Ralph Richardson Movies

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to...

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

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

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

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...

'No Man's Land' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this 1978, TV adaptation, a seedy poet shows up at the...

Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young...

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.

Adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s play.

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

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but...

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

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

World War II propaganda film.

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...

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...

The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer,...

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

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

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."