Lee Richardson (actor)

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Lee Richardson (born September 11, 1926 in Chicago , Illinois , † October 2, 1999 in New York ) was an American theater and film actor .

life and work

Lee Richardson read Shakespeare and Noël Coward in his youth and served in the US Army Air Corps during World War II . After his discharge from the military, he took classes at Loyola University and acting classes at the Goodman Theater School in Chicago.

In New York he made his debut on the off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams ' Summer and Smoke with Geraldine Page , where, at the age of 24, he caught the attention of Al Hirschfeld , who made four drawings by Lee Richardson. In 1962 he joined with George C. Scott in Central Park in a performance of The Merchant of Venice ( The Merchant of Venice ), and later became a founding member of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where he met Jessica Tandy , Hume Cronyn, Zoe Caldwell, Douglas Campbell and Rita Gam worked together. After four years at the American Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Connecticut, he returned to Broadway and has appeared in Find Your Way Home, The Texas Trilogy and Father's Day , among others .

For his Broadway appearance in Vivat! Vivat Regina! Lee Richardson was nominated for a Tony Award in 1973 . In addition, Lee Richardson acted as a speaker in 100 advertising trailers.

Lee Richardson had his first television appearances in 1954 in Studio One in Hollywood and Playhouse 90 and appeared in a total of 250 episodes. For the first time in a Hollywood production he worked as a narrator in the Sidney Lumets Network in 1976, in 1985 he impersonated Dominic Prizzi in The Honor of the Prizzis and in 1992 in Soft Eyes Don't Lie A Hasidic Rebbe . As a character actor, Richardson was also valued on television and appeared in about fifty different productions from 1956 to 1999.

His wife Elaine Rower Richardson died in 1996 after 35 years of marriage. Lee Richardson left a daughter and son and sister, Dolores Levine.

Filmography (selection)

Theater (selection)

  • 1960: Summer and Smoke
  • 1962: The Merchant of Venice (Merchant of Venice)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Lee Richardson, 73, an Actor Noted for His English Accents ( English ) The New York Times . October 10, 1999. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ Lee Richardson . imdb. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Richardson, Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , United States
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1999
Place of death New York , United States