Lloyd Richards
Directing · Director · Assistant Director · Associate Producer
Born Jun 29, 1919
Active 1932–2006 · Awards: Drama Desk Awards, National Medal of Arts, Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, Paul Robeson Award
Lloyd George Richards was a Canadian-American theatre director, and actor. While head of the National Playwrights Conference, he helped cultivate many of the most famous theater writers of the 20th century.
Filmography
The Men (1950) — Assistant DirectorRoots: The Next Generations (1979) — DirectorHallmark Hall of Fame (1951) — Cal · DirectorPartners Please (1932) — DirectorThe Piano Lesson (1995) — DirectorThe Threat (1949) — Assistant DirectorNurse Edith Cavell (1939) — Assistant DirectorThe Brighton Strangler (1945) — Assistant DirectorVisions (1976) — DirectorPaul Robeson (1979) — DirectorAmerican Playhouse (1982) — DirectorIrene (1940) — Assistant DirectorGangway for Tomorrow (1943) — Assistant DirectorCrosscurrent (1971) — Associate ProducerFreeman (1977) — DirectorGold Watch (1976) — DirectorThe Little Foxes (1956) — CalThe Book of Murder (1974) — Director