Richard Greene Biography

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Richard Greene (25 August, 1918 - 1 June, 1985) was a noted British movie and television actor.

He was a descendant of the cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene and was of Irish Catholic extraction, being born in Plymouth, England.

A matinee idol who appeared in more than 40 films, he was perhaps best known for the long-running British TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood, which ran from 1955 to 1960.

He was twice married:

1. The Anglo-Spanish actress Patricia Medina (1950-1960), who became Joseph Cotten's second and final wife.
   
2. Greene died in London, aged 66, of complications from a brain tumour.
   

Filmography

• Against All Odds (Blood of Fu Manchu) (1969)
  
• The Bandits of Corsica (1953)
  
• Beyond the Curtain (1961)
  
• The Black Castle (1952)
  
• Captain Scarlett (1953)
  
• The Castle of Fu Manchu (1968)
  
• Contraband Spain (Contrabando) (1955)
  
• Coriolanus (1951) (made for TV)
  
• The Desert Hawk (1950)
  
• Don't Take It to Heart (1945)
  
• The Fan (Lady Windermere's Fan) (1949)
  
• The Fighting O'Flynn (1949)
  
• Flying Fortress (1942)
  
• Forever Amber (1947)
  
• Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
  
• Gaiety George (Showtime) (1946)
  
• Here I Am a Stranger (1939)
  
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
  
• I Was an Adventuress (1940)
  
• Island of the Lost (1968)
  
• Kentucky (1938)
  
• Little Old New York (1940)
  
• The Little Princess (1939)
  
• Lorna Doone (1951)
  
• My Daughter Joy (Operation X) (1950)
  
• My Lucky Star (1938)
  
• Now Barabbas (1949)
  
• Robin Hood's Greatest Adventures (1956)
  
• Robin Hood, the Movie (1958)
  
• Robin Hood: The Quest for the Crown (1958)
  
• Rogue's March (1952)
  
• Shadow of the Eagle (1950)
  
• Sing As We Go (1934) (bit part)
  
• Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
  
• Submarine Patrol (1938)
  
• Sword of Sherwood Forest (1961)
  
• That Dangerous Age (If This Be Sin) (1949)
  
• Unpublished Story (1942)
  
• The Yellow Canary (1943)
  

External links

also the imperial wizard of the mississippi white knights of the kkk

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