Richard "Rich" Lee is an American music video and commercial director. He has directed music videos for Eminem, Lana Del Rey, Maroon 5, The Black Eyed Peas, Norah Jones, Michael Bublé and The All-American Rejects. Rich Lee started his professional career as a sculptor and fabricator for Broadway shows in New York City. He later moved on to computer graphics and created 3-D previsualizations for big budget Hollywood feature films such as the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, I Am Legend, Minority Report and Constantine. From the encouragement of feature film directors he moved into directing music videos and commercials. He has directed commercials for brands like Fiat, Hyundai, Honda, Beats by Dre etc.[1][2][3]

Rich Lee
Born
Occupations
  • Music video director
  • commercial director

Videography

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List of music videos, showing year released
Title Year Artist(s)
"Just Like You" 2005 Buckfast
"Grown and Sexy" 2006 Chamillionaire
"Don't Wait" Dashboard Confessional
"All of the Above" Big City Rock
"Clumsy"[A] 2007 Fergie
"Good Enough"[A] Evanescence
"Lie to Me" 12 Stones
"She's Got You High" Mumm-Ra
"It's Over" 2008 Jesse McCartney
"How Do You Sleep?" 2009
"I Will Not Bow" Breaking Benjamin
"Chasing Pirates" Norah Jones
"Haven't Met You Yet" Michael Bublé
"Dollhouse" Priscilla Renea
"The Wind Blows" The All-American Rejects
"I Wanna" (UK version)
"Hush Hush; Hush Hush" The Pussycat Dolls
"Coming Home" (featuring Skylar Grey)[B] 2010 Diddy – Dirty Money
"The Time (Dirty Bit)" The Black Eyed Peas
"Beautiful Dangerous" (featuring Fergie) Slash
"Check It Out" will.i.am and Nicki Minaj
"Hollywood" Michael Bublé
"Touch" Natasha Bedingfield
"Not Afraid" Eminem
"Imma Be Rocking That Body"[C] The Black Eyed Peas
"Gettin' Over You" (featuring Fergie and LMFAO) David Guetta and Chris Willis
"Don't Hold Your Breath" 2011 Nicole Scherzinger
"21st Century Girl" Willow Smith
"Don't Wanna Go Home" Jason Derulo
"Lighters" (featuring Bruno Mars) Bad Meets Evil
"T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)" (featuring Jennifer Lopez and Mick Jagger) will.i.am
"She's So Mean" 2012 Matchbox Twenty
"My Life" (featuring Eminem and Adam Levine) 50 Cent
"Love Somebody" 2013 Maroon 5
"Rap God" Eminem
"The Monster" (featuring Rihanna)
"It's On Again" (featuring Kendrick Lamar) 2014 Alicia Keys
"Love Never Felt So Good" (featuring Justin Timberlake) Michael Jackson
"L.A. Love (La La)" (featuring YG) Fergie
"Phenomenal" 2015 Eminem
"Cold" (featuring Future) 2017 Maroon 5
"Love"
"Lust for Life" (featuring The Weeknd)
"White Mustang"
Lana Del Rey
"Walk on Water" (featuring Beyoncé) Eminem
"Venom" 2018
"Fuck It, I Love You"/"The Greatest"
2019 Lana Del Rey
"Doin' Time"
"All the Good Girls Go to Hell" Billie Eilish
"Girl Like Me" 2020 Black Eyed Peas and Shakira
"Cruel" 2022 Jackson Wang
"Come Alive"
"Candy Necklace"(featuring Jon Batiste) 2023 Lana Del Rey
"Houdini" 2024 Eminem

Television

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Year Title Director Notes
2016 Limitless Yes Episode: "Sands, Agent of Morra"
2019 The Society Yes Episode: "Poison"
Notes
  • A – Directed with Marc Webb.
  • B – Skylar Grey does not appear in the music video.
  • C – "Imma Be" and "Rock That Body" combined into one video.
  • D - Video currently in production.

References

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  1. ^ "DNA | Commercial & Music Video Directors | Rich Lee". Archived from the original on 2011-03-20. Retrieved 2011-03-21.
  2. ^ "SHOOT 2008 New Director: Rich Lee". www.shootonline.com. Archived from the original on 2008-06-01.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-01-23. Retrieved 2010-06-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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