READ MORE: 'A Hard Day's Night' Hits Hulu Plus: Here's Why You Need to Watch It American-born Richard Lester became a director in England and went on to make some of the most iconic British films of the sixties. He worked with — and immortalized on film — many of Britain's pop cultural luminaries, from the Beatles to Peter Sellers, Julie Christie and Anthony Hopkins, proving to be a versatile filmmaker able to work in a variety of genres.