Tony Richardson was an English theatre and Academy Award-winning film director and producer. Representative of the British "New Wave" of directors, he developed the ideas that led to the formation of the English Stage Company, along with his close friend George Goetschius and George Devine. As a young director, Richardson directed plays such as "Pericles" at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1958. Wikipedia
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Cecil Antonio Richardson was born on 5 June 1928 in Shipley, Yorkshire, where his family owned a chemist's shop. www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/451352/index.html