Ralph Richardson

His career has often been compared with that of Olivier, Alec Guinness and John Gielgud. He is currently the star and executive producer of the USA television show, Monk, in which he plays an obsessive compulsive private detective. His film appearances included The Heiress, Richard III (playing Buckingham to Laurence Olivier's Richard), O Lucky Man!, Oh! What a Lovely War and Time Bandits. One of his first roles was in the television series Wings. After World War II, he became co-director of the Vic, and also appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-on-Avon. October 9, 1953, Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA), an American actor, has appeared in Spy Kids and its sequels, Galaxy Quest, The Siege, A Civil Action, Searching for Bobby Fischer, The Impostors, Primary Colors, Gattaca, Men in Black, Big Night, Barton Fink, Honeymoon in Vegas, Quick Change, Longtime Companion, Thir13en Ghosts, Life or Something Like It, Men in Black II, Against the Ropes, Stark Raving Mad, and Paulie. Thereafter he became one of the Old Vic's major stars. Tony Shalhoub (b.

Richardson was born in Cheltenham and made his West End début in 1926. Sir Ralph David Richardson (December 19, 1902 - 1983) was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, did their best to make the transition to film.