Ralph Richardson Movies

Outcast of the Islands

71/100

A man occupies a position of trust with a merchant in an East Asian port. He's sacked when he's caught stealing, but he pretends to commit suicide, and a Captain he befriended agrees to take him to a secret trading post.

Clouds Over Europe

66/100

A quirky British Secret Service Agent named Major Hammond tries to discover who is using a secret weapon to steal experimental planes.

The Holly and the Ivy

79/100

A heartwarming tale of an English minister and his family reunited at Christmas time. Their story includes a remembrance of their WWII trials

Witness for the Prosecution

73/100

Leonard Vole is accused of murdering an elderly rich woman and the only alibi to him depends on his wife.

The Lion Has Wings

59/100

Alexander Korda's bit for the British war effort shows the world both at peace and on the verge of Nazi domination. Spliced together to form a documentary-style movie of both newsreel and ... See full summary »

The Silver Fleet

69/100

Jaap van Leyden (Sir Ralph Richardson) is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later, a ... See full summary »

Oscar Wilde

69/100

Oscar Wilde's homosexuality is exposed when he tries to defend himself against his lover's father.

The Avengers

61/100

Horse race tipster and journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Norway his boat is attacked by a German ... See full summary »

Alias Bulldog Drummond

65/100

Bulldog Drummond is injured when his sabotaged car crashes and Jack Pennington agrees to masquerade as the sleuth. He is enlisted to help Ann Manders find her jeweler grandfather who has ... See full summary »

Murder on Monday

71/100

David Preston, a bank official goes missing for twenty-four hours and has no memory of the lost time, but when he learns that the steward of his local club has implicated him in a robbery, ... See full summary »

Hedda Gabler

73/100

A scheming woman marries a nice but dimwitted intellectual out of convenience. She hears that her old lover is back in town. She decides to destroy his life, jealous of his love affair with another.

Smiley

69/100

Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father Bill is a poor drover who is often away ... See full summary »

The Return of Bulldog Drummond

58/100

Drummond leads a black-shirted platoon of men from his former unit against foreign interlopers trying to pull England into dangerous overseas entanglements.

The Volunteer

63/100

After a masterful performance as Othello in a London theater, Ralph Richardson is asked for an autograph by Fred, his dresser. A short while later, Fred has joined the Fleet Air Arm (Fly ... See full summary »

Secret Flight

67/100

During World War II, on the eve of the Battle of Britain, British scientists develop the first radar systems to be employed against the German Luftwaffe.

Eagle in a Cage

62/100

1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon. High brow.

Midas Run

56/100

A veteran Secret Service Agent from Britain hijacks a government shipment of fifteen million dollars of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.

South Riding

69/100

"Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, ... See full summary »

A Novel Affair

65/100

A chauffeur gets the wrong idea when he reads his lady boss's erotic novel.

Invitation to the Wedding

56/100

During a wedding rehearsal, an English bride-to-be and an American who was just standing in for the broom accidentally get married. She doesn't mind the idea at first, but things get bumpy very soon.

The Fugitive

69/100

A barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder.

No Man's Land

89/100

In this TV adaptation of the Harold Pinter classic, a seedy poet (Gielgud) shows up at the home of a rich writer (Richardson) and they start reminiscing about the "past."

The Largest Theatre in the World: Heart to Heart

79/100

A TV interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.

Everyman

Othello

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.