Richard Stanley
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- A separate article is about the mathematician Richard P. Stanley.
Richard Stanley (born 22 November 1966) is a film director and screenwriter born in South Africa. He has directed films such as Hardware and Dust Devil, released in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He has also worked on music videos for bands like Fields of the Nephilim, as well as directing a 50-minute length video for Marillion's concept album, Brave, which has since been released on DVD. He contributed to the screenplay for the 1996 film The Island of Dr. Moreau but was fired as director and replaced by John Frankenheimer.
He has since completed two documentary films, The Secret Glory (about SS officer Otto Rahn's search for the Holy Grail) in 2001 and The White Darkness (concerning the voodoo practices in Haiti) in 2002. Following an extensive number of festival screenings worldwide, both documentaries are slated to appear in the Dust Devil DVD box-set, to be released by Subversive Cinema in September 2006. [1] In April 2006, it was announced he is to direct a new music video for Fields of the Nephilim's latest studio album, Mourning Sun.
He has a feature film in development titled 'Vacation' which he intends to film in the Canary Islands in 2007. It concerns an American couple holidaying in the Middle East when nuclear war breaks out.
Richard Stanley currently works and lives in London, England.
[edit] Trivia
He is the great grandson of explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley[2].
[edit] External links
- Richard Stanley at the Internet Movie Database
- Between Death and the Devil - The unofficial Richard Stanley Website
