Short answers, pulled from the story.
Richard Lester Liebman was born on the 19th of January 1932 to a Jewish family in Philadelphia. He graduated from William Penn Charter School at age fifteen before entering the University of Pennsylvania shortly after.
MTV sent Richard Lester an award naming him Father of the Music Video. This recognition followed his stylistic innovations in A Hard Day's Night which defined the visual language of the era through multi-angle filming of live performances.
Charles Wood provided screenwriting credits for four of Richard Lester's films during this period. These projects included Help! released in 1965 as well as The Knack... and How to Get It which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1965.
The Salkinds placed Richard Lester behind the camera without informing director Richard Donner while initial production occurred simultaneously with the original film release. Work halted to concentrate on completing the first movie before returning to sequel development so approximately 75 percent of footage needed for the sequel had already been shot by Donner.
Richard Lester finished The Return of the Musketeers then retired from directing permanently after actor Roy Kinnear died following a fall from a horse mid-production in 1988. He returned only once more to direct Paul McCartney's concert film Get Back in 1991.