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May 22, 2003 · Lester, Richard. b. January 19, 1932, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Looking back on the career of Richard Lester is a little like receiving the rarest of glimpses of an all but unimaginable period in Hollywood history. Lester is a director who functioned fully within the mainstream of studio filmmaking.
Help!: Directed by Richard Lester. With The Beatles, Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti. When a female member of a murderous Eastern cult sends Ringo Starr their Sacrificial ring and it gets stuck on his hand, he becomes a target of both the cult and an obsessed scientist.
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The Richard Lester of the 60s remains one of the most influential filmmakers of the last 30 years as the anarchic techniques he pioneered have become staples of the contemporary pop video lexicon." - James Monaco (The Virgin International Encyclopedia of Film, 1992)
Jul 7, 2014 · The Later Career of Richard Lester. D irector Richard Lester is best remembered for his delightfully mod films of the sixties, including the Beatles classics A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and Help! (1965) as well as The Knack . . . and How to Get It (1965) and Petulia (1968). In the following video essay, the final part of a supplement titled ...
Biography. A visually dazzling and witty filmmaker whose hyperkinetic films helped to shape the look and pace of 1960s-era cinema, Richard Lester was the creative force behind the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) and "Help!" (1965), as well as such crowd-pleasing hits as "The Knack. And How to Get It" (1965), "The Three Musketeers" (1973 ...
Box office. $11 million [2] A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 musical comedy film starring the English rock band the Beatles — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr —during the height of Beatlemania. Directed by Richard Lester, it was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United Artists.
Richard Lester MD, FRCPC UBC Division of Infectious DiseasesUBC Rank: Associate Professor Areas ofFocus Dr. Lester’s work focuses on researching digital health and virtual care for patient care in local and global health environments, focusing on mobile phone use (mHealth), equity, and access. His mission is to ensure the scale-up of evidence ...
