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Actor Ian Richardson dies

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  • 09-02-2007 4:05pm
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    mike65
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    Great actor, capable of both creey nastyness and warmth always has a place in TV history for playing Francis Urquhart in House of Cards

    Mike.


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    The Sparrow
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    He was brilliant in House of Cards. RIP F U


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    Mr. Book is dead.


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    jos28
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    Was he Natasha and Miranda Richardsons Dad ?


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    mickd
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    No he was Damien Richardsons Dad


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    mike65
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    Nat and Miranda are the children of Vanessa Redgrave and the late Tony Richardson (director stage/tv/screeen).

    Mike.


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    strassenwolf
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    mike65 wrote:
    Great actor, capable of both creey nastyness and warmth always has a place in TV history for playing Francis Urquhart in House of Cards

    Mike, you might say that...but I couldn't possibly comment.:D


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    McSween
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    strassenwolf wrote:
    Mike, you might say that...but I couldn't possibly comment.:D

    brilliant :D

    great actor, i bought house of cards last year, couldnt stop watching it-he is excellent in mistral's daughter and as sherlock holmes also


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    Rb
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    Who?


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    grumpytrousers
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    rb_ie wrote:
    Who?

    House of cards was one of the finest bits of television produced by the BBC. Ever. Adapted from a book by Michael Dobbs. Two sequels were done.

    The premise was that Ian Richardson played a high ranking Tory named Francis Urquart and was passed over for promotion by the PM. He doesn't take kindly to this, and the show followed his machinations as he plotted the downfall of the prime minister and his own ascent.

    It was brilliant; I didn't see it all, but it was one of the first Television shows where the '4th curtain' was broken in in. In other words, Urquart would look straight into the camera and tell YOU the viewer what he was thinking, etc.

    It was a tour de force by Richardson, and pretty much wrote the textbook on how politicial dramas should be presented and, in Richardsons case, acted.

    That's who...


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    Rb
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    Ah, never saw House Of Cards. Unfortunate, RIP.


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