Other works

He recorded several spoken-word albums for Caedmon Records during the 1960s, and among his recorded performances was the title role in William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".

He starred as Cyrano in a famous London stage production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in 1946, the same year that Jose Ferrer first played Cyrano in the Broadway revival of the play. Nearly twenty years later, Richardson recreated his complete performance with a different supporting cast for Caedmon Records.

His famous stage roles include Falstaff, Cyrano de Bergerac, Sir Toby Belch (in "Twelfth Night", and the only one of his Shakespearean roles that he re-created on television), Peer Gynt, and Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

In the 1930s, he played the title role in a then rather controversial stage production of Shakespeare's "Othello", with Laurence Olivier as Iago. This production was influenced by the writings of psychologist Dr. Ernest C. Jones, who suggested that Iago was homosexually in love with Othello, and that this motivated him to drive Othello to suspect his (Othello's) wife Desdemona of infidelity. Dr. Jones was the same psychologist who influenced Olivier's Oedipal depiction of Hamlet in the 1948 film.

He played "Tiresias" in the 1946 Old Vic production of "Oedipus Rex", which visited Broadway. Laurence Olivier played "Oedipus".

He played Henry in the London stage production of Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound" in 1924.

On the 1st October, 1946, in London, he played Inspector Goole in 'An Inspector Calls'.

Famously played the title role in the 1975 production of Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman". It is reported that during one of the performances, at the end of which his character dies on a bench, he didn't get up for the bow, and stayed on the bench. One of his co-stars went to check if he was all right. It turned out that Richardson couldn't get up because he was suffering from absolute exhaustion after having played the role.

Romeo and Juliet (1935). Tragedy (revival). Written by William Shakespeare. Choreographed by Martha Graham. Scenic Design and Costume Design by Jo Mielziner. Directed by Guthrie McClintic. Martin Beck Theatre: 23 Dec 1935- Jan 1936 (closing date unknown/15 performances). Cast: Evelyn Abbott, Carl Allan, Albert Allen, Robert Champlain, Arthur Chatterdon (as "Montague"), John Cornell, Katharine Cornell (as "Juliet, daughter to Capulet"), John Cromwell (as "Paris, a young nobleman, kinsman to the prince"), Charles Dalton, Shelton Earp, Maurice Evans (as "Romeo, son of Montague"), Reynolds Evans (as "Escalus, prince of Verona"), Charlotte Fitch, Anne Froelick, Richard Graham, Lois Jameson, Alice John, Ruth March, Harriott Marshall, Irby Marshall (as "Lady Capulet, wife to Capulet"), Gabrielle Morgan, Irving Morrow, David Orrick, Tyrone Power (as "Benvolio, nephew to Montague and friend to Romeo"), Florence Reed, Ralph Richardson (as "Mercutio, kinsman to the prince and friend to Romeo" and "Chorus"), Joseph Roeder, William Roehrick, Hudson Shotwell, Kurt Steinbart, Fred Thompson, David Vivian, Charles Waldron (as "Friar Laurence"). Produced by Katharine Cornell.

He did a number of old time radio shows playing "Doctor Watson" with John Gielgud as "Sherlock Holmes".

(May 8, 1932) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Twelfth Night," at the Old Vic Theatre in London, england with Ethel Glendinning, Robert Speaight, Harold Chapin, Robert Harris, Alastair Sim, and Ralph Michael in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1931 - 1932) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "The Taming of the Shrew," at the Old Vic Theatre and Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, England with Phyllis Thomas, George Zucco, and Robert Harris in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1931 - 1932) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Julius Caesar," at the Old Vic Theatre and Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, England with Harcourt Williams, Robert Harris, Robert Speaight, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Thomas, Marius Goring, and Valerie Tudor in the cast. Harcourt Williams was also director.

(1931 - 1932) He played the first gravedigger in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at the Old Vic Theatre and Salder's Wells Theatre in London, England with Ralph Michael, Robert Harris, Robert Speaight, Alastair Sim, Martita Hunt, and Phyllis Thomas in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1931 - 1932) He acted in Francis Beaumont's play, "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," at the Old Vic Theatre and Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, England with Sybil Thorndike, George Zucco, Robert Harris, and Robert Speaight in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1931 - 1932) He acted in John Drinkwater's play, "Abraham Lincoln," at the Old Vic Theatre and at the Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, England with Harcourt Williams, Robert Speaight, and Alastair Sim in the cast. John Drinkwater was also director.

