Ralph Richardson Movies

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

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