Ralph Richardson — Actor (48)

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
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William Sterling actor: Rodney Bewes / Fiona Fullerton …
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.

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Our Man in Havana (1960)
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Carol Reed actor: Alec Guinness / Burl Ives …
other title: Il nostro agente all'Avana / Vor mand i Havana …
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.

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The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
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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.

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Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
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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.

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The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
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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.

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The Ghoul (1933)
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other title: Der Ghul / El resucitado …
British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave.

Performance

No Man's Land
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Harold Pinter genre: theater
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).

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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
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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.

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Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
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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.

TV

Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
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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.

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The Movie Orgy (1968)
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Joe Dante actor: Andy Devine / Goodman 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.

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Rollerball (1975)
Rollerball
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.

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The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
The Man in the Iron Mask
other title: L'uomo dalla maschera di ferro / Manden med jernmasken …
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.

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Watership Down (1978)
Watership Down
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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.

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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
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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.