
Ralph Richardson
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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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.109 |
Birthday | 1902-12-19 |
Place of Birth | Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK |
Also Known As | Sir Ralph Richardson, Ральф Ричардсон, Ralph David Richardson, Ральф Дэвид Ричардсон, |

1965

Doctor Zhivago
7.542/1161
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...
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Doctor Zhivago

1968

The Movie Orgy
6.4/10
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov...
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The Movie Orgy

1981

Dragonslayer
6.489/279
A sorcerer and his apprentice are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact that the K...
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Dragonslayer

1974

Frankenstein: The True Story
7.6/31
Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.
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Frankenstein: The True Story

1939

The Four Feathers
6.989/95
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
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The Four Feathers

1960

Exodus
6.6/201
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyp...
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1936

Things to Come
6.4/192
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1977

The Man in the Iron Mask
6.2/58
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1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
6.3/467
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1964

Woman of Straw
6.1/52
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1969

Oh! What a Lovely War
6.64/43
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warf...
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1982

Witness for the Prosecution
6.094/16
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...
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Witness for the Prosecution

1948

The Fallen Idol
7.18/169
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1969

Battle of Britain
6.8/314
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1972

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
6.2/70
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1948

Anna Karenina
6/56
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1960

Our Man in Havana
6.741/108
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1969

The Bed Sitting Room
5.9/44
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1972

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
6.195/41
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1933

The Ghoul
5.4/56
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1984

Give My Regards to Broad Street
4.7/19
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Give My Regards to Broad Street

1949

The Heiress
7.8/251
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The Heiress

1966

Khartoum
6.3/112
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from...
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Khartoum

1973

A Doll's House
5.5/19
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...
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A Doll's House

1973

O Lucky Man!
6.8/99
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
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O Lucky Man!

1981

Time Bandits
6.579/1017
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...
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Time Bandits

1962

Long Day's Journey Into Night
7/68
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Long Day's Journey Into Night

1955

Richard III
7.122/90
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himse...
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Richard III

1939

Q Planes
5.8/38
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Q Planes

1938

The Divorce of Lady X
6/16
The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.
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The Divorce of Lady X

1966

The Wrong Box
6.5/57
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.
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The Wrong Box

1942

The Day Will Dawn
5.6/5
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...
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The Day Will Dawn

1934

The King of Paris
0/0
Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame threa...
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The King of Paris

1972

Tales from the Crypt
6.859/295
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...
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1970

The Looking Glass War
5.5/27
When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrate...
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1939

The Lion Has Wings
6.154/13
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British...
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1965

Moscow in Madrid
0/0
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...
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1936

The Man Who Could Work Miracles
5.685/27
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
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1952

The Sound Barrier
6.5/54
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
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1962

The 300 Spartans
6.4/135
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...
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1946

School for Secrets
6.5/2
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...
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1938

The Citadel
6.3/27
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...
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1939

On the Night of the Fire
5.2/9
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
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1973

William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
0/0
Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.
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1935

Bulldog Jack
6.2/5
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil...
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Bulldog Jack

1951

Outcast of the Islands
6/27
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal ch...
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1952

The Holly and the Ivy
6.6/26
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1937

Thunder in the City
5.4/5
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
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1943

The Silver Fleet
6/8
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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1939

Bees on the Boat-Deck
0/0
Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.
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Bees on the Boat-Deck

1938

South Riding
6.2/5
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...
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South Riding

1934

The Return of Bulldog Drummond
6.1/16
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
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The Return of Bulldog Drummond

1962

Hedda Gabler
7.5/8
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...
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Hedda Gabler

1956

Smiley
6.7/7
Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father Bill...
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Smiley

1979

Charlie Muffin
5.5/4
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

1960

Oscar Wilde
5.3/10
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate re...
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Oscar Wilde

1978

No Man's Land
7/2
'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...
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No Man's Land

1972

Eagle in a Cage
5/2
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
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Eagle in a Cage

1969

Midas Run
4/4
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.
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Midas Run

1944

The Volunteer
4.7/7
World War II propaganda film.
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The Volunteer

1934

Java Head
6/4
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...
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Java Head

1983

Invitation to the Wedding
0/1
An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.
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Invitation to the Wedding

1970

Twelfth Night
6.4/4
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...
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Twelfth Night

1952

Home at Seven
6.1/15
Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
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Home at Seven

1972

Home
7.8/6
David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.
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Home

1975

Rollerball
6.245/544
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...
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Rollerball

1939

Smith
5/1
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...
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Smith

1978

Watership Down
7.185/634
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...
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Watership Down

1972

Lady Caroline Lamb
5.8/13
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
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Lady Caroline Lamb

1965

Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
0/0
In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles i...
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Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean

1970

Upon This Rock
0/0
Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.
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Upon This Rock

1957

The Passionate Stranger
5.5/10
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italia...
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The Passionate Stranger

1931

Dreyfus
0/0
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into t...
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Dreyfus

1965

Johnson Over Jordan
0/0
Adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s play.
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Johnson Over Jordan

1969

David Copperfield
5.4/14
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phi...
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David Copperfield

1965

Chimes at Midnight
7.1/212
Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry'...
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Chimes at Midnight

1950

Cricket
0/0
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 cricket...
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Cricket

1949

Come Saturday
0/0
Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."
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Come Saturday

1962

Heart to Heart
0/0
A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
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Heart to Heart

1950

Eagles of the Fleet
6/1
Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."
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Eagles of the Fleet

1986

Directed by William Wyler
0/0
Documentary about the famed Hollywood director.
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Directed by William Wyler

1933

Friday the Thirteenth
6/9
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...
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Friday the Thirteenth

1973

O Lucky Man! Innovations in Entertainment
0/0
A behind the scenes look at the making of the 1973 film “O Lucky Man!"
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