John Richardson

John Richardson

Born: January 19, 1934
Died: January 5, 2021
in Worthing, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
John Richardson (January 19, 1934 - January 5, 2021) was an English actor, who appeared in movies from the 1950s until the 1990s.

He appeared in many Italian films, including Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960). His best known role was perhaps in One Million Years B.C. (1966), in which he played a grunting caveman who fell in love with Raquel Welch. He had small roles in the remake of The 39 Steps (1959); Tender is the Night (1962) as a young man, uncredited; and in On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970) with Barbra Streisand. Richardson was cast as the male lead in both She and One Million Years BC. He was considered for the role of James Bond, but lost out to George Lazenby.

Movies for John Richardson...

From Rollerball to Rome - Reflection on a Sci-Fi Classic
Title: From Rollerball to Rome - Reflection on a Sci-Fi Classic
Released: April 17, 2020
Type: Movie
Produced for the "ultimate edition" of "Rollerball" from Capelight Pictures in Germany, 2020. The Blu-Ray of the original 1975 classic comes packed with this fascinating 85-minute documentary that charts the influence of "Rollerball" on contemporary scifi cinema, including "Mad Max", "The Warriors" and "Escape from New York", as well as the Italian variant that struck the big time with motion picture successes such as "The Bronx Warriors" franchise, "The New Barbarians" and the wonderfully trashy "Endgame".
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Milner
Title: Milner
Character: Edward
Released: December 19, 1994
Type: Movie
Stephen Milner is a solicitor, but he fits uneasily into the world of Lewis Strange and Partners, who are an upmarket firm of solicitors. The film follows Milner's fraught relationship with a lucrative client, Ron Jesson. When one of his offices goes up in flames, the press are convinced that Ron arranged the fire for insurance purposes. Milner also has to cope with an estranged wife, batty mother and debt ridden younger brother.
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The Church
Title: The Church
Character: Architect
Released: March 10, 1989
Type: Movie
In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence and demonic vengeance.
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School of Thieves 2
Title: School of Thieves 2
Character: Ricco Gondoliere
Released: September 22, 1987
Type: Movie
In this second episode Dalmazio and Egisto come, respectively, from the prison and the insane asylum. They risk a second arrest for their awkwardness so they return from their "uncle" who is willing to help them.
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Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Title: Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
Character: Leo Vincey / Killikrates (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.
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Murder Obsession
Title: Murder Obsession
Character: Oliver
Released: February 24, 1981
Type: Movie
Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film project, who are given a rather cool reception by the superstitious housekeeper Oliver. Soon rude things begin happening to some of the guests, and Michael fears a repeat of his nightmare past is in progress.
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Blue Paradise
Title: Blue Paradise
Character: Kris
Released: January 3, 1980
Type: Movie
Another imitation of "The Blue Lagoon", starring Don Monahan (from the "Porky"-movies) and Ingmar Bergman's daughter Anna as the young lovers.
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Fever of 40!
Title: Fever of 40!
Character: Harry Petersen
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A forty-year-old man spends his working days surrounded by beautiful women, but he dares not do anything with any.
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Battle of the Stars
Title: Battle of the Stars
Character: Captain Mike Layton
Released: February 17, 1978
Type: Movie
An alien vessel manages to break the earth defense systems. Captain Layton is sent to investigate and find the invaders. Together with friends from the planet Ganymed he discovers the enemies in a hidden underground city on earth.
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War of the Planets
Title: War of the Planets
Character: Captain Alex Hamilton
Released: September 23, 1977
Type: Movie
A strange signal arrives on the Earth disturbing all communications, while an UFO appears above the Antarctic sea. Captain Alex Hamilton is sent with his spaceship and crew to the space outside the Solar System to find the origin of that signal. They reach an unknown planet where a giant robot enslaved a whole population of humanoids by taking their psychic energies.
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Sawed-Off Shotgun
Title: Sawed-Off Shotgun
Released: August 5, 1977
Type: Movie
Giovanni Molet is sent to jail for the murder of two of the Carraro family over a feud over land. While incarcerated, a vendetta is carried out on Molet's brother who is killed by the Carraros. While being transferred to another prison, Molet manages to escape and goes on the run. He holes up in a large villa owned by a newlywed couple and slowly starts to prepare for his revenge.
