Ralph Richardson

Born: 1902-12-19

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Richardson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Time Bandits

as Supreme Being
Released: 1981-07-13

Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one...

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Doctor Zhivago

as Alexander Gromeko
Released: 1965-12-22

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a...

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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

as The Sixth Earl of Greystoke
Released: 1984-03-30

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The...

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Battle of Britain

as Sir David Kelly - British Minister to Switzerland
Released: 1969-09-15

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for...

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Exodus

as Gen. Sutherland
Released: 1960-12-15

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to...

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Things to Come

as The Boss
Released: 1936-03-31

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a...

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Watership Down

as Chief Rabbit (voice)
Released: 1978-10-14

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver,...

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The 300 Spartans

as Themistocles of Athens
Released: 1962-08-01

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek...

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The Four Feathers

as John Durrance
Released: 1939-04-20

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

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Chimes at Midnight

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1965-12-22

Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a...

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The Man in the Iron Mask

as Colbert de Voliere
Released: 1977-07-17

The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe...

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Tales from the Crypt

as The Crypt Keeper
Released: 1972-03-09

Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a...

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O Lucky Man!

as Sir James Burgess / Monty
Released: 1973-03-25

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed...

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The Heiress

as Dr. Austin Sloper
Released: 1949-10-06

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an...

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Dragonslayer

as Ulrich
Released: 1981-06-26

The sorcerer and his apprentice Galen are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s...

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Khartoum

as William Gladstone
Released: 1966-06-09

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by...

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Rollerball

as Librarian
Released: 1975-06-25

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the...

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The Fallen Idol

as Baines
Released: 1948-09-30

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of...

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Anna Karenina

as Alexei Karenin
Released: 1948-01-22

Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to...

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The Wrong Box

as Joseph Finsbury
Released: 1966-06-19

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can...

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as Duke of Buckingham
Released: 1955-12-13

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback...

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Woman of Straw

as Charles Richmond
Released: 1964-04-28

Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle...

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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

as Mr. Benton
Released: 1972-02-11

A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel"...

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Our Man in Havana

as 'C'
Released: 1960-01-27

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage...

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

as The Caterpillar
Released: 1972-11-20

An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale....

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The Sound Barrier

as John Ridgefield
Released: 1952-10-10

Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.

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Long Day's Journey Into Night

as James Tyrone
Released: 1962-10-09

Over the course of one foggy day in August 1912, a retired Irish theater actor grapples with the...

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Oh! What a Lovely War

as Sir Edward Grey
Released: 1969-03-10

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys...

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The Holly and the Ivy

as Reverend Martin Gregory
Released: 1952-12-03

An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners,...

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The Ghoul

as Nigel Hartley
Released: 1933-08-01

British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried...

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The Looking Glass War

as LeClerc
Released: 1970-01-02

When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him...

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Q Planes

as Maj. Charles Hammond
Released: 1939-02-21

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter...

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Lady Caroline Lamb

as George IV
Released: 1972-11-22

Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet...

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The Movie Orgy

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1968-01-01

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels,...

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The Silver Fleet

as Jaap van Leyden
Released: 1943-03-15

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates...

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Oscar Wilde

as Sir Edward Carson
Released: 1960-05-29

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young...

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The Bed Sitting Room

as Lord Fortnum of Alamein
Released: 1969-06-01

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is...

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Frankenstein: The True Story

as Mr. Lacey
Released: 1974-09-19

Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his...

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The Divorce of Lady X

as Lord Mere
Released: 1938-01-15

The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for...

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Midas Run

as Lord Henshaw
Released: 1969-05-07

A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of...

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Give My Regards to Broad Street

as Jim
Released: 1984-11-28

When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts...

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The Lion Has Wings

as Wing Commander Richardson
Released: 1939-11-03

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the...

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David Copperfield

as Mr. Micawber
Released: 1969-12-01

A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into...

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The Man Who Could Work Miracles

as Colonel Winstanley
Released: 1936-07-23

An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers...

