Richard Johnson – a life in pictures
The actor Richard Johnson has died after a short illness at the Royal Marsden hospital in Chelsea, London. During his 60-year career, he featured in many films, including Khartoum in 1966 alongside Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier
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Richard Johnson with Dorothy Tutin as Romeo and Juliet at the Memorial theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1958
Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images
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His film debut was with Frank Sinatra and Gina Lollobrigida in Never So Few, 1959, directed by John Sturges
Photograph: Allstar/MGM
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Russ Tamblyn, Richard Johnson and Claire Bloom in The Haunting, 1963, directed by Robert Wise
Photograph: Allstar/MGM
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With his wife Kim Novak in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, 1964
Photograph: Albert McCabe/Getty Images
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Richard Johnson in Khartoum, 1966
Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images
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Khartoum, 1966
Photograph: BFI
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With Michele Mercier in the film Emma Hamilton, 1968
Photograph: Allstar/Sunset Films
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Richard Johnson and Raquel Welch at a press call for their new film The Beloved in Rome, 1970
Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
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Johnson appeared in a number of Italian films including Chi Sei aka The Devil Within, 1974
Photograph: www.ronaldgrantarchive.com
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With Dawn French and Francesca Annis in Milk, a black comedy directed by William Brookfield , in 1999
Photograph: Sky Pictures
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With Sam Harding in Hock and Soda Water at the Minerva theatre, Chichester
Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
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With Rebecca Hall in Mrs Warren’s Profession at the Strand theatre, 2002
Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
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