Cyril Ritchard

Cyril Ritchard was born on Dec 01, 1897 in Australia. Cyril Ritchard's big-screen debut came with Piccadilly directed by Ewald André Dupont in 1929, strarring Victor Smiles (as Cyrill Ritchard). Cyril Ritchard is known for The Man Who Bought Paradise directed by Ralph Nelson, Hoagy Carmichael stars as Mr. Leoni and Dolores del Rio as Mona. The upcoming new movie Cyril Ritchard plays is The Hobbit which will be released on Nov 27, 1977.

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