Addison Richards
Acting • Born 1902-10-20 – Died 1964-03-22
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Addison Whitaker Richards, Jr. (October 20, 1902 – March 22, 1964) was an American actor of film and television. He appeared in more than three hundred films and television series between 1933 and his death.
Filmography
331 credits
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
Movie • 1936
Narrator (voice)
The Walking Dead
Movie • 1936
Prison Warden
Sealed Lips
Movie • 1942
Chief Gary Benson
Whispering Enemies
Movie • 1939
Red Barrett
Crime Against Joe
Movie • 1956
District Attorney Roy Kasden
Strange Confession
Movie • 1945
Dr. Williams
Flying Tigers
Movie • 1942
R.T. Lindsay
Operation Eichmann
Movie • 1961
The Stranger
Bewitched
Movie • 1945
John Ellis
Boys Town
Movie • 1938
Judge
Underground Agent
Movie • 1942
George Martin
A Guy Named Joe
Movie • 1944
Maj. Corbett
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Movie • 1940
George Benedict
Betrayal from the East
Movie • 1945
Captain Bates, G-2
A-Haunting We Will Go
Movie • 1942
Attorney Malcolm Kilgore
Friendly Enemies
Movie • 1942
Inspector McCarthy
Charlie Chan in Panama
Movie • 1940
R.J. Godley
The Shanghai Cobra
Movie • 1945
John Adams
Criminal Court
Movie • 1946
District Attorney Gordon
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Movie • 1939
Streeter - President of Radex
Mighty Joe Young
Movie • 1949
Attorney (uncredited)
Such Women Are Dangerous
Movie • 1934
Delange
Illegal
Movie • 1955
Steve Harper
When Gangland Strikes
Movie • 1956
Mark Spurlock
A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Movie • 1942
Lester Younger
Sheriff of Tombstone
Movie • 1941
Mayor Luke Keeler
Lone Cowboy
Movie • 1933
Dobe Jones
The Mad Ghoul
Movie • 1943
Editor Gavigan
Tall, Dark and Handsome
Movie • 1941
Miitary Academy Commandant
Flight Command
Movie • 1940
Vice Admiral
The Lady Has Plans
Movie • 1942
Paul Baker
Smart Blonde
Movie • 1937
Fitz Mularkay
Little Big Shot
Movie • 1935
Hank Gibbs
For Those Who Think Young
Movie • 1964
Dean Watkins
They Made Her a Spy
Movie • 1939
Senator Everett Brock
Our Daily Bread
Movie • 1934
Louie
Colleen
Movie • 1936
Schuyler
Slightly Honorable
Movie • 1939
Inspector Melvyn Fromm
God's Country and the Woman
Movie • 1937
Gaskett
The Saxon Charm
Movie • 1948
Abel Richman
Inside Information
Movie • 1939
Gerald Banford
Forbidden Passage
Movie • 1941
Frank J. Maxwell
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Movie • 1960
Harris
Ridin' Down the Canyon
Movie • 1942
Gus Jordan
Mystery Broadcast
Movie • 1943
Bill Burton
Frisco Kid
Movie • 1935
William Coleman
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Movie • 1943
District Attorney
Song of the Saddle
Movie • 1936
Frank Wilson Sr.
Divorce
Movie • 1945
Plummer
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Movie • 1936
Frank Locke
Secret Enemies
Movie • 1942
C.G. Travers
Riot Squad
Movie • 1933
Diamonds Jareck
Sweet Music
Movie • 1935
Mr. Thomas
The Tiger Woman
Movie • 1945
Mr. White
Dance Charlie Dance
Movie • 1937
Gordon Fox
The Man from Dakota
Movie • 1940
Confederate Provost Marshal
The Gambler Wore a Gun
Movie • 1961
Doc Devlin
High Society
Movie • 1955
Sam Cosgrove
Gunsight Ridge
Movie • 1957
Sheriff Tom Jones
Public Enemy's Wife
Movie • 1936
Warden Williams
The Chicago Kid
Movie • 1945
The Warden
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie • 1983
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lady on a Train
Movie • 1945
Road Gang
Movie • 1936
Parmenter
Where Are Your Children?
