Ralph Richardson — Actor (26)
Things to Come (1936) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB
Things to Come
director: William Cameron Menzies actor: Raymond Massey / Edward Chapman
other title: La vita futura / A vida futura
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
The Holly and the Ivy (1952) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb
The Holly and the Ivy
director: George More O'Ferrall actor: Ralph Richardson / Celia Johnson
other title: 圣诞述异
An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.
Time Bandits (1981) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Time Bandits
director: Terry Gilliam actor: Craig Warnock / David Rappaport
other title: I banditi del tempo / Os Ladrões do Tempo
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 purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
Battleship (2012) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB
Battleship
director: Peter Berg actor: Taylor Kitsch / Tadanobu Asano
other title: Battleship: Batalha Naval / 超级战舰
When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
director: Hugh Hudson actor: Ralph Richardson / Ian Holm
other title: Greystoke - La leggenda di Tarzan, il signore delle scimmie / Greystoke: Beretningen om Tarzan, abernes konge
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
Doctor Zhivago (1965) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Doctor Zhivago
director: David Lean actor: Omar Sharif / Julie Christie
other title: Il dottor Zivago / Doktor Zhivago
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 during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Watership Down (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
Watership Down
director: Martin Rosen actor: John Hurt / Richard Briers
other title: La collina dei conigli / Kaninbjerget
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 search of a safe new haven.
The Four Feathers (1939) [Movie] Douban NeoDB
The Four Feathers
director: 佐尔坦·科达 actor: John Clements / Ralph Richardson
other title: 四片羽毛 / 四羽毛
费弗森将军因儿子哈瑞,幼年只喜好诗词,怕有辱家族声誉,托好友苏顿大夫照应。
将军死后,哈瑞要求解除军职,因英埃联军将对苏丹用兵,被同伴视为懦夫,寄白羽毛羞辱他,但英军对苏丹用兵并不顺利,哈瑞赴埃及要求医生改容为当地土著,潜入前线,起原军团被回民打败,同伴非殉职即被俘入狱,哈瑞救好友杜伦斯上尉回英国阵地而被捕,旋即逃狱到哈土木营救同伴,英军终来到哈土木,哈瑞策动监狱暴动,控制一边城墙,英军收复哈土木,哈瑞成为大英雄。
Rollerball (1975) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Rollerball
director: Norman Jewison actor: James Caan / John Houseman
other title: Rollerball - Os Gladiadores do Século XXI
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 those who want him out of the game.
The Movie Orgy (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Movie Orgy
director: Joe Dante actor: Goodman Ace / Jane Ace
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) [TV] TMDB
Jesus of Nazareth
director: Franco Zeffirelli actor: Robert Powell / Olivia Hussey
other title: Gesù di Nazareth / Jesus von Nazareth
Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Long Day's Journey Into Night
other title: Il lungo viaggio verso la notte / Longa Viagem para a Noite
Over the course of one foggy day in August 1912, a retired Irish theater actor grapples with the morphine addiction of his unbalanced wife, debauchery of his older son, and sickness of the youngest son as past guilts, repressed anger, and deep-seated regrets slowly come boiling out, threatening to destroy the family.
Dragonslayer (1981) [Movie] IMDb
Dragonslayer
director: Matthew Robbins actor: Peter MacNicol / Caitlin Clarke
other title: Il drago del lago di fuoco / Helten fra fortidens mørke
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 King himself made with the dragon to protect his kingdom.
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
director: Curtis Harrington actor: Shelley Winters / Mark Lester
other title: Chi giace nella culla della zia Ruth? / Wer hat Tante Ruth angezündet
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
No Man's Land [Performance] Douban NeoDB
No Man's Land
genre: theater playwright: Harold Pinter
other title: 无人之境 / 无人之地 director: Peter Hall / David Leveaux actor: John Gielgud / Ralph Richardson / Michael Kitchen / Terence Rigby / Paul Eddington
The first act opens with Hirst's offering a drink to Spooner: "As it is?" – that is, neat (UK) or straight (U.S.) – and Spooner's reply: "As it is, yes please, absolutely as it is" (15). During the first act, Spooner claims to be a fellow poet and to have known his more illustrious literary host and mutual acquaintances and relationships in the past. Toward the end of act one, Hirst's keepers (quasi-body guards) "vagabond cock" Foster and Briggs seek to fend off the self-insinuating Spooner, leading Hirst "out of the room (52) and away from him. The act ends with a "Blackout" – visually demonstrating Foster's taunt: "Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this. ... He turns the light out" (53).
During Act Two, in his increasingly inebriated state, Hirst may mistake or feign recognition of Spooner as an Oxbridge classmate from the 1930s, an apparently false impression which Spooner nevertheless encourages (68–78), leading both of them into a series of increasingly questionable reminiscences, which Hirst finally and abruptly undercuts: "This is outrageous! Who are you? What are you doing in my house?" going on to accuse Spooner of being an impostor: "You are clearly a lout. The Charles Wetherby I knew was a gentleman. I see a figure reduced. I am sorry for you. Where is the moral ardour that sustained you once? Gone down the hatch." – allusively and both wistfully and comically combining the clichés "Gone with the wind" and "Down the hatch," after which, Briggs "enters, pours whisky and soda, gives it to" Hirst, who "looks at it" and then says, "Down the hatch. Right down the hatch. (He drinks.)" (78). Hirst proclaims, "Let us change the subject. Pause. For the last time." (91), but immediately asks, "What have I said?" That leads the characters to debate what Hirst's phrase for the last time precisely "means" (91–94), leaving all of them, according to Spooner, "in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but which remains forever icy and silent." Following the illustrative "Silence", Hirst utters the play's final words and provides its final action: "I'll drink to that" (95): "He drinks," paralleling the opening words of the first act ("As it comes?"), and the play ends, ambiguously, with a "SLOW FADE" of lights (95).
The Bed Sitting Room (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Bed Sitting Room
director: Richard Lester actor: Ralph Richardson / Rita Tushingham
other title: Mutazioni / Danach
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
Friday the Thirteenth (1933) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Friday the Thirteenth
director: Victor Saville actor: Jessie Matthews / Ralph Richardson
other title: Vendredi 13
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 as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
director: Lothar Mendes actor: Roland Young / Ralph Richardson
other title: L'uomo dei miracoli / Der Mann, der die Welt verändern wollte
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.