Movies by Ralph Richardson
As part of the cast:
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Ian Holm, Andie MacDowell …
Directed by: Hugh Hudson
Tarzan (Christopher Lambert), the seventh Earl of Greystoke, is raised by apes after he's lost in the African jungle. An explorer discovers the adult Tarzan, reacquaints him with the…
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Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
Cast: Paul McCartney, Bryan Brown, Ringo Starr …
Directed by: Peter Webber
Paul McCartney plays to type as a middle-aged rock star in this unusual film that showcases some of the Beatles hits and songs he recorded during his solo venture. Ringo Starr and Linda…
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Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Beau Bridges …
Directed by: Alan Gibson
When Emily French (Patricia Leslie) turns up dead, all circumstantial evidence points to Leonard Stephen Vole (Beau Bridges), with whom Emily was enamored. In comes the cantankerous Sir…
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Time Bandits (1981)
Cast: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Ian Holm …
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
In director Terry Gilliam's visually outrageous fairy tale, a boy escapes from his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarfs. On their journey, they visit Napoleon,…
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Dragonslayer (1981)
Cast: Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson …
Directed by: Matthew Robbins
In this thrilling fantasy adventure, a sorcerer's apprentice named Galen (voiced by Peter MacNicol) faces his biggest battle yet: A fire-breathing dragon wreaking havoc in the village…
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Watership Down (1978)
Cast: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Ralph Richardson …
Directed by: Martin Rosen
Despite being animated, John Rosen's adaptation of Richard Adams's best-selling novel is a serious, disturbing and often violent tale about a society of rabbits that flees its…
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A Doll's House (1973)
Cast: Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Richardson …
Directed by: Patrick Garland
A young bride reexamines her outwardly perfect life and marriage when her husband takes ill. She ends up forging her father's signature on a bank loan and becomes the victim of…
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O Lucky Man! (1973)
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts …
Directed by: Lindsay Anderson
This surreal 1970s musical avant-garde allegory for the evils of capitalism sees ambitious young coffee salesman Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) plying his trade and reveling in his many…
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
Cast: Fiona Fullerton, Robert Helpmann, Peter Sellers …
Directed by: William Sterling
An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of…
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Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Cast: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice …
Directed by: Freddie Francis
When a sightseeing trip leads them astray, a group of tourists (including the glamorous Joan Collins) find themselves lost in an underground labyrinth where they come face to face with a monk…
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What's the Matter with Helen? / Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Agnes Moorehead …
Directed by: Curtis Harrington
What's The Matter With Helen?: Chased by threatening telephone calls, the mothers of two teenage murderers move to Hollywood and open a kids' dance school. But their idyllic new…
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Home (1971)
Cast: Warren Clarke, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson …
Directed by: Lindsay Anderson
The delusions and pretentions people hold are highlighted in this film that tells the story of Harry (John Gielgud) and Jack (Ralph Richardson), two quirky old men who frequent what seems to…
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Battle of Britain (1969)
Cast: Harry Andrews, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine …
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
This star-studded epic re-creates the 1940 air battle that took place in the skies over England. Surprised and outgunned, Britain's R.A.F. used determination and guile to fend off a…
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The Looking Glass War (1969)
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson …
Directed by: Frank Pierson
When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he's recruited to infiltrate a missile installation outside of…
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Twelfth Night (1969)
Cast: Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson, Joan Plowright …
Directed by: John Dexter, John Sichel
When Viola is shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria, she's separated from her twin brother, Sebastian, and forced to pose as a member of the opposite sex to make her way in a strange new…
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The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
Cast: Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook …
Directed by: Richard Lester
This surrealist gem from director Richard Lester features an all-star cast in a series of mordant sketches about the struggles of several stereotypical British personalities who survive a…
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Khartoum (1966)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson …
Directed by: Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon
In this epic war drama highlighting the British Army's travails in North Africa in 1883, Gen. Charles "Chinese" Gordon leads the defense of the Sudanese garrison against a Muslim…