Movie • 1943
Halstead
A Lost Lady
Movie • 1934
State Attorney (uncredited)
A Night of Adventure
Movie • 1944
District Attorney Branson
Accidents Will Happen
Movie • 1938
Blair Thurston
They All Come Out
Movie • 1939
Warden - Atlanta
Strange Glory
Movie • 1938
Senator
Bad Lands
Movie • 1939
Rayburn
Dinky
Movie • 1935
District Attorney
The Broken Star
Movie • 1956
Marshal Wayne Forrester
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Movie • 1939
Ed Eberhart
The White Cockatoo
Movie • 1935
David Lorn
Moon Over Burma
Movie • 1940
Art Bryan
The Master Key
Movie • 1945
Gerhard Doenitz / Garret Donahue
Black Market Babies
Movie • 1945
Saintly Sinners
Movie • 1962
Monsignor
Sutter's Gold
Movie • 1936
James Marshall
My Favorite Blonde
Movie • 1942
Herbert Wilson
Exile Express
Movie • 1939
Chief G-Man Purnell
The Case of the Howling Dog
Movie • 1934
Judge Markham
Smart Guy
Movie • 1943
District Attorney Ben Carter
Prison Nurse
Movie • 1938
Warden Benson
The Black Doll
Movie • 1938
A.H. Mallison
The Flight That Disappeared
Movie • 1961
The Future-being Advocate
The St. Louis Kid
Movie • 1934
Mr. Brown
Step by Step
Movie • 1946
James Blackton
Fort Yuma
Movie • 1955
Gen. Crook
Twelve Crowded Hours
Movie • 1939
Berquist
Fury at Gunsight Pass
Movie • 1956
Charles Hanford
The Law in Her Hands
Movie • 1936
William McGuire
Romance of Louisiana
Movie • 1937
James Monroe / Radio Actor in Studio
Society Doctor
Movie • 1935
Harrigan
A Dog of Flanders
Movie • 1935
Herden
Last of the Badmen
Movie • 1957
Dillon
The Fastest Gun Alive
Movie • 1956
Ready, Willing and Able
Movie • 1937
Edward McNeil
Queen Esther
Movie • 1948
Haman
Secret Agent of Japan
Movie • 1942
Remsen
Texas
Movie • 1941
Matt Lashan
Tell No Tales
Movie • 1939
Jim Hollis (uncredited)
Draegerman Courage
Movie • 1937
John McNally
Here Comes the Band
Movie • 1935
Colonel Wallace
Alias Mary Dow
Movie • 1935
Martin
Love Is on the Air
Movie • 1937
E.E. Nichols
'G' Men
Movie • 1935
Bruce J. Gregory
Freckles
Movie • 1935
Jack Carter
Freckles
Movie • 1935
Butch
Gentlemen Are Born
Movie • 1934
Martinson
Eight Bells
Movie • 1935
Tracey
Thunder Afloat
Movie • 1939
Admiral Ross
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Movie • 1939
Detective
Her Husband's Secretary
Movie • 1937
Steven Garron
The Singing Marine
Movie • 1937
Mr. Fowler
Espionage Agent
Movie • 1939
Bruce Corvall
A Dream Comes True
Movie • 1935
Narrator
Secrets of a Co-Ed
Movie • 1942
District Attorney
Wagon Wheels West
Movie • 1943
Frank Wilson Sr. (edited from "Song of the Saddle") (archive footage)
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Movie • 1940
Stanley Young
Cherokee Strip
Movie • 1940
Ned Strawn
Bells of Rosarita
Movie • 1945
Slim Phillips
Dragonwyck
Movie • 1946
Head Farmer (uncredited)
Air Force
Movie • 1943
Maj. Daniels
Roger Touhy, Gangster
Movie • 1944
Priest (uncredited)
Man With Two Lives
Movie • 1942
Lt. Detective George Bradley
Wine, Women and Horses
Movie • 1937
Gambler
Beyond the Law
Movie • 1934
Morgan
Arizona
Movie • 1940
Capt. Hunter
The Eagle's Brood
Movie • 1935
Big Henry
The Great Lie
Movie • 1941
Mr. Talbot
Gangs of Chicago
Movie • 1940
Evans
Ball of Fire
Movie • 1941
District Attorney
Monsieur Verdoux
Movie • 1947
Bank Manager (uncredited)
Trailin' West
Movie • 1936
Curley Thorne
Jailbreak
Movie • 1936
Dan Varner
White Bondage
Movie • 1937
Kip Gillis
Man Hunt
Movie • 1936
Mel Purdue
Edison, the Man
Movie • 1940
Mr. Johnson
Valley of the Giants
Movie • 1938
Hewitt
Mutiny in the Arctic
Movie • 1941
Ferguson
The Millerson Case
Movie • 1947
Dr. Wickersham
Reaching from Heaven
Movie • 1948
Max Bradley
Front Page Woman
Movie • 1935
District Attorney
Top Sergeant
Movie • 1942
Col. Gray
Alcatraz Island
Movie • 1937
Fred MacLane
Money to Loan
Movie • 1939
District Attorney Norman Kennedy
The Deerslayer
Movie • 1943
Mr. Hutter
Grissly's Millions
Movie • 1945
Henry Adams
War Dogs
Movie • 1942
William Freeman
Wyoming
Movie • 1940
Kincaid
My Little Chickadee
Movie • 1940
Judge (uncredited)
Bordertown Trail
Movie • 1944
Fontaine
Rustlers
Movie • 1949
Frank Abbott
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
Movie • 1941
George Benedict
Northwest Passage
Movie • 1940
Lieutenant Crofton
The Hoodlum Saint
Movie • 1946
Reverend Miller
If You Knew Susie
Movie • 1948
Senator Making Speech (uncredited)
Gateway
Movie • 1938
Inspector
Little Nellie Kelly
Movie • 1940
Naturalization Judge (uncredited)
Pony Express Days
Movie • 1940
Tipton Walton
That Certain Age
Movie • 1938
Newspaper Man (uncredited)
Island of Doomed Men
Movie • 1940
Jackson (#46) (uncredited)
The Mummy's Curse
Movie • 1944
Maj. Pat Walsh
Geronimo
Movie • 1939
Frederick Allison
Let’s Be Ritzy
Movie • 1934
Lt. Spaulding
Babbitt
Movie • 1934
District Attorney
Are These Our Parents?
