Addison Richards

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1902-10-20 (62 years old)

Deathday

1964-03-22

Place of Birth

Zanesville, Ohio, USA

Addison Richards

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Addison Whitaker Richards, Jr. (October 20, 1902 – March 22, 1964) was an American actor of film and television. He appeared in more than three hundred films and television series between 1933 and his death.

Acting

1936

The Walking Dead

as Prison Warden

1942

Sealed Lips

as Chief Gary Benson

1939

Whispering Enemies

as Red Barrett

1956

Crime Against Joe

as District Attorney Roy Kasden

1945

Strange Confession

as Dr. Williams

1942

Flying Tigers

as R.T. Lindsay

1961

Operation Eichmann

as The Stranger

1945

Bewitched

as John Ellis

1938

Boys Town

as Judge

1942

Underground Agent

as George Martin

1943

A Guy Named Joe

as Maj. Corbett

1940

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

as George Benedict

1945

Betrayal from the East

as Captain Bates, G-2

1942

A-Haunting We Will Go

as Attorney Malcolm Kilgore

1942

Friendly Enemies

as Inspector McCarthy

1940

1945

The Shanghai Cobra

as John Adams

1946

Criminal Court

as District Attorney Gordon

1939

Nick Carter, Master Detective

as Streeter - President of Radex

1949

Mighty Joe Young

as Attorney (uncredited)

1955

Illegal

as Steve Harper

1956

When Gangland Strikes

as Mark Spurlock

1942

1941

Sheriff of Tombstone

as Mayor Luke Keeler

1933

Lone Cowboy

as Dobe Jones

1943

The Mad Ghoul

as Editor Gavigan

1941

Tall, Dark and Handsome

as Miitary Academy Commandant

1940

Flight Command

as Vice Admiral

1942

The Lady Has Plans

as Paul Baker

1937

Smart Blonde

as Fitz Mularkay

1935

Little Big Shot

as Hank Gibbs

1964

1939

They Made Her a Spy

as Senator Everett Brock

1934

1936

Colleen

as Schuyler

1939

Slightly Honorable

as Inspector Melvyn Fromm

1948

The Saxon Charm

as Abel Richman

1939

Inside Information

as Gerald Banford

1941

Forbidden Passage

as Frank J. Maxwell

1942

1943

Mystery Broadcast

as Bill Burton

1935

Frisco Kid

as William Coleman

1943

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

as District Attorney

1936

Song of the Saddle

as Frank Wilson Sr.

1945

Divorce

as Plummer

1942

Secret Enemies

as C.G. Travers

1933

Riot Squad

as Diamonds Jareck

1935

Sweet Music

as Mr. Thomas

1945

The Tiger Woman

as Mr. White

1937

Dance Charlie Dance

as Gordon Fox

1940

The Man from Dakota

as Confederate Provost Marshal

1961

1955

High Society

as Sam Cosgrove

1957

Gunsight Ridge

as Sheriff Tom Jones

1936

Public Enemy's Wife

as Warden Williams

1945

The Chicago Kid

as The Warden

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1936

Road Gang

as Parmenter

1934

A Lost Lady

as State Attorney (uncredited)

