Richard Hoover Lyford was an American filmmaker who lived from 7 October 1917 to 4 November 1985. He directed avant-garde films in Seattle early in his career, worked for Walt Disney in the 1940s, and in 1950 co-directed and edited The Titan: Story of Michelangelo, which won the Academy Award for documentary feature in 1950 and was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005. In 1951 he moved to Saudi Arabia to produce Island of Allah, a documentary on the history of the Arab people.
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In 1950, he co-directed and edited The Titan: Story of Michelangelo, which won an Academy Award for documentary feature in 1950 and was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.
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