grinders 3

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Corpse Grinders 3

  2012, role: actor , character name: Gualtieri Bodyguard
• Play in Full Screen The Hit

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Astro Zombies: M4 - Invaders from Cyberspace

  2012, role: actor , character name: German Security VIP
• Play in Full Screen The Weatherwax Legacy

  2011, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Astro Zombies: M3 - Cloned

  2010, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Astro Zombies: M3 - Cloned

  2010, role: actor , character name: Astro-Zombie
• Play in Full Screen A Night with Johnny Duncan

  2010, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo

  2009, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo

  2009, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Henry Blackhart Is Dead!

  2008, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Deliver Us from Evil

  2008, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Bogart & Friends

  2008, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Deliver Us from Evil

  2008, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Fuzzy Little People

  2007, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Cleansing

  2007, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Fuzzy Little People

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Eyewitness to History

  2006, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Eyewitness to History

  2006, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Courtney

  2005, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Courtney

  2005, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Making of 'Silverado'

  1999, role: actor , character name: Saloon Patron
• Play in Full Screen Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach

  1988, role: actor , character name: Graduation Ceremony VIP
• Play in Full Screen White of the Eye

  1987, role: actor , character name: Tucson Detective
• Play in Full Screen American Anthem

  1986, role: actor , character name: Cowboy on bus
• Play in Full Screen Cobra Mission

  1986, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Silverado

  1985, role: actor , character name: Saloon patron

Lester, Richard A. Filmography

• Play in Full Screen I Filmed Your Death

  2013, role: actor , character name: Lost Soul
• Play in Full Screen Who's the Dude?

  2010, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen Night of the Snakehead Fish

  2003, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Night of the Snakehead Fish

  2003, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Night of the Snakehead Fish

  2003, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Night of the Snakehead Fish

  2003, role: editor

Famous quotes by Richard Lester:

"I'm not dogmatic; the claims may not ultimately be wrong. But on the time scale that's going to matter, it's very difficult to come close to achieving the objectives that have been set."

"Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film."

"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"

"At one point I was doing a live television Western five half hours a week with horses and stunt men and it was a nightmare. The reason that this is apposite is that it accustomed me a) to work quickly b) to work with many cameras and c) to be hysterical. And I've carried that with me in my life and work."

"When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday."

"Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it."

"I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day."

"The title came rather early in one of Ringo's more tired and emotional moments."

Richard Lester