Gordon Richards

Gordon Richards was an English actor whose stage and screen career lasted more than fifty years. Born in Gillingham, Kent, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London before beginning professional work in the West End in 1909. He joined Johnston Forbes-Robertson's theater company and toured the United States with it, making his Broadway debut in 1913 in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra and also appearing in Shakespeare's Othello. Through 1951 he acted in many Broadway plays and musicals, among them Cole Porter's Something for the Boys. After serving in the British Army during World War I, he returned to the United States in 1927 and made further Broadway appearances. From 1942 to 1956 he appeared in thirty-five Hollywood films, usually in character parts, including Women in the Night (1948), Kitty (1945), and Song of Surrender (1949). On television he played Hubert Twombly in The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. He died in 1964.