He also played leading parts in British TV dramas such as Huntingtower and The Tripods. Later he played a scene as a sinister taxidermist with James Stewart (whom he described as 'a perfect gentleman') in Alfred Hitchcock's second version of The Man Who Knew Too Much. His film career included a standout performance as the monstrous astronaut in The Quatermass Xperiment, which launched Hammer Film Productions’ famous run as the UK’s foremost producers of horror movies. Later he would tour Australia as Fagin in the musical Oliver which he also produced. He also found success as Captain Hook in several Christmas productions of Peter Pan. After successful Shakespearian seasons at the Old Vic and Stratford-upon-Avon, he starred in the musical Lock Up Your Daughters which launched the Mermaid Theatre in London. In classical theatre he worked with John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Anthony Quayle and Richard Burton. He quickly developed a talent for character acting which sustained him and his family through a long and richly varied career. But he quickly found acting more to his taste and, after performing at the Cambridge Footlights, he decided to study drama at the Embassy School of Acting in London. As a young man he followed in the footsteps of his clergyman father, reading Divinity at Cambridge University. He was the great-great-grandson of the poet William Wordsworth.
Richard Curwen Wordsworth (19 January 1915 – 21 November 1993) was an English character actor.
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