Movie • 1944
Clint Davis
Inherit the Wind
Movie • 1960
Townsman (uncredited)
Lulu Belle
Movie • 1948
Police Commissioner John Dixon
The Fighting Seabees
Movie • 1944
Capt. Joyce
Crime Doctor
Movie • 1943
Prison Warden
Amos, Shepherd of Tekoa
Movie • 1947
Zebion
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
Movie • 1950
Capt. Weightman
The Last Installment
Movie • 1945
Warden
Secrets of a Sorority Girl
Movie • 1945
John Hamilton
Back in the Saddle
Movie • 1941
Duke Winston
Men of Texas
Movie • 1942
Silas Hurlbert
Cowboy Serenade
Movie • 1942
Asa Lock
The Raiders
Movie • 1963
Huntingdon Lawford
Raiders of Ghost City
Movie • 1944
Colonel Sewell
The Royal Mounted Rides Again
Movie • 1945
Jackson Decker
Badlands of Dakota
Movie • 1941
Gen. George Custer
They Died with Their Boots On
Movie • 1941
Adjutant (uncredited)
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Movie • 1939
Mr. Benedict
The Deerslayer
Movie • 1957
The Saga of Hemp Brown
Movie • 1958
Col. Ford
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
Movie • 1943
A.J. 'Jack' Hill [Ch. 1]
Frontier Uprising
Movie • 1961
Cmdr. Kimball
Call Northside 777
Movie • 1948
State Commissioner John Albertson (uncredited)
Men of Boys Town
Movie • 1941
The Judge
The Ten Commandments
Movie • 1956
Fan Bearer
Barbary Coast Gent
Movie • 1944
Wade Gamelin
Breakdowns of 1938
Movie • 1938
Warden (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mystery of the White Room
Movie • 1939
Dr. Finley Morton
Ceiling Zero
Movie • 1936
Fred Adams
Blue, White, and Perfect
Movie • 1942
Thomas
Off the Record
Movie • 1939
Brand
Mokey
Movie • 1942
Judge
The Oregon Trail
Movie • 1959
President James Polk (uncredited)
Dive Bomber
Movie • 1941
Surgeon (uncredited)
Design for Scandal
Movie • 1941
Divorce Lawyer (uncredited)
Western Union
Movie • 1941
Captain Harlow
Anthony Adverse
Movie • 1936
Capt. Matanaza
The Devil's Party
Movie • 1938
Inspector Bresnahan
Men in Her Diary
Movie • 1945
Attorney Cavanagh
Henry, the Rainmaker
Movie • 1949
Steve Richards
Marriage Is a Private Affair
Movie • 1944
Col. H.W. Ryder
Headin' for God's Country
Movie • 1943
District Commissioner
The Petrified Forest
Movie • 1936
Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Movie • 1942
Colonel
Oklahoma Outlaws
Movie • 1943
Judge John Walton
Corvette K-225
Movie • 1943
Cmdr. Rowland
Her First Beau
Movie • 1941
Dr. Tom Wood
Main Street Today
Movie • 1944
Fred Baker
Public Deb No. 1
Movie • 1940
Sanford
Destroyer
Movie • 1943
Ship Building Foreman
The Pride of the Yankees
Movie • 1942
Coach
Danger Signal
Movie • 1945
Police Inspector
Pacific Rendezvous
Movie • 1942
Gordon Trisby
Private Buckaroo
Movie • 1942
Officer
Angel on My Shoulder
Movie • 1946
Big Harry (uncredited)
Our Wife
Movie • 1941
Middle-Aged Man in Jerry's Stateroom (uncredited)
Spellbound
Movie • 1945
Police Captain (uncredited)
Bullets or Ballots
Movie • 1936
William Kennedy - Newsreel Narrator (uncredited)
China Clipper
Movie • 1936
Mr. B.C. Hill
Black Legion
Movie • 1937
Prosecuting Attorney
I'll Remember April
Movie • 1945
Inspector Pat Malloy
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Movie • 1937
Second Doctor (uncredited)
Adventures of Rusty
Movie • 1945
Dr. Banning - Psychiatrist
South to Karanga
Movie • 1940
Edmund Daniels
Walk the Proud Land
Movie • 1956
Gov. Safford
Flight to Fame
Movie • 1938
Colonel King
Leave Her to Heaven
Movie • 1945
Bedford (uncredited)
Come Out Fighting
Movie • 1945
Police Commissioner James Mitchell
Girl from Havana
Movie • 1940
Harrigan
Everything But the Truth
Movie • 1956
Roger Connolly
Home on the Range
Movie • 1935
Beady
The Man from Montreal
Movie • 1939
Capt. Owens, R.C.M.P.
