Ralph David Richardson biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Sir Ralph David Richardson

Author Name:

Sir Ralph David Richardson

Born As:

Ralph David Richardson

Other Names:

Sir Ralph David Richardson

Born:

19 Dec 1902

Died:

10 Oct 1983




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Actor                          
Selected Works:

Film:

The Ghoul - 1933
Friday the Thirteenth - 1933
Thunder in the Air - 1934
The King of Paris - 1934
Java Head - 1934
The Return of Bulldog Drummond - 1934
Things to Come - 1936
The Man Who Could Work Miracles - 1936
Thunder in the City - 1937
The Divorce of Lady X - 1938
South Riding - 1938
The Citadel - 1938
The Lion Has Wings - 1939
Q Planes - 1939
The Four Feathers - 1939
On the Night of the Fire - 1939
The Silver Fleet - 1943
School for Secrets - 1948
Anna Karenina - 1948
The Fallen Idol - 1948
The Heiress - 1949
Home at Seven - 1952
The Sound Barrier - 1952
The Holly and the Ivy - 1952
Richard III - 1955
Our Man in Havana - 1959
Oscar Wilde - 1960
Exodus - 1960
Long Day's Journey Into Night - 1962
The 300 Spartans - 1962
Woman of Straw - 1964
Dr Zhivago - 1965
The Wrong Box - 1966
Khartoum - 1966
Midas Run - 1969
Oh! What a Lovely War - 1969
Battle of Britain - 1969
The Bed-Sitting Room - 1969
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? - 1971
Lady Caroline Lamb - 1972
Tales from the Crypt - 1972
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - 1972
A Doll's House - 1973
O Lucky Man! - 1973
Rollerball - 1975
The Man in the Iron Mask - 1977
Jesus of Nazareth - 1977
Watership Down - 1978 - voice
Dragonslayer - 1981
Time Bandits - 1981
Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - 1984
Give My Regards to Broad Street - 1984                          
Mother Lydia Russell
Father Arthur Richardson
First wife 	Muriel Hewitt - 1924-1942
Second wife Meriel Smiley Forbes - 1944-1983                          
Ran the Old Vic company with Laurence Olivier.

Knighted in 1947.                          
Ralph's mother left his father and took him with her to Gloucester, where he was brought up in the Roman Catholic faith of his mother. Ralph's father and brothers were Quakers. His father supported them with a small allowance. Lydia Richardson wished Ralph to become a priest, and was an altar boy in Brighton, and was sent to the Xavierian College, but he ran away from it.