Ralph Richardson
Birthday:
19 December 1902, Tivoli Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Birth Name:
Ralph David Richardson
Height:
183 cm
Sir Ralph Richardson was one of the greatest actors of the 20th Century English-language theater, ascending to the height of his profession in the mid-1930s when he became a star in London's West End. He became the first actor of his generation to be knighted. He became Sir Ralph in 1947, and was quickly followed Laurence Olivier in 1948, and ...
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Sir Ralph Richardson was one of the greatest actors of the 20th Century English-language theater, ascending to the height of his profession in the mid-1930s when he became a star in London's West End. He became the first actor of his generation to be knighted. He became Sir Ralph in 1947, and was quickly followed Laurence Olivier in 1948, and then by John Gielgud in 1953. Co-stars and friends, the three theatrical knights were considered the greatest English actors of their generation, primarily for their mastery of the Shakespearean canon. They occupied the height of the British acting pantheon in the post-World War II years. Show less «
Acting on the screen is like acting under a microscope. The slightest movement becomes a gesture and therefore the discipline has to be very...Show more »
Acting on the screen is like acting under a microscope. The slightest movement becomes a gesture and therefore the discipline has to be very severe. Show less «
I don't like my face at all. It's always been a great drawback to me.
I don't like my face at all. It's always been a great drawback to me.
I've never been one of those stage chaps who scoff at films. I think they're a marvellous medium, and are to the stage what engravings are t...Show more »
I've never been one of those stage chaps who scoff at films. I think they're a marvellous medium, and are to the stage what engravings are to paintings. Show less «
My idea of a director is a chap who puts me in the middle of a stage and shines a bright light on me.
My idea of a director is a chap who puts me in the middle of a stage and shines a bright light on me.
The art of acting lies in keeping people from coughing.
The art of acting lies in keeping people from coughing.
Actors never retire; they just get offered fewer parts.
Actors never retire; they just get offered fewer parts.
Film is a wonderful medium and I love it, but I find that I cannot increase my talent by working in pictures, any more than a painter can do...Show more »
Film is a wonderful medium and I love it, but I find that I cannot increase my talent by working in pictures, any more than a painter can do so by increasing the size of his brush. Show less «
I have put on so many make-ups that sometimes I have feared that when I go to wipe it off there will be nobody left underneath.
I have put on so many make-ups that sometimes I have feared that when I go to wipe it off there will be nobody left underneath.
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
Did you ever have a vision of the place we came from before we were born? I did, when I was about three years old. I used to dream about it....Show more »
Did you ever have a vision of the place we came from before we were born? I did, when I was about three years old. I used to dream about it. I even drew pictures of it. It looked rather like Mexico. Show less «
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Supreme Being
Chief Rabbit
Lord Greystoke
Dr. Austin Sloper
Baines
Aleksandr Gromeko
