Richard Lester
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Richard Lester Liebman (born January 19, 1932), also known as Dick Lester, is a retired American film director based in the United Kingdom.
He is best known for his appearances with The Beatles in the 1960s and his appearance on the 1980s Superman film version.
Personal life
Lester's book Getting Away with It by Soderbergh reveals that he is committed atheist and discusses Soderbergh (then an agnostic) largely based on Richard Dawkins' arguments. During Lester's time at the University of Pennsylvania, he was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity's Beta Rho Chapter.
On August 28, 1956, Richard Lester married choreographer Deirdre Vivian Smith. Dominic and Claudia have two children.
Early years and career
Richard Lester Liebman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a Jewish family. He graduated from the William Penn Charter School, a Quaker school in Philadelphia, and began studying at the University of Pennsylvania at the age of 15, receiving a degree in clinical psychology.
Lester began working as a stage hand, floor manager, assistant director, and then director in fewer than a year because no one else was around who knew how to do the job.
Lester was the music director on Action in the Afternoon, an American western television series that aired on CBS from February 2, 1953 to January 29, 1954. The show debuted on CBS' then-Philadelphia affiliate WCAU-TV's backlot and studios, and it was omni-weeked, from Monday to Friday, regardless of the weather. Throughout its run, the half-hour show aired at 3:30 p.m. or 4:00 p.m.
Lester, a former busking around continental Europe, migrated to London and began working as a director on television, appearing in episodes of Mark Saber, a half-hour detective film.
He worked on Curtains for Harry (1955) and The Barris Beat (1956), a memoirist.
Peter Sellers, who enlisted Lester's help in translating the Goon Show to television, was enlisted on a variety show he created. The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d (1956), a newspaper distributed in the United States. It was a success, as did two sequel shows: A Show Called Fred (1956) and Son of Fred (1956).
Lester remembered that A Show Called Fred was "broadcast live, and that's why I went into film directing, where you can do a second take."
After Hours (1958), he wrote and directed episodes of the TV show After Hours (1958).
Lester received the distinction for his short film The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959), a short film he made with Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers. In 1959, he did a short film called The Sound of Jazz (1959).
It's Trad, Dad, Steve's first film as director. (1962), a low-budget musical. Margaret Rutherford, a sequel to The Mouse on the Moon (1959), was Walter Shenson's second film The Mouse on the Moon (1963). He returned to television and produced episodes of Room at the Bottom (1964).