ABSTRACT
Ian Richardson was born in Edinburgh in 1934. He began his career at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company, playing such parts as Hamlet, John Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest and Adolph in Creditors. He went to Stratford and joined the RSC to play numerous roles. Amongst them were: Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors, The Herald in Marat/Sade, and the title roles in Coriolanus and Pericles. He also played Prospero in The Tempest, alternated Richard of Bolingbroke and Richard (with Richard Pasco) in Richard II, Berowne in Love's Labour's Lost, and the title role in Richard III. Richardson made his first London appearance at the Aldwych during his tenure with the RSC, playing Count Malatesi in The Duchess o f Malfi and Edmund in King Lear. He toured Europe and the USSR with Lear and The Comedy of Errors, with which he made his New York debut. This was shortly followed by a New York run as Marat in Marat/Sade.
