- Birth nameLloyd Richard Ellison
- Richard Ellison is known for The Core (2003), Thir13en Ghosts (2001) and Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015).
- SpousesSara Altherr(? - October 8, 2004) (his death)Margot Ellison (divorced)
- His production of "Vietnam: A Television History" received several Emmys, a George Peabody Award and a George Polk Award.
- He went to sea at age 17 and was an officer in the Merchant Marine during World War II.
- "Vietnam" took seven years to produce and utilized vintage film footage from US, British, French, and North Vietnamese sources.
- When he was 13, he ran away from home and got a job with migrant workers picking cherries. Later, he worked at his father's bookstore, lied about his age to join the merchant marine, worked as a film gaffer, and wrote detective stories in a pulp fiction mill.
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