With an extended television background that includes writing work on such popular shows as Three's Company in the U.S. and Agony in the U.K., writer-turned-director Len Richmond honed his storytelling skills on the small screen for just over two decades before opting to step into the director's chair for the comedy A Dirty Little Business.

Though the Santa Monica, CA native's earliest professional writing experience found him penning episodes of the classic American sitcom Three's Company, Richmond soon opted to branch out overseas where he created the BAFTA nominated U.K. comedy series Agony. Agony has been broadcast in 26 countries including twice on PBS.

Its American spin-off, The Lucie Arnaz Show, ran on CBS. A subsequent move to Paris found Richmond lending his pen to the French detective series Le Chinois, starring Charles Aznavour; with a stint on the highly-rated U.K. beauty salon comedy Split Ends following later that same year. In the decade following his work on Split Ends, Richmond eschewed television writing in favor of penning articles for such well-known magazines as Cosmopolitan and Forum, where he served an extensive stint as a popular sex-advice columnist.

Though his editorial work on The Gay Liberation Book and the publication of his first novel, Naked in Paradise, may have signaled a shift away from his original career as a television writer, film reviews for The Time Out Film Guide as well as celebrity profiles in Time Out Interviews showed a writer still very much taken by the entertainment industry. Richmond cemented his devotion to the screen by writing and directing the award-winning feature, A Dirty Little Business.

An independent comedy starring Michael York as a Russian entrepreneur in search of the American dream, A Dirty Little Business offered a gleefully irreverent behind-the-scenes look at the American sex-toy industry and featured a bouncing pop soundtrack by London techno-pop duo Erasure. It also stars Beverly D’Angelo, Troy Donahue, and Brian Cox.

~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

 

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