Ralph Richardson - biography

“Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.”

“Acting is the ability to dream on cue.”

“You’ve got to perform in a role hundreds of times.  In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.”

“My idea of a director is a chap who puts me in the middle of a stage and shines a bright light on me.”

“In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined.  But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience.  In other words we are continually changing the score.”

“The most precious things in speech are pauses.”

Ralph Richardson has appeared in the following films:
The Ghoul (1933)
Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
Thunder in the Air (1934)
The King of Paris (1934)
Java Head (1934)
The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934)
Bulldog Jack (1935)
Things to Come (1936)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
Thunder in the City (1937)
The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
South Riding (1938)
The Citadel (1938)
Q Planes (1939)
The Four Feathers (1939)
Smith (1939)
On the Night of the Fire (1939)
The Lion Has Wings (1939)
The Day Will Dawn (1942)
The Silver Fleet (1943)
School for Secrets (1946)
Anna Karenina (1948)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
The Heiress (1949)
Outcast of the Islands (1952)
Home at Seven (1952)
The Sound Barrier (1952)
The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
Richard III (1955)
Smiley (1956)
The Passionate Stranger (1957)
Our Man in Havana (1959)
Oscar Wilde (1960)
Exodus (1960)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)
The 300 Spartans (1962)
Woman of Straw (1964)
Campanadas a medianoche (1965)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Wrong Box (1966)
Khartoum (1966)
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Midas Run (1969)
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
Battle of Britain (1969)
The Looking Glass War (1969)
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
Eagle in a Cage (1972)
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
A Doll’s House (1973)
O Lucky Man! (1973)
Rollerball (1975)
Watership Down (1978)
Dragonslayer (1981)
Time Bandits (1981)
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
Invitation to the Wedding (1985)