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Richard Ainley

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Years active
  
1936-1943

Spouse
  
Ethel Glendinning

Role
  
Film actor


Name
  
Richard Ainley

Relatives
  
Henry Ainley (father)

Parents
  
Henry Ainley

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Born
  
22 December 1910 (
1910-12-22
)
Stanmore, Middlesex, England

Died
  
May 18, 1967, London, United Kingdom

Siblings
  
Anthony Ainley, Timothy Ainley, Henry T Ainley, Sam Ainley, Henrietta Riddle

Movies
  
I Dood It, Three Hearts for Julia, Shining Victory, Here Comes Happiness, Singapore Woman

Similar People
  
Henry Ainley, Anthony Ainley, Tom Walls, Paul Czinner, Vincente Minnelli

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Richard Ainley (22 December 1910 – 18 May 1967) was a stage and film actor, son of Henry Ainley and half-brother of Anthony Ainley.

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Although according to Allmovie his date of birth was 22 October 1910, The Internet Movie Database places it on 22 December. In any case, he was born in Stanmore, Middlesex and made his stage debut in 1928 and initially used the stage name Richard Riddle/Riddell. His first motion picture appearance was in 1936 as Sylvius in As You Like It, which starred his father. Other roles included Ferdinand in the television movie of The Tempest (1939), Dr. Hale in Shining Victory (1941), and a Foreign Office official in the thriller Above Suspicion (1943).

Ainley married three times. He was divorced from his first two wives; his third wife Rowena Woolf died in 1968.

He retired from film work following a disabling wound while he was serving in the army during World War II to return to the stage. He was briefly principal of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the early 1960s.

Filmography

Actor
1965
Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) as
Ambrose Pelham
- Episode #1.831 (1965) - Ambrose Pelham
- Episode #1.830 (1965) - Ambrose Pelham
- Episode #1.829 (1965) - Ambrose Pelham
- Episode #1.827 (1965) - Ambrose Pelham
- Episode #1.826 (1965) - Ambrose Pelham
- Episode #1.825 (1965) - Ambrose Pelham
1949
Broken Dreams (Short) as
Narrator (voice)
1947
Tobias and the Angel (TV Movie) as
The Archangel Rafael
1943
I Dood It as
Larry West
1943
The Man from Down Under as
Military Doctor (uncredited)
1943
Above Suspicion as
Peter Galt
1943
Du Barry Was a Lady as
Marching Rebel Behind King Louis (uncredited)
1943
Three Hearts for Julia as
Philip Barrows
1942
White Cargo as
Mr. Worthing
1941
Passage from Hong Kong as
Lt. Norman MacNeil-Fraser
1941
The Smiling Ghost as
Cousin Tennant Bentley
1941
Bullets for O'Hara as
McKay Standish
1941
Shining Victory as
Dr. Hale
1941
Singapore Woman as
John Wetherby
1941
Knockout as
Allison
1941
Here Comes Happiness as
Jelliffe Blaine
1940
Lady with Red Hair as
Lou Payne
1940
Mad Men of Europe as
Geoffrey Brown
1939
There Ain't No Justice as
Billy Frist
1939
The Tempest/II (TV Movie) as
Ferdinand
1939
The Tempest (TV Movie) as
Ferdinand
1939
Stolen Life as
Morgan
1938
Lily of Laguna as
Roger Fielding
1938
Old Iron as
Harry Woodstock
1938
The Gang as
Whipple
1937
Torpedoed as
Lieutenant (uncredited)
1937
The Frog as
Ray Bennett
1936
As You Like It as
Sylvius
Self
1943
Portrait of a Genius (Documentary short) as
Leonardo da Vinci
Archive Footage
1955
MGM Parade (TV Series documentary) as
Leonardo Da Vinci
- Episode #1.9 (1955) - Leonardo Da Vinci

References

Richard Ainley Wikipedia