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.
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