Richard Greene Filmography

Island of the Lost

Synopsis: A shipwreck leaves an anthropologist and his family stranded on an island populated by mutant beasts. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Castle of Fu Manchu

Actors: Christopher Lee, Werner Abrolat

Synopsis: This extremely low-budget adventure was director Jesus Franco's second Fu Manchu film for British producer Harry Alan Towers. Christopher Lee returns as the Asian madman, who has developed a way to turn the oceans into ice as part of his plan to rule the world. Kidnapping famed Prof. Herakles (Gustavo Re Read More

The Blood of Fu Manchu

Actors: Richard Greene, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: The first of several collaborations between cult director Jesus Franco and British producer Harry Alan Towers, this horror-tinged adventure is full of jungle action, creative murders, and violent sexual sadism. Christopher Lee portrays the mysterious Asian madman Fu Manchu, plotting world Read More

Sword of Sherwood Forest

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis, Richard Pasco, Jack Gwillim

Synopsis: Having portrayed Robin Hood on TV for five years, Richard Greene reprises the role in Hammer Films' Sword of Sherwood Forest. This time, Robin does a little undercover work to determine the wicked machinations of the Sheriff of Nottingham (played by Hammer stalwart Peter Cushing). Our Hero and the Read More

Beyond the Curtain

Actors: Marius Goring, Richard Greene

Synopsis: Richard Greene stars a British flight officer in Beyond the Curtain, while Eve Bartok costars as a German-born airline stewardess. When the stewardess' plane is forced down over East Germany, she is trapped behind the Iron Curtain due to her alien status. Officer Greene bypasses red tape and Read More

Robin Hood: Quest for the Crown

Synopsis: In this adventure, sly Robin learns of a conspiracy to overthrow King Richard. Now he must hurry before it is too late. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Contraband Spain

Actors: Richard Greene, Jose Nieto, John Warwick

Synopsis: England's Richard Greene and France's Anouk Aimee (here billed simply as Anouk) star in the fast-paced espionager Contraband Spain. Greene is cast as American federal agent Lee, who is dispatched to the French-Spanish border to break up a smuggling ring. Making things difficult for Lee is the fact Read More

The Adventures of Robin Hood [TV Series]

Actors: Richard Greene, Donald Pleasence, Archie Duncan, Patricia Driscoll, Alexander Gauge

Synopsis: This 1950's TV series is based on the legendary Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest and his men, who try to keep Prince John from usurping Richard the Lionhearted's throne while he is off fighting in the Crusades. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Serials

Synopsis: Combined here are select episodes from two popular '50s TV serials which often appeared on Saturday mornings across the U.S. The serials are "The Adventures of Robin Hood," starring Richard Greene and "Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion," starring Buster Crabbe. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Robin Hood: The Movie

Synopsis: The exploits of Robin Hood, as gleaned and combined from the classic British television series, are presented in this adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bandits of Corsica

Actors: Richard Greene, Paula Raymond, Raymond Burr, Dona Drake, Raymond Greenleaf

Synopsis: Bandits of Corsica was also released as The Return of the Corsican Brothers. Bearing only the faintest resemblance to the Alexandre Dumas original, the film stars Richard Greene in the dual role of good brother Mario and his evil twin Lucien. Mario leads his fellow Corsicans in a revolt against Read More

Captain Scarlett

Actors: Richard Greene, Leonora Amar, Ned Young, Manolo Fábregas

Synopsis: Richard Greene stars in the medium-budget swashbuckler Captain Scarlet. Greene plays the title character, a Gallic Robin Hood, who seeks to reclaim his birthright from the usurping Duke of Corlaine (Manolo Fabregas). Forming a group of sort-of-merry men, Captain Scarlet rallies the countryside to Read More

The Black Castle

Actors: Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Stephen McNally, Lon Chaney, Jr.

Synopsis: Boris Karloff returns to his old Universal stamping grounds in the mild horror item Black Castle. The plot is motivated by a brace of 18th-century aristocrats, Beckett (Richard Greene) and Count Von Bruno (Stephen McNally). Invited to visit Von Bruno's castle in Austria, Beckett accepts, hoping in Read More

Rogue's March

Actors: Peter Lawford, Richard Greene, Janice Rule, Leo G. Carroll, John Abbott

Synopsis: Rogue's March was described by one observer as an eastern western. A mustachioed Peter Lawford stars as Capt. Dion Lenbridge of His Majesty's Service. Branded a traitor, Lenbridge is cashiered from the regiment. In fact, Lenbridge isn't a traitor, but he spends the next 84 minutes proving it. He Read More

Robin Hood, the Legend, Vol. 1

Robin Hood, the Legend, Vol. 2

Lorna Doone

Actors: Barbara Hale, Richard Greene, Carl Benton Reid, William Bishop, Ron Randell

