#Richard wordsworth movie#

Wordsworth's intense eyes and resonant voice made him a natural for a stage career, though not necessarily for traditional leading man roles - he specialized in classical theatrical roles during the first decade or so of his career, and enjoyed a huge success as well in 1959 in the musical Lock Up Your Daughters. Born in Halesowen, Worcestershire, England in 1915, he was the great-great-grandson of the poet William Wordsworth, and initially set out for a career in the church, until he was bitten by the acting bug. But it was in science fiction and horror that Wordsworth cut his most memorial on-screen figure, for his work in three of those films. Gashford in Barnaby Rudge) to the 1970 international film release of Song of Norway (as Hans Christian Andersen).

#Richard wordsworth movie#

Interspersed among his stage work, however, were some three dozen or so movie and television performances, in everything from 1950s mini-series adaptations of Dickens (Newman Noggs in Nicholas Nickleby Mr. British actor Richard Wordsworth was primarily a theater actor across a career of 40 years.