Richard Pearson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1918-08-02 (93 years old)

Deathday

2011-08-02

Place of Birth

Monmouth, Gwent, Wales, UK

Richard Pearson

Biography

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.

Acting

1986

Whoops Apocalypse

as Michael Sumpter (Defence Secretary)

1979

Tess

as Vicar of Marlott

1985

Water

as Foreign Secretary

1971

1953

The Blue Parrot

as Quinney

1966

Macready's Gala

as Headmaster

1954

1962

Guns of Darkness

as Herbert Bastian

1961

Attempt to Kill

as Frank Weyman

1978

She Fell Among Thieves

as Father Below

1975

Love Among the Ruins

as George Druce

1980

The Mirror Crack'd

as Doctor Haydock

1961

Danger! Men Working

as Major Trumbull

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

1968

Charlie Bubbles

as Accountant

1950

1951

Scrooge

as Mr. Tupper

1976

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 Comedy Man

as Advertising Man

1950

The Girl Is Mine

as Sergeant

1979

Coming Out

as Gerald Fox

1959

1967

How I Won the War

as Old Man at Alamein

1971

Macbeth

as Doctor

1959

1959

Libel

as The Butler

1972

Pope Joan

as Friar Timothy

1973

Her Majesty's Pleasure

as Mrs Whiteheart

1972

Mrs. Warren's Profession

as Rev. Samuel Gardner

1954

Svengali

as Lambert

1955

Quay South

as Frederick Elwes

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