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"Richard Lester has been presented with the BFI Fellowship. The director was given the accolade by BFI Chair Greg Dyke after a screening of his film Robin and Marian at the BFI Southbank. Lester said: &amp;quot;When my career was just beginning, the elegant TV critic Bernard Levin came to see me in rehearsal with Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers. &amp;quot;He wrote, &amp;#039;He seems an amiable young man who climbed into a lion&amp;#039;s cage and realised he&amp;#039;s forgotten his chair and his whip&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;Some 50 years later, I still haven&amp;#039;t found a whip, but with this extraordinary honour, the BFI has kindly given me a chair.&amp;quot; Dyke added: &amp;quot;Richard Lester has created a unique body of work which has enriched the lives of millions with his brilliantly surreal humour and innovative style. &amp;quot;Although born in America he has lived in Britain for 60 years and created some of the most enduring and influential creations of British cinema.&amp;quot; Born in 1932, Lester came to England in 1956 and has remained a resident since. After he and Sellers directed the Oscar-nominated short The Running Jumping &amp;amp; Standing Still Film Lester was chosen to direct The Beatles&amp;#039; first two films A Hard Day&amp;#039;s Night (1964) and Help! (1965). Past recipients of the BFI Fellowship have included Danny Boyle, Ralph Fiennes, Martin Scorsese, Judi Dench and David Cronenberg. Watch Richard Lester&amp;#039;s The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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