Richard Pearson (actor)  

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Richard de Pearsall Pearson (1 August 1918 – 2 August 2011) was a Welsh actor. Notable films of his career include Brian Desmond Hurst's Scrooge (1951) as well as a brief appearance in John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and cameo roles in three films by Roman Polanski: Macbeth (1971), Tess (1979) and Pirates (1986). Pearson made his stage debut at age 18 at London's Collins's Music Hall, but didn't make his film debut until 32 when he played a Sergeant in the motion picture The Girl is Mine (1950) which was followed a year later by his performance as Mr. Tupper in Scrooge.

In later years, he is perhaps best known for his role as Mole in Cosgrove Hall's The Wind in the Willows (1983), its subsequent television series, The Wind in the Willows which led on from the original film and its spin-off programme Oh, Mr. Toad both of which he starred alongside David Jason, Peter Sallis and Michael Hordern. He has also has appeared in episodes of One Foot in the Grave as Victor Meldrew's absent-minded brother, Alfred and the Men Behaving Badly episode "Three Girlfriends" as Gary's father Mr Strang. He played Mr. Pye in the 1985 TV movie Marple: The Moving Finger. Pearson died on 2 August 2011, one day after his 93rd birthday.

Selected filmography

• The Girl is Mine (1950)
• The Woman in Question (1950)
• The Clouded Yellow (1950)
• Scrooge (1951)
• The Blue Parrot (1953)
• Fabian of the Yard (1954)
• Dangerous Cargo (1954)
• Svengali (1954)
• Sea Fury (1958)
• Life in Danger (1959)
• Model for Murder (1959)
• The Crowning Touch (1959)
• Libel (1959)
• Man in the Moon (1960)
• Guns of Darkness (1962)
• The King's Breakfast (1963)
• The Comedy Man (1964)
• The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
• The Caramel Crisis (1966)
• Charlie Bubbles (1967)
• How I Won the War (1967)
• The Strange Affair (1968)
• Inspector Clouseau (1968)
• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
• Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
• To Catch a Spy (1971)
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
• Pope Joan (1972)
• It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1975)
• One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
• Royal Flash (1975)
• The Blue Bird (1976)
• Tess (1979)
• The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
• Water (1985)
• Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
• Pirates (1986)
• Men in Black II (2002)