Ralph Richardson Movies

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

A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.

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

Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat...

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

Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of...

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

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,...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s play.

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

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...

A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of legendary screen and stage actor/director Laurence Olivier.

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."