Ralph Richardson Movies

David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

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

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen...

Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas...

Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father...

An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.

World War II propaganda film.

While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to...

In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles...

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into...

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

Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity...

Adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s play.

When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a...

Through the pattern of this film a ‘Test’ at Lord’s runs like a thread and a broadcast commentary on the match is imposed on the...

Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame...

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."