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Nine Guests for a Crime
Title: Nine Guests for a Crime
Character: Lorenzo
Released: January 12, 1977
Type: Movie
Nine members of an extremely rich and hateful family have decided to have a reunion on a remote island in the Mediterranean. No sooner than their arrival, old grudges, resentments, and feuds make themselves known, along with allusions to some more macabre events in their past. But when their boats are sabotaged, thus stranding them without any connection to the mainland, it becomes clear that someone is not willing to let old wounds heal, a fact made all the more clear as bodies start to pile up...
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4 Billion in 4 Minutes
Title: 4 Billion in 4 Minutes
Character: Francesco Vitale
Released: September 10, 1976
Type: Movie
Obscure, action-packed euro-crime yarn about an imprisoned genius who organizes a bank robbery of 4 billion Lire from behind bars. It's up to superhunk Antonio Sabato to save the day, foil the baddies and bed the chick. There are great car chases and wrecks, and an occasionally enjoyable synth score.
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Duck in Orange Sauce
Title: Duck in Orange Sauce
Character: John
Released: December 19, 1975
Type: Movie
When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly accepts. But when he sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover, the trip turns out to be part of an elaborate plan to win his wife back.
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Reflections in Black
Title: Reflections in Black
Character: Inspector Lavina
Released: October 3, 1975
Type: Movie
A woman dressed in black is murdering young women. The police question lawyer Anselmi for whom one of the girls worked as a secretary, and it turns out that all the victims were friends of lawyer's wife Leonora.
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Eyeball
Title: Eyeball
Character: Mark Burton
Released: January 24, 1975
Type: Movie
A group of American tourists is traveling through Spain when two of them are murdered by a mysterious serial killer who removes an eyeball from every one of his victims. The tour presses on as the murders continue, with the travelers and the police trying to deduce which one of them is the killer.
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La bellissima estate
Title: La bellissima estate
Character: Vittorio
Released: November 20, 1974
Type: Movie
A mother keeps making excuses for why her son's father has not returned home. Jon Marco, just celebrating his ninth birthday, concludes his parents have separated and develops a plan to place himself in dad's care. Along with a new friend they run away to Milan to search for Marco's father. Once executed, our little hero learns the truth about his famous race-car driving father. Can mom and his pals help him deal with the trauma?
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The Tree with Pink Leaves
Title: The Tree with Pink Leaves
Character: Andrea, padre di Marco
Released: September 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Little Marco suffers from his parents' divorce. He runs away from home and is hit by a car. He drags on but eventually dies under a tree with pink leaves, remembering a story his grandmother told him.
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Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment
Title: Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment
Character: Lorenzo Viotto
Released: November 27, 1973
Type: Movie
A beautiful but poor young girl finds all the money and material goods she never had when she becomes the girlfriend of a crime boss, but soon learns that there is a price to be paid for that kind of life.
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Torso
Title: Torso
Character: Prof. Franz
Released: January 4, 1973
Type: Movie
A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.
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Frankenstein '80
Title: Frankenstein '80
Character: Karl Schein
Released: December 12, 1972
Type: Movie
A mad scientist creates a monster called "Mosaico," who breaks out of the laboratory to hunt down and kill beautiful women.
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Title: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Character: Robert Tentrees
Released: June 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.
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A Candidate for a Killing
Title: A Candidate for a Killing
Character: Nick Warfield / André Jarvis / Riquelli
Released: August 22, 1969
Type: Movie
A traveler becomes a target for various crime syndicates when it turns out he's a dead ringer for a wanted mercenary.
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Execution
Title: Execution
Character: Bill Coler / John Coler
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Clips, a bounty killer, is after one John Coler, who has fooled him, keeping all of a loot he should have shared with him. He finally catches his prey only to discover that the man is a Coler all right but not the expected one.
