Ralph Richardson — Actor (41)
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The Passionate Stranger (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Passionate Stranger
director: Muriel Box actor: Ralph Richardson / Margaret Leighton …
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
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Java Head (1934) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Java Head
director: Thorold Dickinson / J. Walter Ruben actor: Elizabeth Allan / Anna May Wong …
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, is in love with a local girl, but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage, he returns with a very exotic, noble Chinese wife, which scandalizes the conservative town. His other son, a "landlubber", seeks to convert to steamships, to the disgust of his father. Even worse, he is secretly dealing in contraband.
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Hedda Gabler (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Hedda Gabler
director: Alex Segal actor: Ingrid Bergman / Michael Redgrave …
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 name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young couple, However, the arrival of cleaned up ex-lover Eilert threatens to destroy everything.
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The Sound Barrier (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Sound Barrier
director: David Lean actor: Ralph Richardson / Ann Todd …
other title: Ali del futuro / Gennem lydmuren …
A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service.
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Anna Karenina (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Anna Karenina
director: Julien Duvivier actor: Vivien Leigh / Ralph Richardson …
other title: Anna Karénine / Ana Karenina
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
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The Citadel (1938) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Citadel
director: King Vidor actor: Robert Donat / Rosalind Russell …
other title: La cittadella / Die Zitadelle …
Young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor Andrew Manson arrives in Wales and takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does poorly, but when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
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Q Planes (1939) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Q Planes
director: Tim Whelan / Arthur B. Woods actor: Ralph Richardson / Laurence Olivier …
other title: Ali che non tornano / Testflug QE 97 …
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
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The 300 Spartans (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The 300 Spartans
director: Rudolph Maté actor: Richard Egan / Ralph Richardson …
other title: L'eroe di Sparta / Os 300 Espartanos …
The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidis, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkably small number of Greek Sparta to victory over an invading Persian army led by evil King Xerxes that was thought to number over 25,000. This spectacular conflict gave the Grecians enough time to organize a force to ultimately repel the Persians, and thus change the course of Western civilization.
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Midas Run (1969) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Midas Run
director: Alf Kjellin actor: Richard Crenna / Anne Heywood …
other title: Gestatten, das sind meine Kohlen! / La huida de Midas …
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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Bulldog Jack (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bulldog Jack
director: Walter Forde actor: Jack Hulbert / Fay Wray …
other title: Alias Bulldog Drummond
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 Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum. This comedic 1930s mystery features daring rescues, intense fistfights and an exciting edge-of-your seat finale aboard a runaway train.
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Richard III (1955) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Richard III
director: Laurence Olivier actor: Laurence Olivier / Cedric Hardwicke …
other title: Riccardo III / Richard den Tredje …
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
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A Doll's House (1973) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Doll's House
director: 帕特里克·加兰 actor: Claire Bloom / Anthony Hopkins …
other title: 玩偶之家 / 傀儡家庭 …
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 lives in fear of her husband finding out, and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But, when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
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Charlie Muffin (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Charlie Muffin
director: Jack Gold actor: David Hemmings / Jennie Linden …
other title: L'abbraccio dell'orso / A Deadly Game
Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas takes over and wants Charlie out. But then a high-ranking Soviet spy-master hints that he wants to defect, and both British Intelligence and the CIA want him and will do anything to get him. Charlie may be the only man who can bring the defection off successfully, but is the whole thing an elaborate set-up? And when your so-called allies are stabbing each other and you in the back to get this prize, whom can Charlie trust on either side?
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Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Oh! What a Lovely War
director: Richard Attenborough actor: Laurence Olivier / Vanessa Redgrave …
other title: Oh, che bella guerra! / Viva a Guerra! …
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
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The Fallen Idol (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
The Fallen Idol
director: Carol Reed actor: Ralph Richardson / Michèle Morgan …
other title: Idolo infranto / Kleines Herz in Not …
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
director: William Sterling actor: Fiona Fullerton / Rodney Bewes …
other title: Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie / Alice im Wunderland …
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 bizarre characters.