David Strathairn will appear as the father, the role taken by Ralph Richardson on screen.

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In 1992 he was back on the London stage in "No Man's Land" (1974), as Hirst, the part originally played by Ralph Richardson.

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His performance with Sir Ralph Richardson in a Royal Court production of a play by David Storey in 1970 started a Gielgud revival.

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He barely mentions a New Yorker series written towards the end of his life: long profiles of vivid characters he admired, such as Mel Brooks, Johnny Carson, Ralph Richardson and Tom Stoppard.

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In the first decade, Jackson produced a string of world premieres, and his theatre soon became a forcing house for new acting talent, including such familiar names as Laurence Olivier, Edith Evans, Stewart Grainger and Ralph Richardson.

BBC: Birmingham town hall

This is not to suggest the Bard of Hogwarts is up there with the Bard of Avon, only that her words turn into music coming out of the mouths of such performers as Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane and Miranda Richardson.

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