Richard Leroy
Richard was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Raised in a suburb of St. Louis, nearby St. Charles, Richard attended Francis Howell High School followed by four years studying at the University of Missouri-Columbia with a major in pre-veterinary medicine and animal sciences. In 2000, Richard moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. He spent the first several years acting in short films, performing in theater and writing screenplays. In 2014, Richard directed for the first time; a film in which he also wrote and starred.
Richard Lester
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! (1965), the frenetic cutting style of which was seen by many as the predecessor of the music video a generation later. Lester had made his name with the Oscar-nominated short subject The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959) that he made with "The Goon Show" veterans Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. He then directed Sellers in The Mouse on the Moon (1963), which was produced by Walter Shenson. The Goons were a favorite of The Beatles, and when Shenson got the rights to make a movie with The Beatles, Lester seemed to be the ideal director for the project. That project, "A Hard Day's Night", was not only a huge box-office hit but a major critical success as well. "Village Voice" movie critic Andrew Sarris, the American promoter of the "auteur theory" in America, described "A Hard Day's Night" as "the Citizen Kane (1941) of juke box musicals." Lester had arrived, and his next film, the Swinging Sixties yarn The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965), won the Palme d'Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. He also directed the wildly satirical How I Won the War (1967), which came a year after the huge success of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), his adaptation of the smash Broadway play, which relied on the Keatonesque slapstick Lester had used so well in The Beatles films ("Forum" even featured Lester's hero Buster Keaton in a small but highly amusing role). Aside from "A Hard Day's Night", the success of which relies as much on The Beatles themselves as auteurs (Lester claims that the script by Alun Owen was largely jettisoned during filming, and its scripted "quips" were replaced by the real things from The Beatles themselves), Lester's true '60s masterpiece is Petulia (1968) (1968). A corrosive look at the American upper-middle-class and the fragmentation of American society, "Petulia" is one of the great, if unheralded, American films. Propelled by the luminous presence of Julie Christie and the powerhouse performance of George C. Scott, "Petulia" was a success at the box office, although some critics were upset over the blackness of the comedy. It was to prove to be his last great film, as he stumbled soon after it was released. The Bed Sitting Room (1969), a Samuel Beckett-influenced satire based on a play (and script) by Spike Milligan co-starring Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke--from the smash revue "Beyond the Fringe"--was a resounding flop at the box office and among critics, and Lester found himself unemployable. However, The Three Musketeers (1973), which he shot simultaneously with The Four Musketeers (1974) for producer Ilya Salkind, resurrected his career. When the Salkinds (Ilya and his father Alexander Salkind) were in the midst of filming Superman (1978) simultaneously with its sequel, Lester was hired as a supervising producer, then took over the filming of the sequel, Superman II (1980), when original director Richard Donner was fired. The sequel was a financial and critical success (as much as comic book films were in the early 1980s), and he was hired to direct the far-less successful Superman III (1983). At the end of the 1980s, Lester returned to the storyline that had revitalized his career back in the early 1970s, filming a second sequel to "The Three Musketeers." However, after his close friend, actor Roy Kinnear died during the shooting of The Return of the Musketeers (1989), Lester seemed to lose heart with the movie-making business. He has not directed another film.
Richard Lett
Richard Lett is an actor, known for Sicilian Vampire (2015) and No Deposit (2015).
Richard Lett
Hitting every microphone in the country doing stand-up (and four CDs in the vault), acting with Jessica Alba and regularly seen on the hit TV series "Supernatural" Richard Lett is in his third decade as a headline stand-up comedian , working with such luminaries as Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Robin Williams, Tommy Chong, Janeane Garofalo and Zach Galifianakis. Offstage he is known for his writing, directing and producing almost thirty of his own plays, being a single dad, battling cancer, alcoholism and drug addiction. He toured nationally his hit solo show "Sober But Never Clean" performing it sixty times in comedy clubs, theatre festivals, treatment centers and recovery conventions to rave reviews and standing ovations. His Ontario Arts Council finance CD of the same name is a popular item on SoundCloud. His new solo show about his journey with testicular cancer, entitled "One Nut Only" premieres in Vancouver May 3, 2018. The accompanying CD (also funded by the Ontario Arts Council) will be launched then. His latest stand-up CD "Living Clean and Talking Dirty" is available online (Profits going to "Spring Clean" - a camp for addicts in recovery.) Richard Lett also felt the need to write and perform slam poetry on his way to the Vancouver Poetry Slam finals in 2008, and on to being Toronto's 2013 Grand Slam Poet Champ and captain of the 2013 Toronto Poetry Slam Team as his alter-ego Optimus Rhyme. He knocked 'em out in Boston at the National Poetry Slam in August that year and won the Toronto's 2013 Word On The Street Slam. In November he and his TPS teammates won the 2013 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word National Championship. His comedy can regularly be heard on Sirius XM radio, and while living in Toronto he was the sidekick and co-host of Canadian TV and film icon Frank D'Angelo for four seasons. Richard now lives in Vancouver where he is regularly seen on local stages doing stand-up or performing at poetry slams or singing and playing original songs on the piano. His portrait photography is also popular and can be seen on Instagram @richardlettphoto.
