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Richard Ainley(1910-1967)

  • Actor
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Richard Ainley
A bumbling pants presser at an upscale hotel's valet service nurses an unrequited crush on a Broadway star. He gets more than he bargained for when she agrees to marry him, to spite her womanizing fiance, and encounters Nazi saboteurs.
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I Dood It (1943)
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Richard Ainley was born on 22 December 1910 in Stanmore, Middlesex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Frog (1937), Lady with Red Hair (1940) and As You Like It (1936). He was previously married to Rowena Woolf, Betzi Beaton and Ethel Glendinning. He died on 19 May 1967 in Muswell Hill, London, England, UK.
BornDecember 22, 1910
DiedMay 19, 1967(56)
BornDecember 22, 1910
DiedMay 19, 1967(56)
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Eleanor Powell, Richard Ainley, James Flavin, Thurston Hall, and Red Skelton in I Dood It (1943)
Richard Ainley and Wayne Morris in The Smiling Ghost (1941)
Melvyn Douglas, Richard Ainley, Lee Bowman, and Ann Sothern in Three Hearts for Julia (1943)
Richard Ainley, Desmond Tester, Geoffrey Toone, and John Wood in Mad Men of Europe (1940)
Melvyn Douglas, Richard Ainley, Lee Bowman, and Ann Sothern in Three Hearts for Julia (1943)
Richard Ainley and Ann Sothern in Three Hearts for Julia (1943)
Melvyn Douglas, Richard Ainley, Lee Bowman, and Ann Sothern in Three Hearts for Julia (1943)

Known for

Noah Beery, Gordon Harker, and Jack Hawkins in The Frog (1937)
The Frog
6.4
  • Ray Bennett
  • 1937
Claude Rains and Miriam Hopkins in Lady with Red Hair (1940)
Lady with Red Hair
6.3
  • Lou Payne
  • 1940
Laurence Olivier in As You Like It (1936)
As You Like It
5.8
  • Sylvius
  • 1936
Emergency-Ward 10 (1957)
Emergency-Ward 10
6.6
TV Series
  • Ambrose Pelham

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Actor

  • Emergency-Ward 10 (1957)
    Emergency-Ward 10
    • Ambrose Pelham
    • TV Series
    • 1965
  • Broken Dreams
    • Narrator (voice)
    • Short
    • 1949
  • Tobias and the Angel
    • The Archangel Rafael
    • TV Movie
    • 1947
  • Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, and Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra in I Dood It (1943)
    I Dood It
    • Larry West
    • 1943
  • Charles Laughton, Donna Reed, Binnie Barnes, and Richard Carlson in The Man from Down Under (1943)
    The Man from Down Under
    • Military Doctor (uncredited)
    • 1943
  • Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray in Above Suspicion (1943)
    Above Suspicion
    • Peter Galt
    • 1943
  • Lucille Ball and Red Skelton in Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
    Du Barry Was a Lady
    • Marching Rebel Behind King Louis (uncredited)
    • 1943
  • Melvyn Douglas and Ann Sothern in Three Hearts for Julia (1943)
    Three Hearts for Julia
    • Philip Barrows
    • 1943
  • Hedy Lamarr and Walter Pidgeon in White Cargo (1942)
    White Cargo
    • Mr. Worthing
    • 1942
  • Lucile Fairbanks in Passage from Hong Kong (1941)
    Passage from Hong Kong
    • Lt. Norman MacNeil-Fraser
    • 1941
  • Brenda Marshall, Wayne Morris, and Alexis Smith in The Smiling Ghost (1941)
    The Smiling Ghost
    • Cousin Tennant Bentley
    • 1941
  • Anthony Quinn and Joan Perry in Bullets for O'Hara (1941)
    Bullets for O'Hara
    • McKay Standish
    • 1941
  • Shining Victory (1941)
    Shining Victory
    • Dr. Hale
    • 1941
  • David Bruce and Brenda Marshall in Singapore Woman (1941)
    Singapore Woman
    • John Wetherby
    • 1941
  • Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, and Jack Mower in Knockout (1941)
    Knockout
    • Allison
    • 1941

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  • Alternative name
    • Richard Riddle
  • Born
    • December 22, 1910
    • Stanmore, Middlesex, England, UK
  • Died
    • May 19, 1967
    • Muswell Hill, London, England, UK(barbiturate (phenobarbitone) poisoning)
  • Spouses
      Rowena Woolf1961 - 1967 (his death, 3 children)
  • Other works
    He acted in Katriona and Elizabeth Sprigge's play, "Elisabeth of Austria," at the Garrick Theatre in London, England with Wanda Rotha, Gyles Isham, David King-Wood, and Charles Hickman in the cast. Campbell Gullan was director.
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    • 3 Articles
    • 1 Pictorial

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    Brother of Anthony Ainley.

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