(1931 - 1932) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Henry V," at the Old Vic Theatre and at the Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, England with Harcourt Williams, Robert Harris, Robert Speaight, and George Zucco in the cast. Harcourt Williams was also director.

(1931 - 1932) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer's Night Dream," at the Old Vic Theatre and at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, England with Robert Harris, Leslie French, Robert Speaight, and George Zucco in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1931 - 1932) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Othello," at the Old Vic Theatre and at the Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, England with Wilfrid Walter, Robert Harris, Edith Evans, Alastair Sim, and Phyllis Thomas in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1931 - 1932) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "King John," at the Old Vic Theatre and the Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, England with Robert Speaight, George Zucco, Geoffrey Toone, Robert Harris, Ralph Michael, Mary Russell, Phyllis Thomas, and Valerie Tudor in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1931 - 1932) He acted in the Old Vic Season at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Edith Evans, Robert Speaight, Robert Harris, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Thomas, and George Zucco in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(January 16, 1931) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Twelfth Night," at the Sadler's Wells Theatre in an Old Vic Theatre production in London, England with John Gielgud and Dorothy Green in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1930 - 1931) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "King Lear," at the Old Vic Theatre and Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, England with John Gielgud, Dorothy Green, Eric Portman, and Robert Speaight in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1930 - 1931) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Antony and Cleopatra," at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with John Gielgud and Dorothy Green in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1930 - 1931) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Richard II" at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with John Gielgud, Dorothy Green, Harcourt Williams and George Howe in the cast. Harcourt Williams was also director.

(1930 - 1931) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "The Tempest," at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with John Gielgud in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1930 - 1931) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Henry IV Part I," at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with John Gielgud, Dorothy Green, and George Howe in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1930 - 1931) He acted in George Colman's play, "The Jealous Wife," at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with John Gielgud, Joan Harben, Elsa Palmer, Dorothy Green, Leslie French, Alfred Sangster, Anthony Hawtrey, Valentine Dyall, and George Howe in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1930 - 1931) He acted in the Old Vic Season at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with John Gielgud and Dorothy Green in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1931 - 1932) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Twelfth Night," at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Edith Evans, Robert Speaight, Harold Chapin, Robert Harris, Alastair Sim, and Ralph Michael in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(April 23, 1934) He acted in the Shakespeare Birthday Festival at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Donald Wolfit, Flora Robson, Athene Seyler, Ben Greet, Ernest Milton, Dorothy Green, Harcourt Williams, Martita Hunt, Roger Livesey, Ursula Jeans, Frank Napier, Leslie French, Margaret Webster, and James Mason in the cast. Tyrone Guthrie was director.

(April 21, 1933) He acted in Shakespeare Birthday Festival at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Marius Goring, Alastair Sim, Peggy Ashcroft, George Devine, Malcolm Keen, Roger Livesey, Anthony Quayle, Marius Goring, Harcourt Williams, Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Ernest Milton, Ben Greet, Baliol Holloway, Martita Hunt, Gyles Isham, Margaret Webster, Clare Harris, Beatrice Wilson, Robert Speaight, Leslie French, and Dorothy Queen in the cast. Harcourt Williams was director.

(1937 - 1938) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Othello," at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Laurence Olivier, Anthony Quayle, Stephen Murray, Alexander Knox, Martita Hunt, and Andrew Cruickshank in the cast. Tyrone Guthrie was director.

(1937 - 1938) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer's Night Dream," at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Robert Helpmann, Stephen Murray, Vivien Leigh, and Anthony Quayle in the cast. Tyrone Guthrie was director.

(1937 - 1938) He acted in the Old Vic Theatre Season at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Laurence Oliiver, Vivien Leigh, Emlyn Williams, Stephen Murray, Anthony Quayle, and Andrew Cruickshank in the cast. Tyrone Guthrie was director.

