Richard Greene
- For other uses, see Richard Greene (disambiguation).
Richard Greene (25 August, 1918 - 1 June, 1985) was a noted British movie and television actor.
He was a descendant of the cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene and was of Irish Catholic extraction, being born in Plymouth, England.
A matinee idol who appeared in more than 40 films, he was perhaps best known for the long-running British TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood, which ran from 1955 to 1960.
He was twice married:
- The Anglo-Spanish actress Patricia Medina (1950-1960), who became Joseph Cotten's second and final wife.
- Greene died in London, aged 66, of complications from a brain tumour.
Filmography
- Against All Odds (Blood of Fu Manchu) (1969)
- The Bandits of Corsica (1953)
- Beyond the Curtain (1961)
- The Black Castle (1952)
- Captain Scarlett (1953)
- The Castle of Fu Manchu (1968)
- Contraband Spain (Contrabando) (1955)
- Coriolanus (1951) (made for TV)
- The Desert Hawk (1950)
- Don't Take It to Heart (1945)
- The Fan (Lady Windermere's Fan) (1949)
- The Fighting O'Flynn (1949)
- Flying Fortress (1942)
- Forever Amber (1947)
- Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
- Gaiety George (Showtime) (1946)
- Here I Am a Stranger (1939)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
- I Was an Adventuress (1940)
- Island of the Lost (1968)
- Kentucky (1938)
- Little Old New York (1940)
- The Little Princess (1939)
- Lorna Doone (1951)
- My Daughter Joy (Operation X) (1950)
- My Lucky Star (1938)
- Now Barabbas (1949)
- Robin Hood's Greatest Adventures (1956)
- Robin Hood, the Movie (1958)
- Robin Hood: The Quest for the Crown (1958)
- Rogue's March (1952)
- Shadow of the Eagle (1950)
- Sing As We Go (1934) (bit part)
- Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
- Submarine Patrol (1938)
- Sword of Sherwood Forest (1961)
- That Dangerous Age (If This Be Sin) (1949)
- Unpublished Story (1942)
- The Yellow Canary (1943)
External links
also the imperial wizard of the mississippi white knights of the kkk
Categories
1918 births | 1985 deaths | Brain tumour deaths | People of Irish descent in Great Britain | People from Plymouth | Natives of Devon | Roman Catholic entertainers