Tony Richardson
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Look Back in Anger (1958)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure
- Richard Burton plays the angry–young–man to the hilt in this grimly realistic slice of British life in the '50s. Based on John Osborne's…
- Entertainer, The (1960)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Laurence Olivier
- Laurence Olivier portrays a faded comedian who reflects on his failure as an entertainer and as a man. Another fine example of moody British…
- Taste of Honey, A (1961)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens…
- Powerful and starkly realistic 'kitchen sink' drama in which a mollycoddled lonely girl (Rita Tushingham) leaves her loveless home to befriend a…
- Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Alec McCowen
- Rebellious borstal–boy Tom Courtenay finds self–discovery while cross–country training. An emotionally powerful critique of class…
- Tom Jones (1963)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith…
- Albert Finney inhabits the randy trou of Tom Jones, a wild and reckless young man with an eye for the ladies. A lavishly produced Oscar winner,…
- Loved One, The (1965)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer…
- Satirical take on the funeral business in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery.
Doing for funerals what that DR…
- Mademoiselle (Summer Fires) (1966)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Ettore Manni, Umberto Orsini
- Divisive and disturbing portrait of a repressed school teacher who unleashes a plague of 'accidents' upon on the inhabitants of her rural…
- Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, David Hemmings
- Updated version of the Mid–Victorian battle made in the sardonic spirit of the swinging sixties. Trevor Howard, John Gielgud and David Hemmings…
- Hamlet (1969)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Nicol Williamson, Gordon Jackson, Anthony Hopkins…
- The predominant use of close–ups enhances Nicol Williamson's bold performance as an impulsive, roguish young Hamlet.
- Ned Kelly (1970)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Mick Jagger
- Standard Biopic treatment of the infamous Aussie bushranger, livened up by casting of Mick Jagger.
- American Film Theatre - A Delicate Balance (1973)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick…
- The American Film Theatre's adaptation of the Edward Albee stageplay set amongst a troubled, but well–to–do American family.
When some…
- Joseph Andrews (1977)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Beryl Reid…
- Bawdy picaresque revolves around the romantic misadventures of switched–at–birth servant. Chief amongst his concerns are the unwelcome…
- Border, The (1981)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine…
- Rather underrated drama set along the Texas–Mexico borderlands, where a soiled but still–idealistic cop (Nicholson) becomes embroiled…
- Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Jodie Foster, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski
- Jodie Foster falls in love with brother Rob Lowe. From the John Irving novel.
- Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)
- Dir. Ken Russell, Tony Richardson, Frederic Raphael
Feat. James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Peter Weller…
- Three stories of love from the pens of famous Americans, in the hands of three great directors.
- Blue Sky (1994)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones
- Jessica Lange won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as a flighty mother–of–two whose publicly turbulent marriage to army officer…
- John Osborne and the Gift of Friendship (2006)
- Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. John Osborne, Tony Richardson, Laurence Olivier…
- Exemplary presentation traces the life and works of groundbreaking British playwright John Osborne, whose 1956 play 'Look Back in Anger' changed the…