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Richard Pearson

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Monmouth, Gwent, Wales, UK, 1918-08-02

Died: 2011-08-02

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Girl Is Mine	Sergeant	0
2	1950	The Woman in Question	Detective	62
3	1951	Scrooge	Mr. Tupper	74
4	1953	The Blue Parrot	Quinney	53
5	1954	Dangerous Cargo	Noel	52
6	1954	Svengali	Lambert	59
7	1954	Fabian of the Yard		0
8	1955	Quay South	Frederick Elwes	0
9	1958	Sea Fury	Kershaw	60
10	1959	Life in Danger	Sgt. Burt Norris	85
11	1959	Model for Murder	Bullock	66
12	1959	The Crowning Touch	Roger	0
13	1959	Libel	The Butler	69
14	1961	The Threatening Storm		0
15	1961	Danger! Men Working	Major Trumbull	0
16	1961	Attempt to Kill	Frank Weyman	0
17	1962	Guns of Darkness	Herbert Bastian	60
18	1964	The Comedy Man	Advertising Man	71
19	1964	The Yellow Rolls-Royce	Osborn	61
20	1965	The Legend of Young Dick Turpin	Bailiff	0
21	1965	The Agony and the Ecstasy	Cardinal	71
22	1966	Macready's Gala	Headmaster	0
23	1967	How I Won the War	Old Man at Alamein	55
24	1968	Charlie Bubbles	Accountant	63
25	1968	Inspector Clouseau	Shockley	50
26	1968	The Strange Affair		44
27	1970	The Three Sisters	Koolyghin	60
28	1970	The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer	Wilting	61
29	1971	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Patient	66
30	1971	Catch Me a Spy	Haldene	46
31	1971	Macbeth	Doctor	71
32	1972	Still Waters	Alfred	0
33	1972	Pope Joan	Friar Timothy	59
34	1972	A Fluid Arrangement	Jack	0
35	1972	Mrs. Warren's Profession	Rev. Samuel Gardner	0
36	1973	Her Majesty's Pleasure	Mrs Whiteheart	0
37	1973	Alice Through the Looking Glass		62
38	1975	Love Among the Ruins	George Druce	69
39	1975	One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing	Sir Geoffrey	57
40	1975	Royal Flash	Duchy Chamberlain	59
41	1976	The Blue Bird	Bread	53
42	1976	It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet	Granville Bennett	60
43	1978	She Fell Among Thieves	Father Below	70
44	1979	Coming Out	Gerald Fox	57
45	1979	Tess	Vicar of Marlott	71
46	1980	The Mirror Crack'd	Doctor Haydock	61
47	1983	Arms and the Man		0
48	1983	The Wind in the Willows	Mole	70
49	1985	Water	Foreign Secretary	59
50	1986	Whoops Apocalypse	Michael Sumpter (Defence Secretary)	56
51	1989	The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads	Mole (voice)	50

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	John Wood	35
2	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Father Francis	35
3	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Bailiff	78
4	1955	Lilli Palmer Theatre	Bilston	0
5	1955	The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel	Jack Williams	76
6	1956	Armchair Theatre	Major Trumbull	58
7	1958	Our Mutual Friend	Nicodemus Boffin	50
8	1959	No Hiding Place		37
9	1959	Bleak House	Inspector Bucket	0
10	1960	Mystery of Edwin Drood		0
11	1961	Sir Francis Drake	Sir Richard Bosanquet	45
12	1964	Martin Chuzzlewit		0
13	1964	The Wednesday Play	Fatty	45
14	1965	Public Eye	Jenks	78
15	1965	Thirty-Minute Theatre		38
16	1965	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Cloon	38
17	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Koolyghin	50
18	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Rev. Canon Chasuble	50
19	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Herbert Soppitt	50
20	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Mazzini Dunn	50
21	1966	Mystery and Imagination		55
22	1969	The First Churchills		63
23	1970	Play for Today	Alfred	63
24	1971	Columbo	Diver	81
25	1971	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Marquess of Macclesfield	73
26	1977	BBC2 Play of the Week	Father Below	70
27	1978	Enemy at the Door	William Clifford	78
28	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Michael Carey	67
29	1980	Therese Raquin	Michaud	59
30	1980	Hammer House of Horror	Sir Humphrey Chesterton	71
31	1981	A Fine Romance		53
32	1984	The Wind in the Willows	Mole (voice)	79
33	1985	Miss Marple: The Moving Finger	Mr. Pye	75
34	1987	Inspector Morse	Jerome Hogg	78
35	1989	Campion	Dr. Galley	56
36	1990	One Foot in the Grave		76
37	1990	Oh, Mr. Toad	Mole	0
38	1990	Kappatoo		73
39	1990	Freddie and Max	Malcolm Parkes	50
40	1995	Good Friends		0