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Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin …
Directed by: David Lean
A young physician (Omar Sharif) and his beautiful mistress (Julie Christie) get swept up in the danger and drama of the Bolshevik Revolution in this Oscar-winning epic based on the classic…
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Woman of Straw (1964)
Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson …
Directed by: Basil Dearden
When he learns that his cruel but fantastically wealthy uncle Charles (Ralph Richardson) intends to deny him an inheritance, greedy Anthony Richmond (Sean Connery) hatches a scheme with the…
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Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
This 1962 production of Eugene O'Neill's play stars the magnificent Katharine Hepburn (whose work earned her an Academy Award nomination) as Mary Tyrone, the drug-addicted matriarch…
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The 300 Spartans (1962)
Cast: Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker …
Directed by: Rudolph Maté
A tiny cadre of Greek warriors from Sparta defend a mountain pass at Thermopylae against the overwhelming invasion of a vicious Persian Army. Led by King Leonidis, the Spartans' army…
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Exodus (1960)
Cast: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson …
Directed by: Otto Preminger
Find a comfy seat for this epic (nearly 4-hour) tale about the founding of Israel. Directed by Otto Preminger and starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb and Sal Mineo, Exodus is…
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Our Man in Havana (1959)
Cast: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara …
Directed by: Carol Reed
Inspired by Cold War paranoia, author Graham Greene penned this cynical comedy directed by Carol Reed about vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness), whose territory happens to be…
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Richard III (1955)
Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier …
Directed by: Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier stars as England's storied ruling monarch in one of Shakespeare's greatest historical drama. In a Machiavellian masterstroke, Richard III plays relatives against…
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Breaking the Sound Barrier (1952)
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick …
Directed by: David Lean
World War II pilot Tony (Nigel Patrick) marries into the family of wealthy airplane designer John Ridgefield (Ralph Richardson), whose near-reckless pursuit of breaking the sound barrier…
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The Heiress (1949)
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson …
Directed by: William Wyler
Dull and plain Catherine (Olivia de Havilland) lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper (Ralph Richardson), in 1840s New York. Her days are empty -- filled with little more than…
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Anna Karenina (1948)
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Kieron Moore, Ralph Richardson …
Directed by: Julien Duvivier
Silver-screen luminary Vivien Leigh stars as the titular 19th-century Russian noblewoman wed to a stuffy Czarist bureaucrat (Ralph Richardson). When a debonair and daring army officer sweeps…
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The Fallen Idol (1948)
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel …
Directed by: Carol Reed
Philippe (Bobby Henrey), a diplomat's son, worships the household butler, Baines (Ralph Richardson), who's regaled the boy with tales of his life's adventures. So, when his…
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The Four Feathers (1939)
Cast: John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith …
Directed by: Zoltan Korda
The son and son-in-law of career military men, Harry (John Clements) is unsure whether he's cut out for battle and quits his post. But after he's labeled a coward, he disguises…
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1937)
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Roland Young, Sophie Stewart …
Directed by: Lothar Mendes
When angels decide to test human nature, everyman George McWhirter Fotheringay (Roland Young) is suddenly given the power to perform miracles. As George uses his gift and tries to create his…
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Things to Come (1936)
Cast: Raymod Massey, Ralph Richardson, Margueretta Scott …
Directed by: William Cameron Menzies
After decades of world war and a plague that wiped out much of the population, mankind struggles to rebuild its once-great civilization. Progress is at last being made ... until the eve of a…
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Bulldog Jack (1935)
Cast: Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson …
Directed by: Walter Forde
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph…
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The Ghoul (1933)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger …
Directed by: T. Hayes Hunter
Professor Morlant (Boris Karloff), a British Egyptologist, finds a magic jewel in the tomb of an Oriental idol. The talisman is supposed to grant immortality to those who are buried with it.…
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The Love Trap / Directed by William Wyler (1929)
Cast: Laura La Plante, Neil Hamilton, Robert Ellis …
Directed by: William Wyler, Aviva Slesin
William Wyler's romantic comedy about a dancer who falls in love with a rich young man (despite his family's objections) -- one of the earliest movies to use sound -- stars Laura…