Richard Pearson
Born: 1918-08-02 in Monmouth, Gwent, Wales, UK
Died: 2011-08-02
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1995
1992
- The Christmas Collection as Mole (voice)
1990
- One Foot in the Grave
- Oh, Mr. Toad as Mole
- Freddie and Max as Malcolm Parkes
- Kappatoo
- More Children's Holiday Favourites as Mole (voice)
1989
- Campion as Dr. Galley
- The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads as Mole (voice)
- Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1 as Mole (voice)
- More Children's Summer Stories as Mole (voice)
- Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2 as Mole (voice)
1988
- Children's Favourites - Volume 1 as Mole (voice)
1987
- Inspector Morse as Jerome Hogg
1986
- Whoops Apocalypse as Michael Sumpter (Defence Secretary)
- The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales as Mole (voice)
1985
- Miss Marple: The Moving Finger as Mr. Pye
- Water as Foreign Secretary
- Reunion at Fairborough
1984
- The Wind in the Willows as Mole (voice)
1983
- Arms and the Man as Petkoff
- The Wind in the Willows as Mole
- The Bank Manager's Wife as George
1981
1980
- Hammer House of Horror as Sir Humphrey Chesterton
- Therese Raquin as Michaud
- The Mirror Crack'd as Doctor Haydock
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Michael Carey
- Tess as Vicar of Marlott
- Coming Out as Gerald Fox
1978
- Enemy at the Door as William Clifford
- She Fell Among Thieves as Father Below
1977
- BBC2 Play of the Week as Father Below
1976
- The Duchess of Duke Street as Sir Ernest Horsfield
- The Blue Bird as Bread
- Love Among the Ruins as George Druce
- It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet as Granville Bennett
1975
- Royal Flash as Duchy Chamberlain
- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing as Sir Geoffrey
1973
- The Upper Crusts as Balmforth
- Alice Through the Looking Glass
- Her Majesty's Pleasure as Mrs Whiteheart
1972
- Pope Joan as Friar Timothy
- Mrs. Warren's Profession as Rev. Samuel Gardner
- A Fluid Arrangement as Jack
- Still Waters as Alfred
1971
- Columbo as Diver
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Marquess of Macclesfield
- Macbeth as Doctor
- Sunday Bloody Sunday as Patient
- Catch Me a Spy as Haldene
1970
- Play for Today as Alfred
- The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer as Wilting
- The Three Sisters as Koolyghin
1969
- The Fosters as Mr. Foster
1968
- Inspector Clouseau as Shockley
- Charlie Bubbles as Accountant
- The Strange Affair
1967
- How I Won the War as Old Man at Alamein
1966
- Mystery and Imagination as Mr Abney
- Macready's Gala as Headmaster
- Ella as Edwin
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Koolyghin
- Public Eye as Jenks
- Thirty-Minute Theatre
- The Agony and the Ecstasy as Cardinal
- The Legend of Young Dick Turpin as Bailiff
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Fatty
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce as Osborn
- A Choice of Coward as Ernest Feldman
- The Comedy Man as Advertising Man
1962
- Guns of Darkness as Herbert Bastian
1961
- Sir Francis Drake as Sir Richard Bosanquet
- Attempt to Kill as Frank Weyman
- Danger! Men Working as Major Trumbull
- The Threatening Storm
1960
- Armchair Mystery Theatre as Karl Heffer
- Mystery of Edwin Drood
1959
- No Hiding Place
- Bleak House as Inspector Bucket
- Libel as The Butler
- Model for Murder as Bullock
- Life in Danger as Sgt. Burt Norris
- The Crowning Touch as Roger
1958
- Our Mutual Friend as Nicodemus Boffin
- Battle of the V-1 as Senior RAF Officer (uncredited)
- Sea Fury as Kershaw
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Major Trumbull
1955
- The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel as Jack Williams
- Lilli Palmer Theatre as Bilston
- Quay South as Frederick Elwes
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Bailiff
- Svengali as Lambert
- Dangerous Cargo as Noel
- Fabian of the Yard
1953
- The Blue Parrot as Quinney
1951
- Scrooge as Mr. Tupper
1950
- Sunday Night Theatre as John Wood
- The Woman in Question as Detective
- The Woman with No Name as Tony
- The Girl Is Mine as Sergeant