Ralph Richardson Movies

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...

Documentary about the famed Hollywood director.

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...

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

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

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...

World War II propaganda film.

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...

'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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s play.

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

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

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."