- Ex-wife Vanessa Redgrave named Jeanne Moreau as co-respondent in their 1967 divorce on grounds of adultery.
- Companion at the time of his death was Jeanne Moreau.
- Directed seven different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Hugh Griffith, Diane Cilento, Edith Evans, Joyce Redman and Jessica Lange. Lange won for Blue Sky (1994).
- In 1970 he planned to make a film about the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, with Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev and French actress Claude Jade, but it was never made.
- One of the British "New Wave" directors.
- With John Osbourne founded Woodfall Films named after the street where John lived for some time.
- As president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, he directed such plays as "Peer Gynt" and "King John". Richardson graduated from Oxford in 1952 and joined the BBC as a producer. In 1956 he became associate director of the English Stage Company. The first play he produced was John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger". This started a fruitful collaborative cycle which included work on several films. Richardson formed his own production company, Woodfall Films, in 1958, turning out high-quality features, such as The Entertainer (1960), A Taste of Honey (1961) and Tom Jones (1963).
- Attended Wadham College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, and his contemporaries included Rupert Murdoch, Margaret Thatcher, Kenneth Tynan, Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert.
- He was married from 1962 to 1967 to the actress Vanessa Redgrave and they had 2 daughters, the actresses Natasha and Joely Richardson,.
- His last film, Blue Sky (1990) had virtually nothing of a release in Britain.
- He's lived in Los Angeles since 1974.
- Daughter Natasha was born in 1964 and Joely in 1966.
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