Cyril Ritchard

Cyril Ritchard

Acting 1897-12-01

Legendary for his preening, prancing, delightfully playful villain Captain Hook on the award-winning stage (as well as TV) opposite America's musical treasure Mary Martin, beloved musical star Cyril Ritchard had a vast career that would last six decades, but "Peter Pan" would become his prime legacy. Born in Australia just before the turn of the century, he was educated at St. Aloysius College and Sydney University wherein he slyly sidestepped a parental-guided career in medicine for entertainment, participating in numerous college productions that quickly got him "hooked." He began professionally in the chorus line of The Royal Comic Opera Company and quickly progressed to juvenile leads. A subsequent pairing with the already-established theatre actress Madge Elliott in 1918 proved successful, and the musical twosome eventually married in 1935. Together they would go on to become known as "The Musical Lunts" by their acting peers performing in scores of plays and revues together. Ritchard specialized in playing slick, dandified villains in musical comedy and developed a potent reputation of being a man of many talents. Not only directing and staging Broadway's finest, he became a renown performer of various operas and led many productions as such. Shortly before his wife's death of bone cancer in 1955, Ritchard ventured into TV infamy by repeating his Tony and Donaldson award-winning portrayal of Hook in Peter Pan (1955). He continued to earn acclaim and/or honors with such classic stage productions as "Visit to a Small Planet" (Tony-nominated), "The Pleasure of His Company" (Drama League award, Tony-nominated), "The Roar of the Greasepaint...the Smell of the Crowd" (Tony-nominated), "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Sugar," the musical version of the classic Billy Wilder film Some Like It Hot (1959) in which Ritchard played the Joe E. Brown role. Lesser regarded when it comes to film, he performed in the early Hitchcock classic Blackmail (1929) and made his last movie with the musical Half a Sixpence (1967) with Tommy Steele. While performing as the Narrator in a stage production of "Side by Side by Sondheim" in November 1977, Ritchard suffered a heart attack and died one month later. A one-of-a-kind talent, his nefarious, narcissistic humor was a career trademark that culminated in the role of a lifetime -- one that will certainly be enjoyed by children young and old for eons to come.

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1977 Elrond (voice)
1975 The Frog (voice)
1973 Morlock
1972 Emperor Klockenlocher (voice)
1969 Mijnheer Kleef
1967 Harry Chitterlow
1966 The Sandman (voice)
1966 Self - Host
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1964 Ebenezer Scrooge
1964 Director
1963 Self
1961 Justin Fitzgibbons
1961 Self - Co-Host
1960 Mr. Darling / Captain Hook
1958 Promenade Member
1958 Sui-Generis, the Sorcerer
1958 Self
1957 Sui-Generis the Sorcerer
1956 Mr. Darling / Captain Hook
1956 Self - rehearsing for 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
1956 Self - Dr. Frankenstien
1956 Self - Guest
1956 Self - Presenter
1955 Mr. Darling / Captain Hook
1955 Gen. Howe
1954 Captain Hook
1952 Pontius Pilate
1952
1952 Director
1950 Arnold
1948 Himself
1948 Reveller (uncredited)
1948
1948 Self
1948 Pontius Pilate
1948 Monty Gavenhurst
1938 Paul Martine
1938 Dr. Noel Penwood
1937 Jimmy
1932 Sir William Carter (uncredited)
1930 Craddock
1930 Leo Chavasse
1929 The Artist
1929 Victor Smiles