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Also Known As Sir Ralph David Richardson
Born December 19, 1902 • Cheltenham • England
Died October 10, 1983 (aged 80) • London • England
Notable Works “Home at Seven”

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Henry IV, Part 1
Ralph Richardson as Tiresias gestures toward Laurence Olivier as Oedipus on stage in the Old Vic Theatre Company's 1945-1946 production of Sophocles' Oedipus.
Ralph Richardson as Prospero in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Tempest, holding a staff and reading from a large book on a stage with dramatic props and a rocky backdrop.
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Hamlet (1948)
Laurence Olivier
British actor, director, writer, and producer
Schlesinger, John
John Schlesinger
English film director
Sir Ian McKellen smiling, wearing a dark wide-brimmed hat and patterned scarf at the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim in London.
Ian McKellen
British actor
Alec Guinness as Macbeth
Alec Guinness
British actor
Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
English actor, director, writer, and humanitarian
Noël Coward
Noël Coward
English playwright, actor, and composer
John Gielgud
John Gielgud
British actor and director
Robert Shaw and Paul Scofield in historical costumes sit outdoors under a tree in a scene from the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons.
Robert Shaw
British actor, novelist and playwright
Anthony Quayle as King Saul in the television movie The Story of David (1976).
Sir Anthony Quayle
British actor
Leslie Howard sits with his arms crossed on the back of a chair, looking thoughtfully to the side, in a black-and-white promotional portrait from 1939.
Leslie Howard
British actor
Susannah York smiles while posing outdoors in a striped dress and a fur-lined coat, her hair in a shoulder-length bob, in a black and white photo circa 1965.
Susannah York
British actress
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Robert Morley
English actor
Helen Mirren smiles on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, wearing a yellow gown and an ornate emerald and diamond necklace with matching earrings.
Helen Mirren
British actress
Kevin Spacey, wearing a tuxedo, stands onstage smiling and speaking at a microphone during the 2017 British Academy Britannia Awards in Beverly Hills.
Kevin Spacey
American actor
Portrait of Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins looking directly at the camera, wearing a dark jacket with a short beard and closely cropped hair.
Anthony Hopkins
Welsh actor
Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall, wearing a black cap and dark fur-trimmed cloak, standing against a plain background.
Mark Rylance
British actor and director
Ben Elton
Ben Elton
British actor, writer, and comedian
Kenneth Branagh wearing a white shirt and dark jacket, posing against a blue background.
Kenneth Branagh
British actor, director, and writer
Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent
British actor
Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes
English actor

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