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Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films.
Richardson first became known for his work on stage in the 1930s. In the 1940s, together with Laurence Olivier, he ran the Old Vic company. He continued on stage and in films into the early 1980s and was especially praised for his comedic roles. In his later years he was celebrated for his theatre work with his old friend John Gielgud. Among his most famous roles were Peer Gynt, Falstaff, John Gabriel Borkman and Hirst in Pinter’s No Man’s Land.
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Ralph Richardson Biography / Wiki
| Name | Ralph Richardson |
| Also Know | Sir Ralph Richardson |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Cheltenham, England |
| Date of Birth | 1902-12-19 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 80 |
| Deathday | 1983-10-10 |
Ralph Richardson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | The Sixth Earl of Greystoke | 1984-03-30 | A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their t… |
| The Fallen Idol | Baines | 1948-09-30 | Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father’s butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes … |
| The Sound Barrier | John Ridgefield | 1952-10-10 | Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight…. |
| School for Secrets | Prof. Heatherville | 1946-12-23 | Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of B… |
| On the Night of the Fire | Will Kobling | 1939-10-26 | A barber (Ralph Richardson) gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder…. |
| The Holly and the Ivy | Reverend Martin Gregory | 1952-12-03 | An English clergyman’s neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering…. |
| The Silver Fleet | Jaap van Leyden | 1943-03-15 | Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to fo… |
| The Return of Bulldog Drummond | Major Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond | 1934-04-19 | The retired British captain forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson…. |
| Invitation to the Wedding | 1983-01-01 | An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate’s sister…. | |
| Home at Seven | David Preston | 1952-03-16 | Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder…. |
| Twelfth Night | Sir Toby Belch | 1969-01-06 | Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John D… |
| Smith | Smith | 1939-06-28 | John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the Em… |
| The Passionate Stranger | Roger Wynter / Sir Clement | 1957-03-04 | Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italia… |
| The Volunteer | Himself / Narrator | 1944-01-10 | World War II propaganda film…. |
| Cricket | Narrator(voice) | 1950-11-18 | Through the pattern of this film a ‘Test’ at Lord’s runs like a thread and a broadcast commentary on the match is imposed on the background of c… |
| Come Saturday | Narrator | 1949-01-02 | Part of BFI collection “Portrait of a People.”… |
| Eagles of the Fleet | Commentary | 1950-01-02 | Part of BFI collection “They Stand Ready.”… |
| The Four Feathers | John Durrance | 1939-04-20 | A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle…. |
| Witness for the Prosecution | Sir Wilfred Robarts | 1982-12-04 | Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the prac… |
| Anna Karenina | Alexei Karenin | 1948-01-22 | Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna’s compani… |
| Long Day’s Journey Into Night | James Tyrone | 1962-10-09 | Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness… |
| Q Planes | Maj. Charles Hammond | 1939-02-21 | An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes…. |
| The Wrong Box | Joseph Finsbury | 1966-06-19 | In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so…. |
| O Lucky Man! | Sir James Burgess / Monty | 1973-03-25 | This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in mod… |
| The Lion Has Wings | Wing Commander Richardson | 1939-11-03 | This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British… |
| The Man Who Could Work Miracles | Colonel Winstanley | 1936-07-23 | An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them…. |
| The 300 Spartans | Themistocles of Athens | 1962-08-01 | Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hol… |
| Outcast of the Islands | Captain Tom Lingard | 1951-11-15 | After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal ch… |
| South Riding | Robert Carne | 1938-08-01 | Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but ‘the front-line defence thrown up by humanity again… |
| Oscar Wilde | Sir Edward Carson | 1960-05-29 | England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate re… |
| No Man’s Land | Hirst | 1978-10-03 | ‘No Man’s Land’ is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this 1978, TV adaptation, a seedy poet shows up at the home… |
| Home | Jack | 1972-01-06 | David Storey’s adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC’s Play for Today series…. |
| Eagle in a Cage | Sir Hudson Lowe | 1972-01-09 | 1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon… |
| Heart to Heart | Sir Stanley Johnson | 1962-12-06 | A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister…. |
| Friday the Thirteenth | Horace Dawes | 1933-11-01 | It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen a… |
| Dragonslayer | Ulrich | 1981-06-26 | The sorcerer and his apprentice Galen are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact … |
| Exodus | Gen. Sutherland | 1960-03-27 | Based on Leon Uris’ novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of Worl… |
