Ian Richardson
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Ian William Richardson CBE (7 April 1934 – 9 February 2007) was a Scottish actor best known for his portrayal of the Machiavellian Tory politician Francis Urquhart in the BBC's House of Cards trilogy. He was also a leading Shakespearean stage actor.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 21.172 |
| Birthday | 1934-04-07 |
| Place of Birth | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As |
1985
Brazil
7.7/3187
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautif...
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Brazil
2001
From Hell
6.693/2711
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers...
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From Hell
1993
M. Butterfly
6.6/210
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
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M. Butterfly
1998
Dark City
7.324/2714
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic...
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Dark City
2007
Becoming Jane
7.3/1136
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
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Becoming Jane
1987
The Fourth Protocol
6.216/169
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A cr...
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The Fourth Protocol
1986
Whoops Apocalypse
5.7/15
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the count...
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Whoops Apocalypse
2006
Twice Upon a Time
5.9/14
Alice d'Abanville and Louis Ruinard are two extraordinary personalities. They were the most strikingly glamorous couple of the 70s. But this pair have...
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Twice Upon a Time
2005
Joyeux Noel
7.402/836
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispu...
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Joyeux Noel
2007
Hogfather
6.855/162
It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-on and the criminal underworld is abuzz. The belov...
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Hogfather
1998
A Knight in Camelot
5.4/103
Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be se...
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A Knight in Camelot
1992
An Ungentlemanly Act
5.5/13
Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, which eventually...
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An Ungentlemanly Act
1997
Incognito
5.782/55
Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out t...
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Incognito
1997
B.A.P.S
5.2/69
Two clueless homegirls move to L.A. to become dancers, but instead find themselves scamming a dying millionaire to eventually become B*A*P*S (Black Am...
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B.A.P.S
1996
The Treasure Seekers
6/4
Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
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The Treasure Seekers
1996
Catherine the Great
5.7/25
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become...
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Catherine the Great
1993
Dirty Weekend
5.4/12
Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her. Final...
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Dirty Weekend
1983
The Hound of the Baskervilles
6.609/32
Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near h...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
1994
A Change of Place
5.1/8
Kim Jameson is a university professor while Kate Jameson - also known as Dominique, Kim’s twin sister - is a troubled model working in Paris. Kate is...
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A Change of Place
1979
Charlie Muffin
6.333/3
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...
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Charlie Muffin
1984
The Master of Ballantrae
6/3
The Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 TV movie based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.[2] It was a co production between the US and England fo...
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The Master of Ballantrae
1990
King of the Wind
6.4/5
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a...
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King of the Wind
1985
Monsignor Quixote
8.5/1
Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their r...
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Monsignor Quixote
1988
Burning Secret
5.9/9
While recuperating in a sanatorium in the mountains, a young boy becomes very close friends with an older baron. But the baron is only using the boy t...
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Burning Secret
1968
A Midsummer Night's Dream
5.3/6
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Com...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1992
Year of the Comet
5.5/28
Year of the Comet is a 1992 romantic comedy adventure film about the pursuit of the most valuable bottle of wine in history. The title refers to the y...
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Year of the Comet
1997
The Canterville Ghost
0/0
'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the populari...
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The Canterville Ghost
1983
The Sign of Four
6.8/15
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.
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The Sign of Four
1972
Man of La Mancha
6.5/54
In the sixteenth century, Miguel de Cervantes, poet, playwright, and part-time actor, has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish...
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Man of La Mancha
2004
Dæmos Rising
7.5/2
Trapped in an isolated cottage, Captain Cavendish thinks he is seeing ghosts. The only person who might understand and help is Kate Lethbridge-Stewart...
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Dæmos Rising
1980
Gauguin the Savage
0/0
Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to aban...
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Gauguin the Savage
1978
Danton's Death
0/0
Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when...
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Danton's Death
1997
A Royal Scandal
7/4
The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.
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A Royal Scandal
2006
The Booze Cruise III: The Scattering
7.3/3
The gang return for their third adventure, this time on a trip to scatter Grace's mother's ashes on the Yorkshire Moors.
