Ann Richards

Ann Richards

Born: December 13, 1917
Died: August 24, 2006
in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Ann Richards was an Australian actress who, as Shirley Ann Richards (her full original name), achieved notability in Australian films, then moved to Hollywood to pursue an American screen career.

Movies for Ann Richards...

Title: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Character: Thunder Mountain Woman (voice)
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: TV
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.
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Breakdown
Title: Breakdown
Character: June Hannum
Released: July 16, 1952
Type: Movie
A boxer (William Bishop) jailed for murder proves his girlfriend's (Ann Richards) wealthy father and a ward boss framed him.
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Sorry, Wrong Number
Title: Sorry, Wrong Number
Character: Sally Hunt Lord
Released: September 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
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Love from a Stranger
Title: Love from a Stranger
Character: Mavis Wilson
Released: November 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
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Lost Honeymoon
Title: Lost Honeymoon
Character: Amy Atkins
Released: March 29, 1947
Type: Movie
An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.
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The Searching Wind
Title: The Searching Wind
Character: Emily Taney Hazen
Released: August 9, 1946
Type: Movie
With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.
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Badman's Territory
Title: Badman's Territory
Character: Henryetta Alcott
Released: May 4, 1946
Type: Movie
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: Dilly Carson
Released: October 26, 1945
Type: Movie
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."
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An American Romance
Title: An American Romance
Character: Anna O'Rourke Dangos
Released: April 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
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Random Harvest
Title: Random Harvest
Character: Bridget
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.
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Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
Title: Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
Character: Iris Headley
Released: November 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
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The Woman in the House
Title: The Woman in the House
Character: Catherine Starr
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
This short looks at the illness anthropophobia, the fear of people. In 1901, young Catherine Starr, who lives in a small English coastal town, has an argument with her fiancé. He leaves her house, goes off to serve in the Boer War, and dies of malaria. Catherine blames herself for his death and fears others will also blame her. She does not leave her house for forty years. Groceries are delivered to the house, but no one sees who retrieves them. When the Nazis bomb her house in September 1941, she is forced to cope with the outside world.
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100,000 Cobbers
Title: 100,000 Cobbers
Character: (as Shirley Ann Richards)
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Filmed at Liverpool Military Camp (Sydney) in 1941 and using national servicemen to lend authenticity, this film was one of many sponsored by the federal government during World War II to boost armed forces recruitment. The film also features recognisable actors of the day including Grant Taylor, Shirley Ann Richards and John Fleeting, who had appeared for director Ken G Hall in feataure films made by the Sydney-based Cinesound Productions.
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Come Up Smiling
Title: Come Up Smiling
Character: Eve Cameron (as Shirley Ann Richards)
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Barney O'Hara (Will Mahoney) and his young daughter Pat (Jean Hatton) tour the carnival circuit with a side show act, but when Pat is asked to sing at a party being given by a wealthy land-owner, her voice fails.
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Dad and Dave Come to Town
Title: Dad and Dave Come to Town
Character: Jill (as Shirley Ann Richards)
Released: September 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Dad and Dave Come to Town is a 1938 Australian comedy film directed by Ken G. Hall, the third in the 'Dad and Dave' comedy series starring Bert Bailey. It was the feature film debut of Peter Finch
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Lovers and Luggers
Title: Lovers and Luggers
Character: Lorna Quidley (as Shirley Ann Richards)
Released: March 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Daubeney Carshott, a concert pianist, leaves London to dive for pearls on Thursday Island in the South Seas at the whim of Stella Raff, his fiancée. Once there, he discovers that the life he leads as a pearl diver is better in every way than his former existence as a social-lion pianist. He meets and falls in love with Lorna Quidley, after learning this Stella had send other suitors off in quest of a giant pearl for her.
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Tall Timbers
Title: Tall Timbers
Character: Joan Burbridge (as Shirley Ann Richards)
Released: August 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A young forestry graduate, Jim Thornton, is involved in a race between timber companies to fill a major contract. Jim has joined the crew of a genial timber baron, Burbridge, and foils attempts by a rival, Blake, to sabotage their work. J. Alan Kenyon's special effects are the highlights of the film with comic relief provided by Joe Valli as a Scottish timber-train driver amorously pursued by a shrill-voiced maid of the Burbridge's country house.
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It Isn't Done
Title: It Isn't Done
Character: Patricia Blaydon (as Shirley Ann Richards)
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway),a simple Australian farmer inherits a castle and a title in England, and moves his family from the farm to the castle. He also inherits a very stuffy, prim-and-proper butler who constantly reprimands Blaydon whenever he disobeys aristocratic protocol...which he often does.