| Things to Come | The Boss | 1936-03-31 | The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space trav… |
| Woman of Straw | Charles Richmond | 1964-04-28 | Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs,… |
| The Heiress | Dr. Austin Sloper | 1949-10-06 | Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than … |
| A Doll’s House | Dr. Rank | 1973-04-10 | Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and li… |
| The Looking Glass War | LeClerc | 1969-05-22 | When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrat… |
| The Citadel | Dr. Philip Denny | 1938-10-29 | Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the… |
| Bulldog Jack | Morelle | 1935-09-01 | While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil… |
| Hedda Gabler | Judge Brack | 1962-12-28 | Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and na… |
| Smiley | Rev. Lambeth | 1956-06-28 | Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father Bill… |
| Upon This Rock | Himself (Narrator) | 1970-01-01 | Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter’s Cathedral, Vatican, Rome…. |
| Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? | Mr. Benton | 1972-02-11 | A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre “Hansel and Gretel” twist…. |
| The Ghoul | Nigel Hartley | 1933-08-01 | Professor Morlant, a British Egyptologist, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morl… |
| Khartoum | William Gladstone | 1966-06-09 | English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from… |
| Richard III | Duke of Buckingham | 1955-12-13 | Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of York, plots to seize power for himself. Ma… |
| The Divorce of Lady X | Lord Mere | 1938-01-15 | The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce…. |
| The Day Will Dawn | Frank Lockwood | 1942-06-08 | Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat … |
| Charlie Muffin | Sir Archibald Willoughby | 1979-12-11 | Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas t… |
| Midas Run | Lord Henshaw | 1969-05-07 | A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted…. |
| Thunder in the City | Henry V. Manningdale | 1937-04-22 | A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen…. |
| Java Head | William Ammidon | 1934-07-31 | The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, i… |
| Watership Down | Chief Rabbit (voice) | 1978-10-14 | When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a … |
| Moscow in Madrid | Self | 1965-12-31 | When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a lo… |
| Our Man in Havana | ‘C’ | 1960-01-27 | Expatriate Englishman Jim Wormold lives in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter. Owning a poorly-performing business, he accepts an offe… |
| Give My Regards to Broad Street | Jim | 1984-11-28 | When the mastertape of McCartney’s latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording… |
| Doctor Zhivago | Alexander Gromeko | 1965-12-22 | The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist’s wife and experiences hardship dur… |
| The Man in the Iron Mask | Colbert de Voliere | 1977-07-17 | The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, … |
| Lady Caroline Lamb | George IV | 1972-11-22 | Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron…. |
| The Bed Sitting Room | Lord Fortnum of Alamein | 1969-06-01 | In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a ‘nuclear misunderstanding’ is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the no… |
| Tales from the Crypt | The Crypt Keeper | 1972-03-09 | Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comi… |
| Battle of Britain | Sir David Kelly – British Minister to Switzerland | 1969-09-15 | In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the N… |
| David Copperfield | Mr. Micawber | 1969-12-01 | A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens’ classic novel, turns Dickens’ picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phi… |
| Directed by William Wyler | Self | 1986-05-01 | Documentary about the famed Hollywood director…. |
| Frankenstein: The True Story | Mr. Lacey | 1974-09-19 | Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he’s duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori…. |
| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | The Caterpillar | 1972-01-01 | An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down … |
| Rollerball | Librarian | 1975-06-25 | In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy tho… |
| Time Bandits | Supreme Being | 1981-07-13 | Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they’ve purl… |
| Oh! What a Lovely War | Sir Edward Grey | 1969-03-10 | Satire about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the “Game of War” and focusing mainly on the members of one fam… |
| Chimes at Midnight | Narrator (voice) | 1965-03-16 | The culmination of Orson Welles’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare’s robustly funny and ultimately tragic antihero, Sir John Falstaff; the ofte… |
| The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) | 1968-01-01 | Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov… |
Ralph Richardson Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Home at Seven | Director | 1952-03-16 | Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder…. |
Ralph Richardson Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Silver Fleet | Associate Producer | 1943-03-15 | Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to fo… |
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