Richard Goolden

Known for Acting

2/23/1895

London, England, UK

Biography

Richard Goolden was an actor. He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama and broadcasting.

Known For (16 credits)

Movie

The Nightingale

1981

A short, stop-frame animation. The film uses puppets to tell Hans Christian Andersen's tale about the song of a nightingale heard by the little kitchen girl at the Emperor of China's palace.

4.7

Movie

Joseph Andrews

1977

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.

4.3

Movie

One More Time

1970

London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.

6.2

Movie

It!

1967

After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Grove is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.

5.0

Movie

It's All Happening

1963

Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands, in order that the orphanage where he was brought up be saved from closing.

5.9

Movie

In the Doghouse

1962

After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.

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Suspect

1958

The mysterious Mrs. Smith is entertaining - and one of her guests seems to know her from long before.

5.9

Movie

The Weapon

1956

A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.

5.8

Movie

Vengeance Is Mine

1949

In this crime drama, a man learns that he has six months left to live, and before he dies he decides to get revenge against the man responsible for his incarceration. First he hires a man to kill him and frame the traitor. Later the fellow learns that he is not sick after all. Fortunately his hit man died. Later the man he wants to avenge has a final showdown with him. A struggle ensues and the fellow kills his enemy in self-defense.

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Pool of Contentment

1946

A secretarial pool dream of the ideal civil servant to be their boss.

5.5

Movie

Headline

1943

A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.

5.0

Movie

Mistaken Identity

1942

A booking clerk is dismissed after a mistake, and confused with a millionaire in London.