Ian Richardson (actor)

Ian Richardson
Birth date:	7 April 1934
Death date:	9 February 2007
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Narrator
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	Dæmos Rising
Main time period active:	2004
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Canterbury Tales, Man of La Mancha, Gawain and the Green Knight, Much Ado About Nothing, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Private Schultz, The Woman in White, Brass, Brazil, Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy, Cry Freedom, The Phantom of the Opera, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, House of Cards, M. Butterfly, 1914-1918, The Woman in White, Gormenghast, Bleak House, Becoming Jane
IMDb profile

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Ian Richardson CBE (7 April 1934-9 February 2007) narrated Reeltime Pictures' Doctor Who spin-off Dæmos Rising.

Personal life

He was also the father of Miles Richardson who appeared in Dæmos Rising. He was also the father-in-law of Beverley Cressman.

Career

He was best known for his role as Francis Urquhart in the House of Cards trilogy.

Richardson was a founding member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960.

Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham co-created an incarnation of the Doctor with Richardson's appearance for a series of fan novellas. This incarnation, said to be the Doctor's 42nd, was originally meant to appear in the epilogue of The Dying Days.

External links

• Ian Richardson at the Internet Movie Database