- Richard Ainley
Infobox actor
name = Richard Ainley
birthname =
birthdate = birth date|1910|12|22|df=yes
location =Stanmore ,Middlesex
deathdate = death date and age|1967|5|18|1910|12|22
deathplace =
spouse =
children =Richard Ainley (
22 December 1910 -18 May 1967 ) was a stage and filmactor , son ofHenry Ainley and half-brother ofAnthony Ainley .Although according to the "All Movie Guide" his date of birth was
22 October 1910 ,The Internet Movie Database places it on22 December . In any case, he was born inStanmore ,Middlesex and made his stage debut in 1928 and initially used the stage name Richard Riddle/Riddell. His first motion picture appearance was in 1936 as Sylvius in "As You Like It ", which starred his father. Other roles included Ferdinand in the television movie of "The Tempest" (1939), Dr. Hale in "Shining Victory " (1941), and aForeign Office official in the thriller "Above Suspicion " (1943).Ainley married three times. He was divorced from his first two wives; his third wife Rowena Woolf died in 1968. He retired from film work following a disabling war wound while he was serving in the US Army to return to the stage. He was briefly principal of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the early 1960s, and as a teacher his pupils included
Tom Baker ,Tom Courtenay ,Diana Rigg ,Terry Palmer andAlbert Finney . He died in London in 1967.References
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=537&mod=bio All Movie Guide biography] . Accessed 11 October 2005.
External links
*imdb name|id=0014689|name=Richard Ainley
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp55637 Richard Ainley (1910-1967), Actor] from the National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom)
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