As director and cinematographer, Richard Ladkani has gained international recognition for numerous award-winning films. "Sea of Shadows", a National Geographic documentary, executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2019, as well as numerous awards at prestigious festivals around the world. The film illustrates how Mexican drug cartels and the Chinese Mafia, have declared war on the Sea of Cortez, one of the world's most beautiful ecosystems for money and greed, resulting in the possible extinction of the vaquita, the smallest whale on earth. The Netflix Original "The Ivory Game", also executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, was shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2017 and won numerous prizes including the Genesis, the Cinema for Peace Award and the Golden Panda. This investigative thriller-doc, on the illegal trade of ivory and the extinction of elephants, had its world premiers at the prestigious Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals and helped bring an end to the legal ivory trade in China. In early 2015 Richard and his wife Anita Ladkani founded Malaika Pictures. The name is the Swahili word for "Angel" and also the middle name of their first-born daughter. Malaika Pictures produces films that shine a bright spotlight on the most pressing environmental and political issues of our time. Their newest project in development is a feature documentary on the Amazon Rainforest, as well as a narrative feature film based on the bestselling book "City of Thorns", a Romeo & Julia type love story that focuses on the life of refugees in the living hell of Dadaab (Kenya), the largest UN Camp in the world. His most renowned films include "Escape over the Himalayas", "The Devil's Miner", "Jane's Journey" (shortlisted for Academy Award); "Vatican - The Hidden World" and "Gas Monopoly". Richard has photographed more than 50 documentaries, of which he directed or co-directed eleven. He lives near Vienna Austria, with his wife and two daughters. For more information please visit www.richardladkani.com or www.malaikapictures.com.
Richard was brought up in the USA, spending his childhood in Virginia Beach and Washington DC. He moved back to Hampshire in the UK to join the rest of his family and train as an actor. He has both UK and Australian citizenship. He has work alongside some of the most respected British Theatre directors including Sir Peter Hall and Lucy Bailey and continues to work in Film and TV with talents such as Christopher Nolan, Bille August and Rob Letterman. Recently he can be seen in Netflix's The Last Tsars, HBO's Game Of Thrones and the feature film, 55 Steps , alongside Hilary Swank and Jeffrey Tambor.
Richard Lambert is known for Marshall (2017), Sweet Jesus (2006) and Sweet Jesus - The Creators' Cut (2020).
Richard John Lamparter is an American actor currently living in Knoxville, TN. Originally from Cranford, NJ, Richard became interested in acting after retiring from AT&T with 42 years of service. Richard has appeared in movies and many tv shows including A Hard Problem, Apostate, SNAPPED, In Pursuit with John Walsh, Mark of a Killer, Exhumed, Killer Couples, Queen of Meth, American Detective, Vengeance ,Storm of Suspicion, For My Man, Super Heists, Homicide for the Holidays, and Fatal Frontier: Evil in Alaska. Richard also enjoys woodworking, making HOT pepper sauce, gardening, running 5Ks, traveling and investing.
Richard Lampone is the founder of One Last Day Productions, A film production company based in Tribeca. He is a Producer/Director and a trained Meisner actor. He studied the Meisner technique with Terry Knickerbocker at William Esper Studios in New York City. He is passionate about Independent film and helping artists reach their dreams.
Richard Lane was born on May 28, 1899 in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for The Big Wheel (1949), Meet Boston Blackie (1941) and Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949). He died on September 5, 1982 in Newport Beach, California, USA.
Richard Lane Jr. was born and raised in South Boston, Massachusetts. A United States Army Veteran, he ran the 2015 and 2016 Boston Marathons for the Martin Richard Foundation. He earned a supporting role in the film, Stronger, with Jake Gyllenhaal, and directed by David Gordon Green. In his first film, What Doesn't Kill You, directed by Brian Goodman, he shared a scene with Mark Ruffalo and Ethan Hawke.
Richard Lange is known for Rana: The Legend of Shadow Lake (1980) and The Demons of Ludlow (1983).