Ralph Richardson
Sir Ralph David Richardson was an English actor. Along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Laurence Olivier, he made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. Neverthless, he worked in films throughout most of his career, playing more than sixty cinema roles. From an artistic but not theatrical background, Richardson had no thought of a stage career until a production of Hamlet in Brighton inspired him to become an actor. He learned his craft in the 1920s with a touring company and later the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. In 1931 he joined the Old Vic, playing mostly Shakespearean roles. He led the company the following season, succeeding Gielgud, who had taught him much about stage technique. After he left the company, a series of leading roles took him to stardom in the West End and on Broadway.
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Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
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1993
Directed by William Wyler
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1986
Give My Regards to Broad Street
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1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
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1984
Witness for the Prosecution
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1982
Laurence Olivier: A Life
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1982
Early Days
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1981
Time Bandits
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1981
Dragonslayer
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1981
Watership Down
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1978
No Man's Land
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1978
The Man in the Iron Mask
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1977
Rollerball
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1975
Frankenstein: The True Story
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1974
A Doll's House
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1973
O Lucky Man!
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1973
Lady Caroline Lamb
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1972
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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1972
Tales from the Crypt
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1972
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
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1972
Eagle in a Cage
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1972
David Copperfield
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1969
Battle of Britain
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1969
The Bed Sitting Room
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1969
Midas Run
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1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
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1969
The Wrong Box
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1966
Khartoum
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1966
Chimes at Midnight
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1965
Doctor Zhivago
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1965
Woman of Straw
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1964
Hedda Gabler
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1962
Heart to Heart
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1962
Long Day's Journey Into Night
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1962
The 300 Spartans
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1962
Exodus
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1960
Oscar Wilde
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1960
Our Man in Havana
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1960
The Passionate Stranger
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1957
Richard III
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1955
The Holly and the Ivy
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1952
The Sound Barrier
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1952
Home at Seven
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1952
Home at Seven
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1952
Outcast of the Islands
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1951
The Heiress
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1949
The Fallen Idol
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1948
Anna Karenina
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1948
School for Secrets
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1946
The Volunteer
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1944
The Silver Fleet
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1943
The Day Will Dawn
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1942
One Company
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1942
The Lion Has Wings
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1939
On the Night of the Fire
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1939
The Four Feathers
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1939
Q Planes
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1939
The Citadel
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1938
The Divorce of Lady X
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1938
Thunder in the City
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1937
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
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1936
Things to Come
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1936
Java Head
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1934
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
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1934
Friday the Thirteenth
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1933
The Ghoul
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1933
Health of a Nation
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