1944

A Night of Adventure

as District Attorney Branson

1938

Accidents Will Happen

as Blair Thurston

1939

They All Come Out

as Warden - Atlanta

1938

Strange Glory

as Senator

1939

Bad Lands

as Rayburn

1935

Dinky

as District Attorney

1956

The Broken Star

as Marshal Wayne Forrester

1939

Burn 'Em Up O'Connor

as Ed Eberhart

1935

The White Cockatoo

as David Lorn

1940

Moon Over Burma

as Art Bryan

1945

The Master Key

as Gerhard Doenitz / Garret Donahue

1962

Saintly Sinners

as Monsignor

1936

Sutter's Gold

as James Marshall

1942

My Favorite Blonde

as Herbert Wilson

1939

Exile Express

as Purnell

1934

1943

Smart Guy

as District Attorney Ben Carter

1938

Prison Nurse

as Warden Benson

1938

The Black Doll

as A.H. Mallison

1961

The Flight That Disappeared

as The Future-being Advocate

1934

The St. Louis Kid

as Mr. Brown

1946

Step by Step

as James Blackton

1955

Fort Yuma

as Gen. Crook

1939

1956

Fury at Gunsight Pass

as Charles Hanford

1936

The Law in Her Hands

as William McGuire

1937

Romance of Louisiana

as James Monroe / Radio Actor in Studio

1935

Society Doctor

as Harrigan

1935

1957

1937

Ready, Willing and Able

as Edward McNeil

1948

Queen Esther

as Haman

1941

Texas

as Matt Lashan

1939

Tell No Tales

as Jim Hollis (uncredited)

1937

Draegerman Courage

as John McNally

1935

Here Comes the Band

as Colonel Wallace

1935

1937

Love Is on the Air

as E.E. Nichols

1935

'G' Men

as Bruce J. Gregory

1935

Freckles

as Jack Carter

1935

Freckles

as Butch

1934

Gentlemen Are Born

as Martinson

1935

Eight Bells

as Tracey

1939

Thunder Afloat

as Admiral Ross

1937

Her Husband's Secretary

as Steven Garron

1937

The Singing Marine

as Mr. Fowler

1939

Espionage Agent

as Bruce Corvall

1935

1942

Secrets of a Co-Ed

as District Attorney

1943

Wagon Wheels West

as Frank Wilson Sr. (edited from "Song of the Saddle") (archive footage)

1940

The Lone Wolf Strikes

as Stanley Young

1940

Cherokee Strip

as Ned Strawn

1945

Bells of Rosarita

as Slim Phillips

1946

Dragonwyck

as Head Farmer (uncredited)

1943

Air Force

as Maj. Daniels

1944

Roger Touhy, Gangster

as Priest (uncredited)

1942

Man With Two Lives

as Lt. Detective George Bradley

1934

1940

Arizona

as Capt. Hunter

1935

The Eagle's Brood

as Big Henry

1941

The Great Lie

as Mr. Talbot

1940

1941

Ball of Fire

as District Attorney

1947

Monsieur Verdoux

as Bank Manager (uncredited)

1936

Trailin' West

as Curley Thorne

1936

Jailbreak

as Dan Varner

1937

White Bondage

as Kip Gillis

1936

Man Hunt

as Mel Purdue

1940

Edison, the Man

as Mr. Johnson

1941

1947

The Millerson Case

as Dr. Wickersham

1948

Reaching from Heaven

as Max Bradley

1935

Front Page Woman

as District Attorney

1942

Top Sergeant

as Col. Gray

1937

Alcatraz Island

as Fred MacLane

1939

Money to Loan

as District Attorney Norman Kennedy

1943

The Deerslayer

as Mr. Hutter

1945

Grissly's Millions

as Henry Adams

1942

War Dogs

as William Freeman

1940

Wyoming

as Kincaid

1940

My Little Chickadee

as Judge (uncredited)

1944

Bordertown Trail

as Fontaine

1949

Rustlers

as Frank Abbott

1941

1940

Northwest Passage

as Lieutenant Crofton

1946

The Hoodlum Saint

as Reverend Miller

1948

If You Knew Susie

as Senator Making Speech (uncredited)

1938

Gateway

as Inspector

1940

Little Nellie Kelly

as Naturalization Judge (uncredited)

1940

Pony Express Days

as Tipton Walton

1938

That Certain Age

as Newspaper Man (uncredited)

1940

Island of Doomed Men

as Jackson (#46) (uncredited)

1944

The Mummy's Curse

as Maj. Pat Walsh

1939

Geronimo

as Frederick Allison

1934

Let’s Be Ritzy

as Lt. Spaulding

1934

Babbitt

as District Attorney

1944

1960

Inherit the Wind

as Townsman (uncredited)

