Ian Richardson
Birthday: 1934-04-07
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Biography: Ian William Richardson CBE (7 April 1934 – 9 February 2007) was a Scottish actor, best known for his portrayal of the Machiavellian Tory politician Francis Urquhart in the BBC's House of Cards trilogy. He was also a leading Shakespearean stage actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Richardson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
Brazil
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydr...
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M. Butterfly
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but...
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From Hell
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the R...
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Dark City
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish wor...
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Becoming Jane
Though young Jane Austen's financially strapped parents expect her to marry the nephew of wealthy La...
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Whoops Apocalypse
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrori...
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The Fourth Protocol
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the ...
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Twice Upon a Time
Alice d'Abanville and Louis Ruinard are two extraordinary personalities. They were the most striking...
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Hogfather
It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-...
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Joyeux Noel
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...
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A Knight in Camelot
Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a compute...
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An Ungentlemanly Act
Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of th...
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Incognito
Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and...
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The King and I
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many chil...
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B.A.P.S
Two wannabe Black American princesses aim to marry rich men, who will pay for their world's first co...
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Catherine the Great
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves ...
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The Treasure Seekers
Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially...
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Dirty Weekend
Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and general...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Ho...
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A Change of Place
Kim Jameson is a university professor while Kate Jameson - also known as Dominique, Kim’s twin siste...
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Charlie Muffin
Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in...
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The Master of Ballantrae
The Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 TV movie based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.[2] It...
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King of the Wind
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil a...
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Monsignor Quixote
Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a ...
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The Sign of Four
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the ...
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Burning Secret
While recuperating in a sanatorium in the mountains, a young boy becomes very close friends with an ...
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Memorial Memorial
A memorial of sorts to the plinth on St. Peter's Hill, Grantham, which stood empty for two years bef...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house ...
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Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle reveals the story behind Sherlock Holmes and his mysteries by telling about Dr. J...
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The Plot to Kill Hitler
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate A...
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Remember
Nicky Wells, a TV journalist who is renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the worlds most dange...
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The Canterville Ghost
'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, ...
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Year of the Comet
Year of the Comet is a 1992 romantic comedy adventure film about the pursuit of the most valuable bo...
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Man of La Mancha
In the 16th century, poet, playwright and part-time actor Miguel de Cervantes has been arrested, tog...
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Dæmos Rising
Trapped in an isolated cottage, Captain Cavendish thinks he is seeing ghosts. The only person who mi...
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Ike
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other warti...
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Gauguin the Savage
Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive se...
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Danton's Death
Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg...
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The Booze Cruise II: The Treasure Hunt
The Booze Cruise is a series of three feature length comedy dramas written for British television by...
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The Booze Cruise III: The Scattering
The gang return for their third adventure, this time on a trip to scatter Grace's mother's ashes on ...
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Cry Freedom
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against ap...
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All's Well That Ends Well
An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of ...
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As You Like It
One of the earliest hits for the newly established RSC, Michael Elliott’s sparkling version of Shake...
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The Winslow Boy
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents...
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3-D Halloween
Ghost hunters are on the trail of a supernatural phenomenon and legendary figures in Scotland. The f...
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Star Quality
Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical en...
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Nero
As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his...
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildensterm, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road t...
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continu...
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Blunt
Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the So...
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The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. Th...
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Churchill and the Generals
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during Wo...
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Gawain and the Green Knight
The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him....
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Sorry...
Two TV Plays by Vaclav Havel, one called 'Audience', and one called 'Private View'....
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Words Upon the Window Pane
In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella a...
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The Woman In White
Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose l...
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The Devil's Disciple
Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience...
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Marat/Sade
In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the pat...
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102 Dalmatians
Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleash...
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A Cotswold Death
A village cricket match on the lawn of a great country house - a traditional setting for the perfect...
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The Fifth Province
Timmy Sugrue is a persecuted guesthouse keeper and writer who lives with his mad mother in a very ra...
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The Life of Shakespeare
Dramatically presented and narrated by the late internationally renowned actor of stage and screen I...
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Salad Days
A boy, a girl, a tramp and a piano with the most amazing effect on people, find each other in a park...
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Savage Play
During a rugby tour of Britain and Ireland in 1888, a young New Zealander searches for his father wh...
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Foreign Affairs
Two couples find love and comfort in London. A reserved, but lonely aging American female college pr...
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Slimming Down
Mr. Shrigley, a small businessman dealing in office equipment, believes that the recession happens t...
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Passing Through
Is Richard the pub bore, or is he someone very intriguing? Arthur is a man of habit - four pints a n...
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