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The Booze Cruise III: The Scattering
2005
The Booze Cruise II: The Treasure Hunt
8/2
The Booze Cruise is a series of three feature length comedy dramas written for British television by Paul Minett and Brian Leveson. In this episode th...
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The Booze Cruise II: The Treasure Hunt
1987
Cry Freedom
7.025/199
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods...
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Cry Freedom
1972
The Darwin Adventure
0/0
The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle.
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The Darwin Adventure
1968
All's Well That Ends Well
0/0
An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company...
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All's Well That Ends Well
1963
As You Like It
0/0
One of the earliest hits for the newly established RSC, Michael Elliott’s sparkling version of Shakespeare's comedy is still remembered with joy by a...
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As You Like It
1989
The Winslow Boy
0/0
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
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The Winslow Boy
1990
The Plot to Kill Hitler
6/23
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German governm...
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The Plot to Kill Hitler
2004
Nero
6/7
As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Ag...
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Nero
2000
3-D Halloween
4/1
Ghost hunters are on the trail of a supernatural phenomenon and legendary figures in Scotland. The forest of Duffus Castle - long one of Scotland's mo...
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3-D Halloween
1985
Star Quality
5/2
Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical endeavour to her best advantage, meets her match whe...
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Star Quality
1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
6.923/279
Two minor characters from the play "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1998
Alice Through the Looking Glass
5/62
A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story...
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
1999
The King and I
5.37/104
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna an...
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The King and I
1987
Blunt
4.8/4
Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union. In love with double agent Guy Burgess,...
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Blunt
2005
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
5.4/14
This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.
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The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
1979
Churchill and the Generals
0/0
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
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Churchill and the Generals
1973
Gawain and the Green Knight
4.6/5
The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
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Gawain and the Green Knight
1978
Sorry...
0/0
Two TV Plays by Vaclav Havel, one called 'Audience', and one called 'Private View'.
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Sorry...
1994
Words Upon the Window Pane
0/0
In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel...
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Words Upon the Window Pane
1997
The Woman In White
6.6/22
Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving...
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The Woman In White
1987
The Devil's Disciple
6/1
Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In 177...
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The Devil's Disciple
1967
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
6.2/30
In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Ass...
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The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
2000
102 Dalmatians
5.492/1313
Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleashed in this great family tail! In an unlikely allia...
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102 Dalmatians
1982
A Cotswold Death
7/1
A village cricket match on the lawn of a great country house - a traditional setting for the perfect English murder. A natural case for the Yard's bes...
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A Cotswold Death
The Fifth Province
6/1
Timmy Sugrue is a persecuted guesthouse keeper and writer who lives with his mad mother in a very rainy part of the Irish midlands. His only consolati...
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The Fifth Province
2002
The Life of Shakespeare
0/0
Dramatically presented and narrated by the late internationally renowned actor of stage and screen Ian Richardson, with exquisite Shakespeare readings...
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The Life of Shakespeare
1983
Salad Days
0/0
A boy, a girl, a tramp and a piano with the most amazing effect on people, find each other in a park in a heatwave.
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Salad Days
1995
Savage Play
0/0
During a rugby tour of Britain and Ireland in 1888, a young New Zealander searches for his father who he has never met. While there he falls in love w...
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Savage Play
1993
Foreign Affairs
7/2
Two couples find love and comfort in London. A reserved, but lonely aging American female college professor meats a self-confident, married, but disil...
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Foreign Affairs
2022
Memorial Memorial
0/0
A memorial of sorts to the plinth on St. Peter's Hill, Grantham, which stood empty for two years before a statue of Margaret Thatcher was mounted in 2...
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Memorial Memorial
2000
The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
8/1
Arthur Conan Doyle reveals the story behind Sherlock Holmes and his mysteries by telling about Dr. Joseph Bell, from whom he drew his inspiration, aft...
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The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
1993
Remember
0/0
Nicky Wells, a TV journalist who is renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the worlds most dangerous spots, is haunted by the disappearance of her...
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Remember
1979
Ike
6.2/2
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal rel...
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