Kenneth Richmond

Kenneth Richmond

Kenneth Alan Richmond (10 July 1926 – 3 August 2006) was a British wrestler. He won a bronze medal at the 1952 Olympics and was also a whale ship crewman before he got into the gong business. He stayed fit enough into old age to win medals for rollerblading and windsurfing in his 60s.

Though he made a memorable appearance as the wrestler Nikolai in Jules Dassin's "Night and the City", Richmond was most recognizable as the shirtless gongman banging the enormous gong preceding the opening credits for J. Arthur Rank's famed British productions of the Rank Organisation (movies such as "Great Expectations", "Black Narcissus", "The Red Shoes", and "Kind Hearts and Coronets"). He was a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses.

He died at age 80 in his home in Christchurch, England. According to the BBC, before he died, he revealed to friends a closely-guarded secret that the gong was a papier-mâché stage prop.

ources

*London "Daily Mirror", 12 August 2006
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/lastword_18aug2006.shtml BBC Radio 4 "Last Word"] , 18 August 2006

External links

*imdb name|name=Ken Richmond|id=0725125


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