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Richard Stanley Roud (July 6, 1929 – February 13, 1989) was an American writer on film and co-founder, with Amos Vogel, of the New York Film Festival (NYFF). "Richard Roud Memorial", The New York Times, February 23, 1989. At the NYFF, Roud was a former program director, and latterly director, from 1963 to 1987.
His tastes were described by his colleagues at the London Film Festival as idiosyncratic and fiercely held. He promoted many French nouvelle vague directors and revived interest in Max Ophüls La signora di tutti.
Roud's books include Max Ophuls: An Index (1958), Cinema – A Critical Dictionary – The Major Film-Makers (1980), a two-volume work which he edited; A Passion for Film (1983), a biography of Henri Langlois, the former director of the Cinémathèque Française; and two books on nouvelle vague directors Straub-Huillet and Jean-Luc Godard. A volume of Roud's previously uncollected writings, Decades Never Start on Time: A Richard Roud Anthology, was published by the BFI in 2014.
He was made a Knight in the French Legion of Honor in 1979 and was the recipient of the National Society of Film Critics Awards (USA) Special Award in January 1988.
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