Synopsis: Lorna Doone is based on the oft-filmed novel by Richard D. Blackmore. Set in 17th century Scotland during the reign of Britain's Charles II, the story concerns young Lorna (Barbara Hale), a member of a much-hated landowning family. Lorna falls in love with a humble villager (Richard Greene), who Read More

Operation X

Actors: Nora Swinburne, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene, Finlay Currie, Ronald Adam

Synopsis: Denied steady work in the U.S. because of his alleged left-wing political beliefs, Edward G. Robinson was obliged to seek out film roles elsewhere in 1950. My Daughter Joy stars Robinson as self-made businessman George Constantin, whose ruthlessness knows no bounds. In fact, Constantin hopes to Read More

Shadow of the Eagle

Actors: Richard Greene, Valentina Cortese, Binnie Barnes, Greta Gynt, Charles Goldner

Synopsis: Shadow of the Eagle is set during the reign of Russia's Catherine the Great. Dashing Count Orlof (Richard Greene) is dispatched to Venice to kidnap Princess Elizabeth (Valentina Cortesa), a pretender to Catherine's throne. Falling in love with the princess, Orloff casts his lot with Elizabeth's Read More

The Desert Hawk

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Greene, Jackie Gleason, George Macready, Rock Hudson

Synopsis: The Desert Hawk deserves to be seen on the basis of its cast alone. No more believable than any of Universal's other sword-and-sand epics, this one stars Yvonne de Carlo as Princess Shaharazade (sic) and Richard Greene as Omar, aka the Desert Hawk. By day a humble blacksmith, the Desert Hawk Read More

Now Barabbas

If This Be Sin

Actors: Roger Livesey, Myrna Loy, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene, Elizabeth Allan, Gerard Heinz

Synopsis: The British That Dangerous Age is based on Autumn, a play by Margaret Kennedy and Ilya Surgutchoff. Myrna Loy heads the cast as Lady Brooke, the wife of famed barrister Sir Brian Brooke (Roger Livesay). Neglected by her husband, Lady Brooke inaugurates an affair with a younger man. Meanwhile Read More

The Fighting O'Flynn

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Helena Carter, Richard Greene, Patricia Medina, Arthur Shields

Synopsis: In this lively adventure, a daring Irish leader tires to keep Napoleon from invading Ireland. The hero, in every way a swashbuckler, journeys to his recently inherited castle where he saves a fair lassie the Viceroy's daughter, from highwaymen. He then gets involved in many exciting and Read More

The Fan

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Richard Greene, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: In this revised adaptation of Oscar Wilde's famous comedy of manners, Lady Windermere's Fan, the middle-aged but still beautiful Mrs. Erlynne (Madeleine Carroll), well-known for her romantic adventures, has cast her eye upon Lord Windermere (Richard Greene), who is married to Lady Windermere (Jeanne Crain Read More

Now Barabbas Was a Robber

Actors: Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke, Kathleen Harrison, Ronald Howard, Stephen Murray

Synopsis: A popular British stage play by William Douglas Home was the basis for this out-of-the-ordinary prison picture. Richard Greene heads the cast as Turnfell, a murderer facing a death sentence. Turnfell is but one of several inmates whose joys and sorrows are detailed in anecdotal fashion: others Read More

Forever Amber

Actors: Jane Ball, Linda Darnell, Edmund Breon, Cornel Wilde, Leo G. Carroll, Richard Greene, George Sanders, Robert Coote, Jessica Tandy

Synopsis: They said it couldn't be done, but they did it: Kathleen Winsor's "notorious", bestselling bodice-ripper Forever Amber actually made it to the screen in 1947 with full censorial approval. Of course, it was necessary to tone down the more erotic passages of Winsor's novel, but the end result Read More

Gaiety George

Actors: Richard Greene, Ann Todd, Peter Graves, Morland Graham, Hazel Court

Synopsis: Though its title suggests that Gaiety George is yet another vehicle for British comedian George Formby, the film is in fact a biopic. Richard Greene plays Irish theatrical impresario George Howard, whose elaborately staged musical entertainments were highlights of the early 20th century. Wounded Read More

The Yellow Canary

Actors: Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam, Albert Lieven, Lucie Mannheim, Margaret Rutherford

Synopsis: The Yellow Canary was one of several wartime collaborations between British producer-director Herbert Wilcox and Hollywood's RKO Radio Pictures. The film stars Wilcox's wife Anna Neagle as pretty aristocrat Sally Maitland. Having alienated many of her friends with her prewar Nazi sympathies, Sally Read More

Don't Take It to Heart

Actors: Richard Greene, David Horne, Patricia Medina, Alfred Drayton, Joan Hickson

