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Ian Richardson

Ian William Richardson CBE (7 April 1934 – 9 February 2007) was a Scottish actor, best known for his portrayal of the Machiavellian Tory politician Francis Urquhart in the BBC's House of Cards trilogy. He was also a leading Shakespearean stage actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Richardson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 1934-04-07

Died: 2007-02-09

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1963	As You Like It	Le Beau	0
2	1967	Marat/Sade	Jean-Paul Marat	62
3	1968	All's Well That Ends Well	Bertram	0
4	1968	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Oberon	60
5	1972	The Darwin Adventure	Capt. Fitzroy	0
6	1972	Man of La Mancha	The Padre	66
7	1973	Gawain and the Green Knight	Narrator (voice)	46
8	1978	Danton's Death	Robespierre	0
9	1978	Sorry...	Michael - 'Private View'	0
10	1979	Ike	FM Sir Bernard Montgomery	62
11	1979	Churchill and the Generals	Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery	0
12	1979	Charlie Muffin	Cuthbertson	55
13	1980	Gauguin the Savage	Degas	0
14	1982	A Cotswold Death	Inspector Anthony Arrowsmith	70
15	1982	Passing Through	Richard	0
16	1983	Salad Days	Uncle Zed	0
17	1983	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sherlock Holmes	65
18	1983	The Sign of Four	Sherlock Holmes	64
19	1984	The Master of Ballantrae	Mr. MacKellar	60
20	1984	Slimming Down	Mr. Shrigley	0
21	1985	Monsignor Quixote	Bishop of Motopo	85
22	1985	Brazil	Mr. Warrenn	77
23	1985	Star Quality	Ray Malcolm	50
24	1986	Whoops Apocalypse	Rear Admiral Bendish	56
25	1987	Blunt	Anthony Blunt	48
26	1987	The Fourth Protocol	Sir Nigel Irvine	63
27	1987	The Devil's Disciple	General Burgoyne	60
28	1987	Cry Freedom	State Prosecutor	70
29	1988	Burning Secret	Edmund's Father	61
30	1989	The Winslow Boy	Sir Robert Morton, KC	60
31	1990	The Plot to Kill Hitler	Ludwig Beck	60
32	1990	King of the Wind	Bey of Tunis	64
33	1991	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead	Polonius	69
34	1992	Year of the Comet	Sir Mason Harwood	56
35	1992	An Ungentlemanly Act	His Excellency, Governor Rex Hunt	55
36	1993	Foreign Affairs	Edwin	70
37	1993	M. Butterfly	Ambassador Toulon	66
38	1993	Remember	Philip Rawlings	0
39	1993	Dirty Weekend	Nimrod	50
40	1994	Words Upon the Window Pane	Dr. Trench	0
41	1994	A Change of Place	Henri Chambertin	52
42	1995	Savage Play	Count	0
43	1996	Catherine the Great	Vorontzov	57
44	1996	The Treasure Seekers	Haig	53
45	1997	The Woman In White	Mr. Fairlie	67
46	1997	B.A.P.S	Manley	52
47	1997	A Royal Scandal	Narrator	70
48	1997	The Canterville Ghost	Simon de Canterville	0
49	1997	Incognito	Turley (prosecutor)	58
50	1997	The Fifth Province	Dr. Drudy	60
51	1998	Dark City	Mr. Book	73
52	1998	A Knight in Camelot	Merlin	54
53	1998	Alice Through the Looking Glass	Wasp	51
54	1999	The King and I	The Kralahome (voice)	54
55	2000	Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes	Dr. Joseph Bell	80
56	2000	102 Dalmatians	Mr. Torte	55
57	2000	3-D Halloween	Narrator	40
58	2001	From Hell	Sir Charles Warren	67
59	2002	The Life of Shakespeare	self	0
60	2004	Dæmos Rising	Narrator	57
61	2004	Nero	Septimus	60
62	2005	The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby	Judge	54
63	2005	Joyeux Noel	The Bishop	74
64	2005	The Booze Cruise II: The Treasure Hunt	Marcus Foster	80
65	2006	The Booze Cruise III: The Scattering	Marcus	73
66	2006	Twice Upon a Time	Lord Evelyn Gaylord	59
67	2007	Becoming Jane	Richter Langlois	73
68	2007	Hogfather	Death	68
69	2022	Memorial Memorial	Francis Urquhart (voice)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Mr. MacKellar	86
2	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
3	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Maximilien Robespierre	50
4	1969	Civilisation	Hamlet	81
5	1970	Play for Today	Inspector Anthony Arrowsmith	63
6	1971	Great Performances	Bishop of Motopo	53
7	1974	Playhouse	Richard	70
8	1979	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Bill Haydon	76
9	1981	Private Schulz	Major Neuheim	58
10	1982	The Woman in White		75
11	1982	The Woman in White	Frederick Fairlie	75
12	1983	Number 10		50
13	1984	Six Centuries of Verse	Self - Reader	60
14	1984	Mistral's Daughter	Adrien Avigdor	63
15	1986	Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy	Nehru	50
16	1987	Porterhouse Blue		71
17	1988	Troubles	Edward Spencer	100
18	1989	Twist of Fate	SS-Sturmbannführer Doctor Schlossberg	58
19	1990	The Phantom of the Opera	Cholet	72
20	1990	Chillers	Lee Mandeville	62
21	1990	The Gravy Train	Michael Spearpoint	80
22	1990	House of Cards	Francis Urquhart	81
23	1991	The Gravy Train Goes East	Michael Spearpoint	70
24	1992	Highlander: The Series	Max Leiner	74
25	1993	To Play the King	Francis Urquhart	80
26	1995	The Final Cut	Francis Urquhart	76
27	1999	The Magician's House	Stephen Tyler	55
28	2000	Gormenghast	Lord Groan	70
29	2001	Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes	Dr. Joseph Bell	78
30	2003	Strange	Canon Adolphus Black	65
31	2004	Imperium: Nero	Settimio	60
32	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Conway Jefferson	77
33	2005	Bleak House	Chancellor	82
34	2006	Hogfather	Death	76