Ralph Richardson Movies

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

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...

A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin...

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

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate...

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.

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

Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John...

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

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...

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

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...

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

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and...

Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.

John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the...

Adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s play.

Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

A behind the scenes look at the making of the 1973 film “O Lucky Man!"

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."