Cyril Ritchard


Biography

Cyril Ritchard was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Ritchard marked his early career with roles in "Blackmail" (1929), the dramatic adaptation "The Winslow Boy" (1948) with Robert Donat and "Caesar and Cleopatra" (NBC, 1955-56). Later, Ritchard acted in "The Good Fairy" (1955-56), "Jack and the Beanstalk" (NBC, 1956-57) and "Christmas Tree" (NBC, 1958-59). He also...

Biography

Cyril Ritchard was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Ritchard marked his early career with roles in "Blackmail" (1929), the dramatic adaptation "The Winslow Boy" (1948) with Robert Donat and "Caesar and Cleopatra" (NBC, 1955-56). Later, Ritchard acted in "The Good Fairy" (1955-56), "Jack and the Beanstalk" (NBC, 1956-57) and "Christmas Tree" (NBC, 1958-59). He also appeared in "Half a Sixpence" (1968). Later in his career, Ritchard voiced characters in "The Hobbit" (NBC, 1977-78). Ritchard passed away in December 1977 at the age of 80.

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Blackmail (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Got A Real Criminal To Direct The director very much at play here, his cameo on the London underground, then protagonists Alice (Anny Ondra, voice by Joan Barry) and boyfriend policeman Frank (John Longden) feuding at tea, with witty insights about the pictures, in Alfred Hitchcok's first partial-talkie, Blackmail, 1929.
Blackmail (1929) -- (Movie Clip) I'd Better Go Polish-born Anny Ondra here as straying "Alice," is lip-synching to the off-camera voice of Joan Barry, Alfred Hitchcock directing his first talkie, quite deliberate with the shadow on the face of "the artist" Cyril Ritchard, who goes a bit too far for her, in Blackmail, 1929.
Piccadilly (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Everyone Wants To Come Clever and impressive opening credit sequence evidently shot on location at the famous “Circus,” from British International’s Piccadilly, 1929, directed by E. A. DuPont, introducing the main set, if not yet the stars (Anna May Wong, Gilda Gray, Jameson Thomas, Cyrill Ritchard and Charles Laughton).
Piccadilly (1929) -- (Movie Clip) One Little Chinese Girl London night club impresario Victor (Cyril Ritchard) looking into why dirty plates are escaping the kitchen, inquires at the scullery where everyone is enthralled by Shosho (Anna May Wong), then explaining to star Mabel (Gilda Gray), early in the English silent Piccadilly, 1929.
Reserved for Ladies -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits Opening credits for Hungarian-born Alexander Korda's first film as a director, Reserved for Ladies, 1932, from a story by equally Hungarian Ernest Vajda, starring Leslie Howard.

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