@RUTGERS.ARPA:reiher@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA (04/16/85)
From: Peter Reiher <reiher@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA>
Richardson, truly one of the century's great actors, actually wound up doing
rather a lot of fantasy and science fiction films over the years. Here's
a list
"Things to Come" 1936
"The Man Who Could Work Miracles" 1936
"The Bed Sitting Room" 1969 (in the title role...)
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 1972
"O Lucky Man!" 1973
"Rollerball" 1978
"Time Bandits" 1983
"Dragonslayer" 1983
Also a voice in "Watership Down", two horror pictures ("The Ghoul" in 1933 and
"Tales from the Crypt" in 1972), and I know some people who consider
"Breaking the Sound Barrier" to be science fiction. Richardson had a
mischievous, pixielike quality behind a facade of reserve which made him
much more appropriate for these sorts of roles than his peers, Gielgud
and Olivier. (Imagine what British theater was like when all three of
them were young and rattling off one Shakespeare play after another.)