Lloyd Richardson

Lloyd L. Richardson was an American film editor and writer, who worked for Disney Studios on both animated and live-action feature as well as shorts, like The Vanishing Prairie and Bear Country. Former vice chairman of The Walt Disney Company Roy E. Disney once described his former boss: “Lloyd exemplified the editor as a creative force. He was an original thinker who didn’t just make one cut match another cut, but always considered the whole story.”
Born in Portland, Oregon; Richardson attended Los Angeles City College in Southern California, but he quit school during the Great Depression to work a variety of odd jobs at companies, such as Eastman Kodak and Adohr Dairy. In 1937, he landed a position as a traffic boy running errands at Disney Studios. Before long, he was hired and worked in the Editorial department where he learned his craft on films, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio. Richardson continued to work on films, like Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, Alice in Wonderland, Song of the South, and So Dear to My Heart.
In the 1950s, Richardson began editing and directing segments for the Disney anthology series As fellow editor Stormy Palmer recalled, “Lloyd gave his all to the Disneyland series. His work was impeccable.” He also contributed to the studio's first color broadcast, "An Adventure in Color: Mathmagic Land". In 1961, he won the American Cinema Editors Award for his contributions to the telefilm, Chico, the Misunderstood Coyote. In 1969, Lloyd helped create the animated featurette It's Tough to Be a Bird with Ward Kimball, which won an Oscar® for Best Short Subject. Richardson retired from Disney in 1980.
Outside of Disney, Lloyd worked as an editor-at-large on a variety of projects, including foreign editing, matching languages to animation, editing training films produced by Disney for the United States Armed Forces during World War II, as well as editing television shows, like Karen, Dallas, and the Three Stooges short Uncivil War Birds.
In 1998, Richardson was inducted as a Disney Legend. He passed away on February 19, 2002.
==Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position
1937 	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 	Editorial Department - uncredited
1940 	Pinocchio 	Editorial Department - uncredited
1942 	Saludos Amigos 	Film editor - uncredited
1944 	The Three Caballeros 	Film editor - uncredited
1946 	Make Mine Music 	Film editor - uncredited
1946 	Song of the South 	Film editor - uncredited
1948 	So Dear to My Heart 	Film editor
1951 	Alice in Wonderland 	Film editorAssistant director - uncredited
1953 	Bear Country 	Film editor
1954 	The Vanishing Prairie 	Film editor
1954-1980	The Magical World of Disney 	Film editorWriter: "The Adventures of Mickey Mouse"
1956 	Disneyland, U.S.A. 	Film editor
1959 	Disneyland '59 	Film editor
1959 	Eyes in Outer Space 	Film editor
1959 	Donald in Mathmagic Land 	Film editor
1961 	Chico, the Misunderstood Coyote 	Film editor
1967 	The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle 	Film editor
1969 	Hang Your Hat on the Wind 	Film editor
1969 	It's Tough to Be a Bird 	Film editor
1970 	Dad, Can I Borrow the Car? 	Film editor
1971 	The Million Dollar Duck 	Film editor
1972 	The Magic of Walt Disney World 	Film editor
1978 	NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney	Film editor
1978 	Mickey's 50 	Film editor
1979 	Cosmic Capers 	Film editor
1980 	The Kids Who Knew Too Much 	Film editor
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