Ann Richards

Ann Richards

Nacimiento : 1917-12-13, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Muerte : 2006-08-24

Historia

Ann Richards was an Australian actress who, as Shirley Ann Richards (her full original name), achieved notability in Australian films, then moved to Hollywood to pursue an American screen career.

Perfil

Ann Richards

Películas

Breakdown
June Hannum
A boxer (William Bishop) jailed for murder proves his girlfriend's (Ann Richards) wealthy father and a ward boss framed him.
Voces de muerte
Sally Hunt Lord
El teléfono es el único medio que une a Leona Stevenson con el mundo exterior. Leona, directora de una fábrica de productos químicos, es hipocondríaca y está postrada en la cama a causa de una dolencia psicosomática. Su marido Henry es un hombre de origen modesto, pero muy ambicioso, que se casó con ella para mejorar su posición en la fábrica. Un día lo llama por teléfono y, entonces, se produce un cruce de líneas que le permite escuchar una conversación en la que dos personas hablan del inminente asesinato de una mujer.
Al filo de las nueve
Mavis Wilson
Cecily Harrington, luchando por una pequeña asignación, gana una fortuna en la lotería. En lugar de casarse con su novio, decide emprender un viaje. Un extraño, Manuel Cortez, viene a alquilar su casa y ella se enamora de él. Se casan y se van de luna de miel a una mansión aislada, sin percatarse que su flamante marido es un cazafortunas con varias esposas asesinadas en su haber.
Lost Honeymoon
Amy Atkins
An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service.
The Searching Wind
Emily Taney Hazen
With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.
Territorio de bandidos
Henryetta Alcott
Durante la creación de los Estados Unidos de América, una franja de tierra olvidada entre los Territorios Indios y los Estados de Colorado, Kansas, Nuevo México y Texas se convierte en el refugio y hogar de gran parte de los forajidos más famosos y despiadados del Salvaje Oeste. Allí deberá ir el Sheriff Mark Rowley (Randolph Scott) en busca de su hermano y ayudante John (James Warren), quien tras ser traicionado por el despiadado Marshal Bill Hampton (Morgan Conway), tuvo que huir con la banda del forajido Jesse James (Lawrence Tierney) a la ciudad de Quinto, en el corazón del Territorio de Forajidos. Tras llegar a Quinto, Mark Rowley conocerá a Henryetta Alcott (Ann Richards), la comprometida editora del periódico local que lucha por traer la legislación del estado en creación de Oklahoma a su tierra sin ley...
Cartas a mi amada
Dilly Carson
Roger pide a su compañero de armas, Allen, que escriba en su nombre cartas de amor a Victoria, joven a la que conoció en un encuentro breve en Inglaterra antes de ser enviado al frente italiano.
Un sueño americano
Anna O'Rourke Dangos
Stefan Dubechek (Brian Dennehy) es un campesino checo que emigra a los EEUU, donde un primo le consigue trabajo en una mina... pero, las aspiraciones de Stephen Dangos -como comenzará a llamarse en la tierra del tío Sam- son ilimitadas y con una fuerte voluntad se puede llegar muy lejos.
Niebla en el pasado
Bridget
Un militar británico que padece amnesia (Colman) se fuga de un hospital psiquiátrico y conoce a Paula (Garson), una mujer con la que emprende una nueva vida: se casa y prueba fortuna como escritor. Después de varios años de feliz convivencia, un día, viaja a Liverpool para intentar vender una de sus obras; allí sufre un accidente de tráfico, que le permite recuperar los recuerdos del pasado, pero se olvida completamente de su esposa.
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
Iris Headley
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.
The Woman in the House
Catherine Starr
This short looks at the illness anthropophobia, the fear of people. In 1901, young Catherine Starr, who lives in a small English coastal town, has an argument with her fiancé. He leaves her house, goes off to serve in the Boer War, and dies of malaria. Catherine blames herself for his death and fears others will also blame her. She does not leave her house for forty years. Groceries are delivered to the house, but no one sees who retrieves them. When the Nazis bomb her house in September 1941, she is forced to cope with the outside world.
100,000 Cobbers
(as Shirley Ann Richards)
Filmed at Liverpool Military Camp (Sydney) in 1941 and using national servicemen to lend authenticity, this film was one of many sponsored by the federal government during World War II to boost armed forces recruitment. The film also features recognisable actors of the day including Grant Taylor, Shirley Ann Richards and John Fleeting, who had appeared for director Ken G Hall in feataure films made by the Sydney-based Cinesound Productions.
Come Up Smiling
Eve Cameron (as Shirley Ann Richards)
Barney O'Hara (Will Mahoney) and his young daughter Pat (Jean Hatton) tour the carnival circuit with a side show act, but when Pat is asked to sing at a party being given by a wealthy land-owner, her voice fails.
Dad and Dave Come to Town
Jill (as Shirley Ann Richards)
Dad and Dave Come to Town is a 1938 Australian comedy film directed by Ken G. Hall, the third in the 'Dad and Dave' comedy series starring Bert Bailey. It was the feature film debut of Peter Finch
Lovers and Luggers
Lorna Quidley (as Shirley Ann Richards)
Daubeney Carshott, a concert pianist, leaves London to dive for pearls on Thursday Island in the South Seas at the whim of Stella Raff, his fiancée. Once there, he discovers that the life he leads as a pearl diver is better in every way than his former existence as a social-lion pianist. He meets and falls in love with Lorna Quidley, after learning this Stella had send other suitors off in quest of a giant pearl for her.
Tall Timbers
Joan Burbridge (as Shirley Ann Richards)
A young forestry graduate, Jim Thornton, is involved in a race between timber companies to fill a major contract. Jim has joined the crew of a genial timber baron, Burbridge, and foils attempts by a rival, Blake, to sabotage their work. J. Alan Kenyon's special effects are the highlights of the film with comic relief provided by Joe Valli as a Scottish timber-train driver amorously pursued by a shrill-voiced maid of the Burbridge's country house.
It Isn't Done
Patricia Blaydon (as Shirley Ann Richards)
Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway),a simple Australian farmer inherits a castle and a title in England, and moves his family from the farm to the castle. He also inherits a very stuffy, prim-and-proper butler who constantly reprimands Blaydon whenever he disobeys aristocratic protocol...which he often does.