(April 22, 1940) He acted in the Shakespeare Birthday Festival at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Cathleen Nesbitt, Lewis Casson, Jack Hawkins, Jessica Tandy, Alan MacNaughton, Michael Redgrave, Donald Wolfit, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quayle, Sybil Thorndike, Ann Casson, Edward Chapman, Constance Cummings, Adele Dixon, Wilfred Walter, George Howe, Vivienne Bennett, Peter Glenville, Abraham Sofaer, Veronica Turleigh, Jill Esmond, and James Donald in the cast.

(1948 - 1949) John Burrell, Laurence Olivier, and he directed The Old Vic Theatre Season at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Edith Evans, Harry Andrews, Jane Baxter, Cedric Hardwicke, Pauline Jameson, Peter Copley, Robert Eddison, Faith Brook, Mark Dignam, and Donald Sinden in the cast.

(1947 - 1948) John Burrell, Laurence Olivier, and he directed The Old Vic Theatre Season at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Alec Guinness, Mark Dignam, George Relph, Harry Andrews, Bernard Miles, Renee Asherson, Rosalind Atkinson, Celia Johnson, Patricia Burke, John Clements, and Trevor Howard in the cast. John Burrell, Laurence Olivier, and he were directors.

(May 1947) He acted in Ben Jonson's play, "The Alchemist", at the Old Vic at the New Theatre in London, England with Yvonne Mitchell, George Relph, Alec Guinness, Nicholas Hannen, Peter Copley, George Rose, Margaret Leighton and William Squire in the cast. John Burrell was the director.

(1947) He acted in Edmund Rostand's play, "Cyrano De Bergerac" at the Old Vic at the New Theatre in London, England with Nicholas Hannen, Joyce Redman, Margaret Leighton, George Relph, Alec Guinness, Harry Andrews, Peter Copley, George Rose, Michael Turner, Oscar Quitak, Erich Pohlmann and Michael Warre in the cast. Tyrone Guthrie was director.

(1947) He acted in Ben Jonson's play, "The Alchemist", at the Old Vic at the New Theatre in London, England with Nicholas Hannen, Joyce Redman, Margaret Leighton, George Relph, Alec Guinness, Peter Copley, George Rose and William Squire in the cast. John Burrell was the director.

(November 1946) He acted in J.B. Priestley's play, "An Inspector Calls," at the Old Vic at the New Theatre in London, England with Margaret Leighton, Harry Andrews, and Alec Guinness in the cast. Basil Dean was director.

(1946 - 1947) He acted in and directed the Old Vic Theatre Season at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Nicholas Hannen, Pamela Brown, Alec Guinness, Joyce Redman, Margaret Leighton, George Relph, Harry Andrews, Yvonne Mitchell, Lewis Casson, and Michael Warre in the cast. John Burrell, Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson were also directors.

(1945 - 1946) He acted in and directed the Old Vic Theatre Season at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Nicholas Hannen, Miles Malleson, Joyce Redman, Margaret Leighton, George Relph, Harcourt Williams, Harry Andrews, and Michael Warre in the cast. John Burrell, Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson were also directors.

(April 1945) He acted in Henrik Ibsen's play, "Peer Gynt," at the Old Vic Theatre Tour at the Opera House in Manchester, England with Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Nicholas Hannen, Joyce Redman, Margaret Leighton, George Relph, and Rose Morris in the cast. Tyrone Guthrie was director.

(1944 - 1945) He acted in and directed the Old Vic Theatre Season at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Nicholas Hannen, Joyce Redman, Margaret Leighton, George Relph, Harcourt Williams and Michael Warre in the cast. John Burrell and Laurence Olivier were also directors.

(1949) He directed in the Old Vic Theatre Season at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England and on the Australasian Tour with Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, George Relph, Peter Cushing, and Terence Morgan in the cast. John Burrell and Laurence Olivier were directors.

(1956 - 1957) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Timon of Athens", at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Barbara Jefford and Dudley Jones in the cast. Michael Benthall was the director.

(1956 - 1957) He acted in the Old Vic Theatre season at the Old Vic Theatre in London, England with Keith Michell, Barbara Jefford, Margaret Whiting, Derek Godfrey, Robert Helpmann, Derek Francis, Fay Compton and Dudley Jones in the cast. Michael Benthall was the director.

(1952) He acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Macbeth," in the Stratford Theatre Festival at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England with Margaret Leighton and Siobhan McKenna in the cast. John Gielgud was director.