Richard Levien
Richard Levien has been writing, directing and editing award-winning films for 15 years. Levien's first feature as a writer/director was "Collisions", about a twelve-year-old Latina whose mom is taken away by immigration police. It won the inaugural SFFILM Rainin grant, for screenwriting, and three further SFFILM Rainin grants. "Collisions" premiered at Mill Valley, winning the Indie Audience Award. It went on to win 13 awards from 19 festivals, was broadcast on Fuse, and won an Imagen Award (the premier Latino entertainment awards) for "Best Young Actor - Television" (Izabella Alvarez). It was also nominated for two other Imagen Awards, for "Best Primetime Program: Special, Movie or Limited Series" and "Best Actor - Television" (Jesse Garcia), and a NAMIC Vision Award in the "Original Movie or Special" category. Levien's short "Immersion", about a ten-year-old boy from Mexico struggling at his new school in the U.S., premiered at Slamdance and won Best Bay Area Short at SFIFF. "Immersion" is used by more than 50 school districts and universities to support education about English Language Learners. Levien's editing credits include Barry Jenkins' ("Moonlight") short film "Remigration", and feature documentaries "A Fragile Trust" and "D Tour", broadcast on Independent Lens. His motion graphics work for the Center for Investigative Reporting earned him a national Emmy nomination. Levien is from New Zealand. He has a PhD in theoretical physics from Princeton University.
Richard Lewis
Richard Philip Lewis was born on June 29, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Englewood, New Jersey. He went to Dwight Morrow High School and Ohio State University, graduating in 1969 with a degree in marketing and communications. Lewis wrote ad copy in New Jersey while also writing jokes for comedians such as Morty Gunty. He finally got the nerve to perform his own jokes in 1971 at New York's Improvisation and Pips. After appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) in 1974, he continued to tour and hone his act with help from David Brenner and Robert Klein. His film Diary of a Young Comic (1979) aired in the Saturday Night Live (1975) time-slot. His work on cable "I'm in Pain" for Showtime in 1988, The I'm Exhausted Concert (1988) earned a nomination from American Comedy Awards for Funniest Male Performer in a Television Special (for HBO); Richard Lewis: I'm Doomed (1990) (HBO) won him a second Ace Nomination for Best Stand-Up Comedy Special. His Richard Lewis: The Magical Misery Tour (1996) was filmed at New York's "Bottom Line" in December 1996. In December 1989, he performed to an SRO crowd at Carnegie Hall.
Richard Libertini
Richard Libertini was born in E. Cambridge, Massachusetts, to parents who had come to America from southern Italy. Having grown up in a household where both Italian and English were spoken, he developed an ear for foreign accents. A facility he would later use to advantage on stage and in films. He graduated from Emerson College in Boston, and for a while earned a living as a trumpet player in the Boston area. Later, he moved to New York, where he teamed up with two former college classmates, MacIntyre Dixon and Lynda Segal, to create an off-Broadway revue called "Stewed Prunes." (This was during the coffee house revolution in the 1960s. Bob Dylan was playing around the corner.) The show was quite successful and after running a year in New York they took it on the road. While playing Chicago, he was asked to join the renowned Second City Improvisational Theatre Group, an association which continues to the present. After a number of years doing stage work in New York (Woody Allen's Don't Drink the Water (1969) and Paul Sills' Story Theatre (1971) among many others) he eventually moved to L.A. where he began doing films. Three of his most memorable characters are the Spanish-American dictator in The In-Laws (1979) with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk, the Tibetan Mystic in All of Me (1984) with Steve Martin, and Lily Tomlin and the justice of the peace in Best Friends (1982) with Goldie Hawn and Burt Reynolds. Other films include Fletch (1985) with Chevy Chase and Popeye (1980) with Robin Williams.
Richard Liberty
Richard Liberty was born on March 3, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Day of the Dead (1985), Just Cause (1995) and Flight of the Navigator (1986). He died on October 2, 2000 in Dania, Florida, USA.
Richard Lineback
Richard Lineback was born on February 4, 1952 in Frankfurt, Germany. He is an actor, known for Speed (1994), Natural Born Killers (1994) and The Ring (2002).
Richard Linklater
Self-taught writer-director Richard Stuart Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, to Diane Margaret (Krieger), who taught at a university, and Charles W. Linklater III. Richard was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. Typically setting each of his movies during one 24-hour period, Linklater's work explored what he dubbed "the youth rebellion continuum," focusing in fine detail on generational rites and mores with rare compassion and understanding while definitively capturing the 20-something culture of his era through a series of nuanced, illuminating ensemble pieces which introduced any number of talented young actors into the Hollywood firmament. Born in Houston, Texas, Linklater suspended his educational career at Sam Houston State University in 1982, to work on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He subsequently relocated to the state's capital of Austin, where he founded a film society and began work on his debut film, 1987's It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988). Three years later he released the sprawling Slacker (1990), an insightful, virtually plotless look at 1990s youth culture that became a favorite on the festival circuit prior to earning vast acclaim at Sundance in 1991. Upon its commercial release, the movie, made for less than $23,000, became the subject of considerable mainstream media attention, with the term "slacker" becoming a much-overused catch-all tag employed to affix a name and identity to America's disaffected youth culture.