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The Vengeance of She
Title: The Vengeance of She
Character: Killikrates
Released: April 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Beautiful young European girl, Carol, is possessed by the spirit of Ayesha – “She, who must be obeyed” – and led to the lost city of Kuma, where she is destined to become queen.
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A Nun at the Crossroads
Title: A Nun at the Crossroads
Character: Dr. Pierre Lemmon
Released: December 21, 1967
Type: Movie
During an uprising in the Belgian Congo, a convent of nuns are besieged and the Reverend Mother is killed and Sister Maria is raped. Returning to Belgium, Sister Maria finds out to her horror that she is pregnant. Rejected by her family and her sister, she is told by the Vatican that she is supposed to either give the baby to the church and still be a nun or keep the baby and leave the order. This film follows her decision.
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On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
Title: On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
Character: Dragone
Released: December 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.
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John the Bastard
Title: John the Bastard
Character: John Donald Tenorio
Released: November 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Johnny Donald, a cynical seducer of women, discovers he is actually the son of Don Diego Tenorio, a wealthy Mexican landowner. Accompanied by his trusty servant Morenillo, he travels south in search of vengeance and riches, but manages to deflower and make enemies all along the way until he finally meets his match in the person of a Mormon assassin and a stone statue.
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The Tough One
Title: The Tough One
Character: Daniel
Released: December 15, 1966
Type: Movie
The elderly O'Hara, owner of a fortune in emeralds, offers half of his estate to whoever manages to get him out of jail. The adventurer Don Casey arrives in the town of Guaynas, ruled by the tyrant Villarde, to fulfill that wish.
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One Million Years B.C.
Title: One Million Years B.C.
Character: Tumak
Released: November 24, 1966
Type: Movie
As the Earth wrestles with its agonizing birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes. When two people from opposing clans fall in love, existing conventions are shattered forever as each tribe struggles for supremacy and Man embarks on his tortuous voyage of civilization.
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She
Title: She
Character: Leo
Released: April 18, 1965
Type: Movie
The lost city of Kuma is ruled by the cruel, arrogant, beautiful queen, Ayesha, gifted with eternal life. She lures Leo Vincey into her world, seeing in him the reincarnation of the lover she long ago murdered in a fit of violent jealousy. Against all advice Leo is determined to stay and Ayesha persuades him to bathe in the flame of eternal youth... with disastrous consequences.
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Tender Is the Night
Title: Tender Is the Night
Character: Young Man Being Photographed (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1962
Type: Movie
Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.
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Pirates of Tortuga
Title: Pirates of Tortuga
Character: Percy
Released: August 25, 1961
Type: Movie
After a lengthy voyage, Capt. Bart docks his ship in a London harbor and is given a new mission by British Admiralty: capture the notorious Henry Morgan, a pirate who has been wreaking havoc throughout the Caribbean. After recruiting some former shipmates for his crew, Capt. Bart sets sail in search of the infamous buccaneer, and is joined by a beautiful female stowaway in the process.
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Black Sunday
Title: Black Sunday
Character: Dr. Andrej Gorobec / Dr. Andreas Gorobec
Released: August 11, 1960
Type: Movie
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant, Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
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The League of Gentlemen
Title: The League of Gentlemen
Character: Elizabeth's Lover (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
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Sapphire
Title: Sapphire
Character: Student
Released: November 2, 1959
Type: Movie
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
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The Heart of a Man
Title: The Heart of a Man
Character: Official
Released: August 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie tries his hand as a boxer, a bouncer and a commissionaire, and finally finds success as a singer. He also falls for the charms of night club chanteuse Julie, and this leads to further success when he wins a recording contract.
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Bachelor of Hearts
Title: Bachelor of Hearts
Character: Robin
Released: December 12, 1958
Type: Movie
A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.