Richard Wordsworth Net Worth

Richard Wordsworth Net Worth is
$16 Million

Richard Wordsworth Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Richard Wordsworth (19 January 1915 – 21 November 1993) was an English character actor. He was the great-great-grandson of the poet William Wordsworth.As a young man he followed in the footsteps of his clergyman father, reading Divinity at Cambridge University. But he quickly found acting more to his taste and, after performing at the Cambridge Footlights, he decided to study drama at the Embassy School of Acting in London.This proved an excellent choice. He quickly developed a talent for character acting which sustained him and his family through a long and richly varied career. In classical theatre he worked with John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Anthony Quayle and Richard Burton. After successful Shakespearian seasons at the Old Vic and Stratford-upon-Avon, he starred in the musical Lock Up Your Daughters which launched the Mermaid Theatre in London. He also found success as Captain Hook in several Christmas productions of Peter Pan. Later he would tour Australia as Fagin in the musical Oliver which he also produced.His film career included a standout performance as the monstrous astronaut in The Quatermass Xperiment, a highly regarded cult film which launched Hammer Horror Films. Later he played a scene as a sinister taxidermist with Jimmy Stewart (whom he described as 'a perfect gentleman') in Alfred Hitchcock's second version of The Man Who Knew Too Much. He also played leading parts in British TV dramas such as Hunting Tower and The Tripods.In the final decades of his life he developed The Bliss of Solitude a one-man tribute to his great ancestor with which he toured England, Scotland and the United States. He also founded the Wordsworth Summer School - a week of poetry, lectures and walks in his beloved English Lake District.

Date Of BirthJanuary 19, 1915
Died1993-11-21
Place Of BirthHalesowen, Worcestershire, England, UK
Height5' 11" (1.8 m)
ProfessionActor
NationalityBritish
Star SignCapricorn
#Fact
1Studied drama at the Embassy School of Acting in London.
2Son of a clergyman.
3In the early 1980s he was a guest professor in the English department at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he directed a production of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" with himself in the role of Shylock.
4Great-great-grandson of the poet William Wordsworth, Richard lived his later life in a cottage in Grassmere in the Lake District England. He was known to regularily walk the 'Horseshoe' even into his late 70s. (The 'Horseshoe' is a high altitude walk around the Fairfield Heights, connecting Grassmere, Rydal and Ambleside)
5After his death, his cottage was bought by rock star Sting. Sting was said to have bought the beautiful lakeland cottage as a Valentine's Day gift for his wife.

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Mystery!: Campion1989TV SeriesProfessor Farrington
Chocky's Challenge1986TV SeriesProfessor Ferris
The Tripods1984-1985TV SeriesJulius
The Life and Death of King John1984TV MovieCardinal Pandulph
The Old Men at the Zoo1983TV SeriesMatthew Price
The Greeks: A Journey in Space and Time1980TV SeriesThe Storyteller
Escape1980TV Series
Crown Court1977TV SeriesKenneth James Hoistpetard
The Regiment1972TV SeriesLt Col Gaunt-Seymour
Song of Norway1970Hans Christian Andersen
ITV Playhouse1970TV SeriesEdgar Gaveston
ITV Saturday Night Theatre1969TV SeriesAnthony Millington-Chope
Lock Up Your Daughters!1969Coupler
Thirty-Minute Theatre1969TV SeriesFr. Demitry Hermogen
Contrasts1968TV SeriesPoet
Dr. Finlay's Casebook1966TV SeriesDr. Aitken
R31964-1965TV SeriesDr. Peter Travers
Detective1964TV SeriesProfessor Gervase Fenn
The Curse of the Werewolf1961The Beggar
Doctor Knock1961TV SeriesDr. Knock
The Cheaters1961TV SeriesLester
Barnaby Rudge1960TV SeriesMr. Gashford
On Trial1960TV SeriesCharles Fearne
BBC Sunday-Night Play1960TV Mini-SeriesIchneumon fly Commander-in-chief of the Yellows
The Four Just Men1959TV SeriesWater / Curator
The DuPont Show of the Month1959TV SeriesGhost of Hamlet's Father
The Revenge of Frankenstein1958Up Patient
The Camp on Blood Island1958Dr. Robert Keiller
More Than Robbery1958TV SeriesTredford
Nicholas Nickleby1957TV SeriesNewman Noggs
Hour of Mystery1957TV SeriesSir Charles Jasper
The Power and the Glory1957TV MovieTench
Huntingtower1957TV SeriesJohn Heritage
Producers' Showcase1957TV SeriesTybalt
Time Without Pity1957Maxwell - the MP
Sword of Freedom1957TV SeriesProcelli / Coppa
The Man Who Knew Too Much1956Ambrose Chappell Jr (uncredited)
The Sleeping Beauty1955TV MovieThe King
The Storm Bell1955TV MovieMr. Fenner
The Quatermass Xperiment1955Victor Carroon
The Gordon Honour1955TV SeriesKing Arthur
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre1954-1955TV SeriesThersites Tybalt
Stage by Stage1954TV SeriesColonel Briton
Madame Pepita1952TV MovieAugusto

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss2010TV Mini-Series documentaryVictor Carroon

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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