Swing Shift Maisie
Movie • 1943
Chief Investigator (Uncredited)
For Me and My Gal
Movie • 1942
France Doctor (uncredited)
Moon Over Las Vegas
Movie • 1944
Judge
The Big Street
Movie • 1942
Dr. Mitchell (uncredited)
Hot Money
Movie • 1936
Forbes
All the Fine Young Cannibals
Movie • 1960
Mr. McDowall (uncredited)
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Movie • 1946
Mr. Benedict
I Wanted Wings
Movie • 1941
Flight Surgeon
Ski Patrol
Movie • 1940
James Burton - Speaker
Handy Andy
Movie • 1934
McKechnie (uncredited)
Bufakkar filli nassini
Movie • 1959
Sound
When Tomorrow Comes
Movie • 1939
Refugee Leader at Bus (uncredited)
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
Movie • 1957
Jamieson
The Strawberry Blonde
Movie • 1941
Official (uncredited)
Around the World with Nellie Bly
Movie • 1960
Mr. Pulitzer
Follow the Boys
Movie • 1944
MacDermott (uncredited)
Don't Gamble with Strangers
Movie • 1946
Police Chief Broderick
Mister Ed
TV • 1961
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Col. Danial H. Forrest
Trackdown
TV • 1957
My Three Sons
TV • 1960
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
TV • 1957
Consul (uncredited)
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962
Mr. Lucas
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Frank Newton
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
George Lansing
Studio One
TV • 1948
Lassie
TV • 1954
Man with a Camera
TV • 1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Judge
87th Precinct
TV • 1961
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Jed Blaine
Dennis the Menace
TV • 1959
Stacy
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Connelley
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
H. H. Hungerford
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Morrison
Yancy Derringer
TV • 1958
Judge Harper
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Michaels
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV • 1957
Evanson
One Step Beyond
TV • 1959
Warden
Climax!
TV • 1954
Papa
Pete and Gladys
TV • 1960
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
Guestward, Ho!
TV • 1960
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956
Self
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Doctor
The Texan
TV • 1958
Cimarron City
TV • 1958
Martin Kingsley
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Judge Lovett
Hey, Jeannie!
TV • 1956
Judge Larkin
Ben Jerrod
TV • 1963
John Abbott
Telephone Time
TV • 1956
State Trooper
TV • 1956
Frontier
TV • 1955
26 Men
TV • 1957
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Leonard Craigle
Miami Undercover
TV • 1961
The Third Man
TV • 1959
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
TV • 1959
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV • 1960
James Fitzgibbon
One Step Beyond
TV • 1959
Cabinet Secretary
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Frank Miller
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Judge Wainwright
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Mr. Abbott
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Ralph Verdeen
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Mr. Ross
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Beseley
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Police Chief James L. Peterson
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Jesse Childs
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Pete Hunter
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Col. Bessette
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Gen. Spencer
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Henry
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Dr. John Allen
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Smith
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Mr. Johnson
Studio One
TV • 1948
Mr. MacKail
Studio One
TV • 1948
Arthur
Studio One
TV • 1948
Carter Jackson
Climax!
TV • 1954
The United States Steel Hour
TV • 1953
James Bellingham
Tales of Wells Fargo
TV • 1957
Gen. Lew Wallace
Science Fiction Theatre
TV • 1955
Gunslinger
TV • 1961
John Pearson
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Adm. Frederick Benson
Lawman
TV • 1958
Ben Thurston