Synopsis: Don't Take It to Heart is an amiable entry in the 1940s cycle of "ghost comedies". A British castle is rocked by a German bombing raid, releasing a jaunty wraith (Richard Greene) from his house-haunting job. As long as he's got the run of the castle, the ghost decides to take a hand in the romance Read More

Unpublished Story

Actors: Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, Basil Radford, Roland Culver

Synopsis: Bob Randall (Richard Greene) is a reporter who gets to witness first-hand the British retreat from Dunkirk in May of 1940. He returns to his job in a London now facing nightly German bombing raids, and finds himself saddled with Carol Bennett (Valerie Hobson), a neophyte reporter. Bob is eager to Read More

Flying Fortress

Actors: Richard Greene, Carla Lehmann, Betty Stockfeld, Donald Stewart, Charles Heslop

Synopsis: Produced by Britain's Teddington Studios on behalf of Warner Bros., The Flying Fortress stars Richard Greene, who had to be furloughed from the Army to participate in this wartime morale-booster. Greene plays millionaire playboy Jim Spence, a carefree aviation enthusiast whose avocation becomes Read More

Little Old New York

Actors: Alice Faye, Fred MacMurray, Richard Greene, Brenda Joyce, Andy Devine

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1923 as a vehicle for Marion Davies, Rida Johnson Young's warhorse theatrical property Little Old New York was dusted off by 20th Century-Fox for Alice Faye, Fred MacMurray and Richard Greene. The latter plays the nominal lead, Scottish inventor Robert Fulton, who in 1807 Read More

I Was an Adventuress

Actors: Vera Zorina, Richard Greene, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: Actress/ballerina Vera Zorina stars as a phony countess, working in cahoots with two international con artists (Erich von Stroheim and Peter Lorre). She renounces her earlier life after falling in love with one of her victims (Richard Greene), but her old crooked cronies show up to blackmail her. Zorina Read More

The Little Princess

Actors: Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Cesar Romero

Synopsis: Shirley Temple's first Technicolor feature, The Little Princess was inspired by the oft-filmed novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Set in turn-of-the-century England, the film finds Temple being enrolled in a boarding school by her wealthy widowed father (Ian Hunter), who must head off to fight in Read More

Here I Am a Stranger

Actors: Richard Greene, Richard Dix, Brenda Joyce, Roland Young, Gladys George

Synopsis: In this drama, a miserable wife takes her son and leaves her alcoholic spouse. She ends up traveling to England to begin her new life. There she meets a wealthy Englishman whom she weds. Time passes. The boy grows up and want to return to the States to go to his father's alma mater. Because his Read More

Stanley and Livingstone

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn

Synopsis: Twentieth Century-Fox borrowed Spencer Tracy, from MGM for the sprawling (yet economically produced) historical drama Stanley and Livingstone. Tracy plays 19th-century American journalist Henry M. Stanley, an adventure-prone sort who is assigned by his editor (Henry Hull) to locate lost Scottish Read More

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Actors: Richard Greene, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, John Carradine, Wendy Barrie

Synopsis: Though it takes a few liberties with the Arthur Conan Doyle original -- not the least of which is turning Sherlock Holmes into the second lead -- The Hound of the Baskervilles ranks as one of the best screen versions of this oft-told tale. After learning the history of the Baskerville curse from Read More

Four Men and a Prayer

Actors: Loretta Young, Richard Greene, George Sanders, David Niven, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: This saga spans the globe as the three young heroes search for the man who killed their much-admired, beloved father, a cashiered officer who was wrongly dishonorably discharged before he was murdered. Their quest takes them from India to South America, London, Egypt, and the U.S. As the progress Read More

My Lucky Star

Actors: Sonja Henie, Richard Greene, Joan Davis, Cesar Romero, Buddy Ebsen

Synopsis: Sonja Henie is the "lucky star" in this enjoyable 20th Century-Fox musical. Henie plays Kristina Nelson a humble department store sales clerk who is spotted while skating by George Cabot Jr. (Cesar Romero_, son of the store's owner. George is so taken by Kristina that he gets her an athletic Read More

Submarine Patrol

Actors: Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly, Preston S. Foster, George Bancroft, George "Slim" Summerville

Synopsis: Set during World War I, Submarine Patrol stars Preston S. Foster as a naval officer demoted for dereliction of duty. He is forced to commandeer a battered old submarine chaser and its ragtag crew. Anxious to redeem himself, Foster transforms his loser underlings into a crack combat team, chalking Read More

Kentucky

Actors: Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Douglas Dumbrille, Karen Morley

Synopsis: The blue grass of Kentucky was seen in three-strip Technicolor for the first time in this rambling racetrack drama. Sally Goodwin (Loretta Young) falls in love with Jack Dillon (Richard Greene), but the arrangement is complicated by a decades-old feud. Sally's uncle Peter (Walter Brennan, who won Read More