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Richard Wordsworth is a Actor British born on 19 january 1915 at Halesowen (United-kingdom)
Richard Wordsworth (19 January 1915 – 21 November 1993) was an English character actor. He was the great-great-grandson of the poet William Wordsworth.
As a young man he followed in the footsteps of his clergyman father, reading Divinity at Cambridge University. But he quickly found acting more to his taste and, after performing at the Cambridge Footlights, he decided to study drama at the Embassy School of Acting in London.
This proved an excellent choice. He quickly developed a talent for character acting which sustained him and his family through a long and richly varied career. In classical theatre he worked with John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Anthony Quayle and Richard Burton. After successful Shakespearian seasons at the Old Vic and Stratford-upon-Avon, he starred in the musical Lock Up Your Daughters which launched the Mermaid Theatre in London. He also found success as Captain Hook in several Christmas productions of Peter Pan. Later he would tour Australia as Fagin in the musical Oliver which he also produced.
His film career included a standout performance as the monstrous astronaut in The Quatermass Xperiment, a highly regarded cult film which launched Hammer Horror Films. Later he played a scene as a sinister taxidermist with Jimmy Stewart (whom he described as 'a perfect gentleman') in Alfred Hitchcock's second version of The Man Who Knew Too Much. He also played leading parts in British TV dramas such as Huntingtower and The Tripods.
In the final decades of his life he developed The Bliss of Solitude a one-man tribute to his great ancestor with which he toured England, Scotland and the United States. He also founded the Wordsworth Summer School - a week of poetry, lectures and walks in his beloved English Lake District.
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Birth name Richard Curwen Wordsworth
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 19 january 1915 at Halesowen (United-kingdom)
Death 21 november 1993 (at 78 years) at Kendal (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 19 january 1915 at Halesowen (United-kingdom)
Death 21 november 1993 (at 78 years) at Kendal (United-kingdom)
As a young man he followed in the footsteps of his clergyman father, reading Divinity at Cambridge University. But he quickly found acting more to his taste and, after performing at the Cambridge Footlights, he decided to study drama at the Embassy School of Acting in London.
This proved an excellent choice. He quickly developed a talent for character acting which sustained him and his family through a long and richly varied career. In classical theatre he worked with John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Anthony Quayle and Richard Burton. After successful Shakespearian seasons at the Old Vic and Stratford-upon-Avon, he starred in the musical Lock Up Your Daughters which launched the Mermaid Theatre in London. He also found success as Captain Hook in several Christmas productions of Peter Pan. Later he would tour Australia as Fagin in the musical Oliver which he also produced.
His film career included a standout performance as the monstrous astronaut in The Quatermass Xperiment, a highly regarded cult film which launched Hammer Horror Films. Later he played a scene as a sinister taxidermist with Jimmy Stewart (whom he described as 'a perfect gentleman') in Alfred Hitchcock's second version of The Man Who Knew Too Much. He also played leading parts in British TV dramas such as Huntingtower and The Tripods.
In the final decades of his life he developed The Bliss of Solitude a one-man tribute to his great ancestor with which he toured England, Scotland and the United States. He also founded the Wordsworth Summer School - a week of poetry, lectures and walks in his beloved English Lake District.
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Song of Norway (1970)
, 2h18Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Harry Secombe, Robert Morley, Edward G. Robinson, Oskar Homolka
Roles Hans Christian Andersen
Rating42%
Lock Up Your Daughters (1969)
, 1h42Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Glynis Johns, Ian Bannen, Tom Bell, Jim Dale
Roles Coupler
Rating50%
A bawdy yarn concerning three sex-starved sailors on leave and on the rampage in a British town.
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
, 1h21Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Desmond Llewelyn, Anthony Dawson, Michael Ripper
Roles The Beggar
Rating64%
The story is set in 18th Century Spain. A beggar is imprisoned by a cruel marques after making inappropriate remarks at the nobleman's wedding. The beggar is forgotten, and survives another fifteen years. His sole human contact is with the jailer and his beautiful mute daughter (Yvonne Romain). The aging, decrepit Marques makes advances on the jailer's daughter while she is cleaning his room. When she refuses him, the Marques has her thrown into the dungeon with the beggar. The beggar, driven mad by his long confinement, rapes her and then dies.
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
, 1h29Directed by Terence Fisher, Francis Matthews
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Cyberpunk films
Actors Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunyce Gayson, Lionel Jeffries, John Welch (Welsh), Richard Wordsworth
Roles Up Patient
Rating66%
Years later, Frankenstein, now going by the alias of Dr. Stein, has become a successful physician in Carlsbruck, catering to the wealthy while also attending to the poor in a paupers' hospital. Dr. Hans Kleve, a junior member of the medical council, recognises him and blackmails him into allowing him to become his apprentice.
The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
, 1h22Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Carl Möhner, André Morell, Edward Underdown, Walter Fitzgerald, Michael Goodliffe, Phil Brown
Roles Dr. Robert Keiller
Rating64%
As the Pacific War draws to an end, the commandant of the Blood Island prisoner-of-war camp has let it be known that should Japan surrender, he will order the massacre of the entire captive population. When the prisoners hear through underground sources that Japan has indeed surrendered, they mobilise themselves to try to prevent the news reaching the commandant. Colonel Lambert (Morell), the authoritarian self-appointed leader of the prisoners, deems that they must sabotage communications between the camp and the outside world, and arm themselves in however makeshift a way in readiness for a final showdown.
Time Without Pity (1957)
, 1h25Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays
Actors Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Peter Cushing, Alec McCowen, Lois Maxwell
Roles Maxwell - the MP
Rating67%
David Graham, a recovering alcoholic, returns to England with only 24 hours to save his son, Alec, from hanging for the murder of Alec's girlfriend, Jenny Cole. A neglectful, absentee father who has missed the entire trial while he was in rehab in Canada, Graham discovers his son, awaiting execution, at first refuses to even see him and when he does, to evince any hope for his case, let alone affection for his father.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
, 2hDirected by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Spy films, Films about families, Political films
Actors James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Truman
Roles Ambrose Chappell Jr. (uncredited)
Rating74%
An American family—Dr. Benjamin "Ben" McKenna (James Stewart), his wife, popular singer Josephine Conway "Jo" McKenna (Doris Day), and their son Henry "Hank" McKenna (Christopher Olsen)--are vacationing in Morocco. Traveling from Casablanca to Marrakesh, they meet Frenchman Louis Bernard (Daniel Gelin), who seems friendly, but Jo is suspicious of his many questions and evasive answers and thinks that he is hiding something. Louis offers to take the McKennas out to dinner but cancels when a sinister-looking man knocks at the McKennas' hotel-room door claiming to be looking for another guest's room. Later, at a local restaurant, the McKennas meet English couple Lucy (Brenda De Banzie) and Edward Drayton (Bernard Miles), who strike up a conversation with the McKennas, who are surprised to see Bernard arrive and sit at another table apparently ignoring them.
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
, 1h22Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Dame Thora Hird, Lionel Jeffries
Roles Victor Carroon
Rating65%
The British Rocket Group, headed by the taciturn Professor Bernard Quatermass, launches its first manned rocket into space. Shortly thereafter, all contact is lost with the rocket and its three crew: Carroon, Reichenheim, and Green. The large rocket later returns to Earth, crashing into an English country field.