Ralph Richardson
British actor, director (1902–1983) | Things to Come (1936), The Four Feathers (1939), The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
Distinguished British stage actor, in occasional films. Despite his splendid theatrical voice and thespian mannerisms he was at his best playing ordinary chaps, though his gallery included plenty of eccentrics
Mini Biography
Born in Cheltenham, Ralph Richardson was on stage from 1921, notably in productions at the Old Vic – in partnership with Laurence Olivier – at the Royal Court Theatre and the National Theatre, where first nights were marred by firing ‘Ralph’s Rocket’, in memory of his love of his fireworks. (He once destroyed Olivier’s dressing room with a misdirected rocket.)
In private life Richardson was as eccentric as some of the characters he played: stopped by police late at night when walking very slowly along the gutter of an Oxford street, he explained that he was taking his pet mouse for a stroll.
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Jesus of Nazareth (1977) opening credits (21)

Ralph Richardson, June Duprez
The Four Feathers (1939) photograph (1) | Richardson, Duprez

Ralph Richardson, British actor of stage and screen
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Watch Ralph Richardson on British television
- Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
- Thursday at 9pm on Talking Pictures TV
- In 1805, impulsive Lady Caroline Ponsonby marries William Lamb, later Lord Melbourne, and then disgraces him by her wildness.
- Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
- Our Man in Havana (1959)
- Friday at 6.45pm on Sony Movies Classic
- Friday at 7.45pm on Sony Movies Classic
- Friday at 7.45pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- Friday at 8.45pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- Saturday at 2.45pm on Sony Movies Classic
- Saturday at 3.45pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- Saturday at 3.45pm on Sony Movies Classic
- Saturday at 4.45pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- Monday at 3.40pm on Sony Movies Classic
- Monday at 4.40pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- Monday at 4.40pm on Sony Movies Classic
- Monday at 5.40pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- A British vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana allows himself to be recruited as a spy, and wishes he hadn’t.
- Our Man in Havana (1959)