1948

Lulu Belle

as Police Commissioner John Dixon

1944

The Fighting Seabees

as Capt. Joyce

1943

Crime Doctor

as Prison Warden

1950

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout

as Capt. Weightman

1945

1941

Back in the Saddle

as Duke Winston

1942

Men of Texas

as Silas Hurlbert

1942

Cowboy Serenade

as Asa Lock

1963

The Raiders

as Huntingdon Lawford

1944

Raiders of Ghost City

as Colonel Sewell

1945

1941

Badlands of Dakota

as Gen. George Custer

1941

They Died with Their Boots On

as Adjutant (uncredited)

1939

1958

1943

Adventures of the Flying Cadets

as A.J. 'Jack' Hill [Ch. 1]

1961

Frontier Uprising

as Cmdr. Kimball

1948

Call Northside 777

as State Commissioner John Albertson (uncredited)

1941

Men of Boys Town

as The Judge

1956

1944

Barbary Coast Gent

as Wade Gamelin

1938

Breakdowns of 1938

as Warden (archive footage) (uncredited)

1939

Mystery of the White Room

as Dr. Finley Morton

1936

Ceiling Zero

as Fred Adams

1939

1942

Mokey

as Judge

1959

The Oregon Trail

as President James Polk (uncredited)

1941

Dive Bomber

as Surgeon (uncredited)

1941

Design for Scandal

as Divorce Lawyer (uncredited)

1941

Western Union

as Captain Harlow

1936

Anthony Adverse

as Capt. Matanaza

1938

The Devil's Party

as Inspector Bresnahan

1945

Men in Her Diary

as Attorney Cavanagh

1949

Henry, the Rainmaker

as Steve Richards

1944

1943

Headin' for God's Country

as District Commissioner

1936

The Petrified Forest

as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

1943

Oklahoma Outlaws

as Judge John Walton

1943

Corvette K-225

as Cmdr. Rowland

1941

Her First Beau

as Dr. Tom Wood

1944

Main Street Today

as Fred Baker

1940

1943

Destroyer

as Ship Building Foreman

1945

Danger Signal

as Police Inspector

1942

Pacific Rendezvous

as Gordon Trisby

1942

1946

Angel on My Shoulder

as Big Harry (uncredited)

1941

Our Wife

as Middle-Aged Man in Jerry's Stateroom (uncredited)

1945

Spellbound

as Police Captain (uncredited)

1936

Bullets or Ballots

as William Kennedy - Newsreel Narrator (uncredited)

1936

China Clipper

as Mr. B.C. Hill

1937

Black Legion

as Prosecuting Attorney

1945

I'll Remember April

as Inspector Pat Malloy

1937

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

as Second Doctor (uncredited)

1945

Adventures of Rusty

as Dr. Banning - Psychiatrist

1940

South to Karanga

as Edmund Daniels

1956

Walk the Proud Land

as Gov. Safford

1938

Flight to Fame

as Colonel King

1945

Leave Her to Heaven

as Bedford (uncredited)

1945

Come Out Fighting

as Police Commissioner James Mitchell

1940

Girl from Havana

as Harrigan

1956

Everything But the Truth

as Roger Connolly

1935

1939

The Man from Montreal

as Capt. Owens, R.C.M.P.

1943

Swing Shift Maisie

as Chief Investigator (Uncredited)

1942

For Me and My Gal

as France Doctor (uncredited)

1942

The Big Street

as Dr. Mitchell (Uncredited)

1936

Hot Money

as Forbes

1960

All the Fine Young Cannibals

as Mr. McDowall (uncredited)

1946

1941

I Wanted Wings

as Flight Surgeon

1940

Ski Patrol

as James Burton - Speaker

1934

Handy Andy

as McKechnie (uncredited)

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