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Eagle in a Cage

as Sir Hudson Lowe
Released: 1972-01-09

1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon

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The Citadel

as Dr. Philip Denny
Released: 1938-10-29

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his...

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Witness for the Prosecution

as Sir Wilfred Robarts
Released: 1982-12-04

Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two...

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Outcast of the Islands

as Captain Tom Lingard
Released: 1951-11-15

After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works,...

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School for Secrets

as Prof. Heatherville
Released: 1946-12-23

Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They...

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Home at Seven

as David Preston
Released: 1952-03-16

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

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A Doll's House

as Dr. Rank
Released: 1973-04-10

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian...

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The Passionate Stranger

as Roger Wynter / Sir Clement
Released: 1957-03-04

Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores...

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Friday the Thirteenth

as Horace Dawes
Released: 1933-11-01

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a...

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The Day Will Dawn

as Frank Lockwood
Released: 1942-06-08

Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when...

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Hedda Gabler

as Judge Brack
Released: 1962-12-28

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic...

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Smiley

as Rev. Lambeth
Released: 1956-06-28

Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of...

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Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean

as Self
Released: 1965-01-01

In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean...

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Directed by William Wyler

as Self
Released: 1986-05-01

Documentary about the famed Hollywood director.

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Java Head

as William Ammidon
Released: 1934-07-31

The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line...

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Jesus Of Nazareth

as Simeon
Released: 1977-03-27

Robert Powell stars in the epic 1977 drama chronicling the birth, life, crucifixion and...

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Thunder in the City

as Henry V. Manningdale
Released: 1937-04-22

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have...

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On the Night of the Fire

as Will Kobling
Released: 1939-10-26

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

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William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare

as Various
Released: 1973-01-03

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.

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No Man's Land

as Hirst
Released: 1978-10-03

'No Man's Land' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this...

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Home

as Jack
Released: 1972-01-06

David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.

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The Return of Bulldog Drummond

as Major Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
Released: 1934-04-19

Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

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Upon This Rock

as Himself (Narrator)
Released: 1970-01-01

Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.

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Twelfth Night

as Sir Toby Belch
Released: 1970-07-12

Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of...

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The Volunteer

as Self - Narrator
Released: 1944-01-10

World War II propaganda film.

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Charlie Muffin

as Sir Archibald Willoughby
Released: 1979-12-11

Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy...

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Bulldog Jack

as Morelle
Released: 1935-09-01

While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket...

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South Riding

as Robert Carne
Released: 1938-08-01

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:-...

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Heart to Heart

as Sir Stanley Johnson
Released: 1962-12-06

A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.

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Dreyfus

as Extra
Released: 1931-04-18

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another...

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Moscow in Madrid

as Self
Released: 1965-12-31

When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to...

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Invitation to the Wedding

as uncredited
Released: 1983-01-01

An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.

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Great Performances

as Self
First aired: 1971-01-28

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...

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Great Performances

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-01-28

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...

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ABC Afterschool Special

as Various Roles
First aired: 1972-10-04

Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers....

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Play for Today

as Jack
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Jesus of Nazareth

as Simeon
First aired: 1977-03-27

Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely...

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What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest
First aired: 1950-02-02

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...

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The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest
First aired: 1968-06-06

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...

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Omnibus

as Self
First aired: 1967-10-13

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the...

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Omnibus

as Self / Johnson
First aired: 1967-10-13

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the...

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Second City Television

as Self - Special Guest Star
First aired: 1976-09-21

Second City Television is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's...

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Frankenstein: The True Story

as Mr. Lacey
First aired: 1973-11-30

Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his...

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Wagner

as Pfordten
First aired: 1983-10-03

A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Barrister
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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The Great War

as Douglas Haig (voice)
First aired: 1964-05-30

A milestone 26-part history of the First World War, conceived to mark the 50th anniversary of...

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The Morecambe and Wise Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1980-09-03

The Thames ITV series that ran from 1978 to 1983.

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