(on his career and life). Ian Richardson: I’ve had a superb career and I was very lucky to do all those big Shakespearean roles in my twenties. What really matters to me now is not my CBE nor my acting awards but my family and my beautiful estate in Devon.
(on comparing Theatre and TV work). Ian Richardson: The theatre has been my first and only love and it was purely by chance that I drifted into TV and film. I wasn't complaining because the financial returns were much higher than they ever could be in the theatre.
(on playing Canon Black in "Strange"). Ian Richarson: I think possibly his sense of humour. A rather nice thing is that the burden of the work is on the shoulders of the younger people. Richard Coyle and Samantha Janus really have to carry the whole series through on their shoulders. I just pop in every now and again with some very funny lines and a lot of sardonic wit to go with it - and go quietly home again. That for me at my age is a great joy.
Ian won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award for his role of Francis Urquhart in House of Cards. It was for Best Acting Performance.
Ian had two sons, Jeremy and Miles. He also had three granddaughters and two grandsons.
One of Richardson's most popular roles was that of a man viewers loved to hate: the sinister-minded 'chief whip' Francis Urquhart in the BBC series House of Cards. The role and series earned critical acclaim and high ratings, as the Urquhart character schemed to block the every move of his idealistic political opponents.
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