Birthday
1918/08/02
Day of death
2011/08/02 (93 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Monmouth, Gwent, Wales, UK
Also know as
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Richard de Pearsall Pearson (1 August 1918 – 2 August 2011) was an English character actor, who appeared in numerous film, television and stage productions over a period of 65 years. He played leading roles in several London West End plays and also supported Maggie Smith, Robert Morley and others in long-running West End stage productions. His many screen appearances included character parts in three Polanski films.
(1986) Whoops Apocalypse
as Michael Sumpter (Defence Secretary)
(1979) Tess
as Vicar of Marlott
(1985) Water
as Foreign Secretary
(1971) Sunday Bloody Sunday
as Patient
(1953) The Blue Parrot
as Quinney
(1966) Macready's Gala
as Headmaster
(1983) The Wind in the Willows
as Mole
(1965) The Agony and the Ecstasy
as Cardinal
(1954) Dangerous Cargo
as Noel
(1962) Guns of Darkness
as Herbert Bastian
(1975) One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
as Sir Geoffrey
(1961) Attempt to Kill
as Frank Weyman
(1975) Love Among the Ruins
as George Druce
(1978) She Fell Among Thieves
as Father Below
(1980) The Mirror Crack'd
as Doctor Haydock
(1961) Danger! Men Working
as Major Trumbull
(1972) A Fluid Arrangement
as Jack
(1973) Alice Through the Looking Glass
as ---
(1975) Royal Flash
as Duchy Chamberlain
(1971) Catch Me a Spy
as Haldene
(1976) It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
as Granville Bennett
(1968) Inspector Clouseau
as Shockley
(1968) The Strange Affair
as ---
(1968) Charlie Bubbles
as Accountant
(1950) The Woman in Question
as Detective
(1951) Scrooge
as Mr. Tupper
(1976) The Blue Bird
as Bread
(1958) Sea Fury
as Kershaw
(1972) Still Waters
as Alfred
(1959) Life in Danger
as Sgt. Burt Norris
(1970) The Three Sisters
as Koolyghin
(1964) The Yellow Rolls-Royce
as Osborn
(1964) The Comedy Man
as Advertising Man
(1950) The Girl Is Mine
as Sergeant
(1979) Coming Out
as Gerald Fox
(1959) The Crowning Touch
as Roger
(1967) How I Won the War
as Old Man at Alamein
(1971) Macbeth
as Doctor
(1959) Model for Murder
as Bullock
(1959) Libel
as The Butler
(1970) The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
as Wilting
(1961) The Threatening Storm
as ---
(1972) Pope Joan
as Friar Timothy
(1973) Her Majesty's Pleasure
as Mrs Whiteheart
(1972) Mrs. Warren's Profession
as Rev. Samuel Gardner
(1988) The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads
as Mole (voice)
(1954) Svengali
as Lambert
(1983) Arms and the Man
as ---
(1955) Quay South
as Frederick Elwes
(1965) The Legend of Young Dick Turpin
as Bailiff
(1954) Fabian of the Yard
as ---
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Michael Carey
(1978) Enemy at the Door
as William Clifford
(1987) Inspector Morse
as Jerome Hogg
(1990) One Foot In the Grave
as ---
(1981) A Fine Romance
as ---
(1984) The Wind in the Willows
as Mole (voice)
(1959) No Hiding Place
as ---
(1969) The First Churchills
as ---
(1990) Kappatoo
as ---
(1961) Sir Francis Drake
as Sir Richard Bosanquet
(1966) Mystery and Imagination
as ---
(1955) The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
as Jack Williams
(1960) Mystery of Edwin Drood
as ---
(1990) Freddie and Max
as Malcolm Parkes
(1964) Martin Chuzzlewit
as ---
(1995) Good Friends
as ---
(1965) Thirty-Minute Theatre
as ---
(1980) Hammer House of Horror
as Sir Humphrey Chesterton
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Koolyghin
(1971) Columbo
as Diver
(1958) Our Mutual Friend
as Nicodemus Boffin
(1989) Campion
as Dr. Galley
(1980) Therese Raquin
as Michaud
(1990) Oh, Mr. Toad
as Mole
(1985) Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
as Mr. Pye
(1956) Armchair Theatre
as Major Trumbull
(1984) Miss Marple
as Mr. Pye
(1965) Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Cloon
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Bailiff
(1971) The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Marquess of Macclesfield
(1965) Public Eye
as Jenks
(1977) BBC2 Play of the Week
as Father Below
(1970) Play for Today
as Alfred
(1959) Bleak House
as Inspector Bucket
(1955) Lilli Palmer Theatre
as Bilston
(1950) Sunday Night Theatre
as John Wood