A Christmas Carol - Part 5 (Ralph Richardson, Paul Scofield)

A Christmas Carol - Part 5 (Ralph Richardson, Paul Scofield) Tube. Duration : 9.30 Mins.

(Part 5 of 8) Sir Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield star in an audiobook adaptation of Charles Dickens' holiday classic, A Christmas Carol. 1960 recording. Sir Ralph Richardson (19 December 1902 10 October 1983) made a series of audio recordings of the poetry of Keats and William Blake and great plays such as Cyrano de Bergerac and Julius Caesar, in addition to A Christmas Carol. He was most renowned, however, for his stage portrayals of the works of Shakespeare (Falstaff in Henry IV, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream), Ibsen (Peer Gynt, John Gabriel Borkman), Chekhov (Uncle Vanya), Shaw (Arms and the Man), and his friend JB Priestley (An Inspector Calls, Johnson over Jordan, Cornelius). He also made numerous films, such as The Ghoul with Boris Karloff, The Heiress with Olivia de Havilland and Montgomery Clift, Long Day's Journey into Night with Katharine Hepburn, Anna Karenina with Vivien Leigh, and Richard III with his close friend Laurence Olivier. Pictures: Various paintings and photographs depicting Christmas scenes, as well as pictures of Charles Dickens, Sir Ralph Richardson, and Paul Scofield.

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