lph Richardson (19021983) was an English actor who played more than

sixty film roles and, along with his contemporaries John

Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th
century. In 1931 he joined the Old Vic, playing
mostlyShakespearean roles. He led the company the following season,
succeeding Gielgud, who had taught him much about stage technique.
After he left the company, a series of leading roles took him to stardom in
the West End and onBroadway. In the 1940s, Richardson was the codirector of the Old Vic company. He and Olivier led the company to
Europe and Broadway in 1945 and 1946. In the 1950s, in the West End
and occasionally on tour, Richardson played in modern and classic works
including The Heiress,Home at Seven and Three Sisters. Richardson was
cast in leading roles in British and American films including Things to
Come in the 1930s,The Fallen Idol and The Heiress in the 1940s,
and Long Day's Journey into Night and Doctor Zhivago in the 1960s. He
received nominations and awards in the UK, Europe and the US for his
stage and screen work from 1948 until his sudden death at the age of
eighty, and earned a posthumous Academy Award nomination for his final
film, Greystoke. (Full article...)
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