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Dateline: 3rd August, 2011
Richard Pearson (1918 - 2011) Actor Richard Pearson has died just a day after his 93rd birthday. Born in Monmouth, he began his career in 1937 at the age of 18 at Collins Music Hall in Islington. He served in the army during the war, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel, and after worked in some of the smaller off-West End theatres. By the mid-fifties he was appearing in the West End in the drawing-room comedies which were typical of the period but in 1958 he appeared as Stanley in Pinter's The Birthday Party at the Lyric Hammersmith, a role he took on again in an ITV production in 1960. This led to appearances in Peter Shaffer's The Public Eye (1962, with Maggie Smith), in Edward Albee's Tiny Alice (1970), in Robert Bolt's Vivat! Vivat Regina! at Chichester and She Stoops to Conquer (1972). His first TV appearance - the first of many - was in 1947 and he was subsequently seen in The Wind in the Willows (voicing Mole), One Foot in the Grave, Men Behaving Badly, My Good Friend and Marple: The Moving Finger. Film work included Scrooge (1951), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Tess (Roman Polanski: 1971), Macbeth (Polanski: 1979) and Pirates (1986).
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