{"artistName":"Richard Greene","artistId":98802,"artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/048/048dad9a92f50fa73433b42e2ea061bf_xl.jpg","srcset":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/048/048dad9a92f50fa73433b42e2ea061bf_sm.jpg 50w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/048/048dad9a92f50fa73433b42e2ea061bf_md.jpg 80w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/048/048dad9a92f50fa73433b42e2ea061bf_lg.jpg 200w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/048/048dad9a92f50fa73433b42e2ea061bf_xl.jpg 340w","artistBio":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Marius Joseph Greene (25 August 1918 - 1 June 1985) was a noted English film and television actor. A matinee idol who appeared in more than 40 films, he was perhaps best known for the lead role in the long-running British TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood, which ran for 143 episodes from 1955 to 1960. \nIt has been stated elsewhere that he was the grandson of the inventor William Friese-Greene, who is credited by some as the inventor of cinematography, but Friese-Greene's genealogy shows no connection whatsoever to Richard Greene. \n Early life\nGreene was a Roman Catholic of Irish and Scottish ancestry, and was born in Plymouth, Devon, England. His aunt was the musical theatre actress Evie Greene. His father, Richard Abraham Greene and his mother, Kathleen Gerrard, were both actors with the Plymouth Repertory Theatre. A descendant of four generations of actors, Greene was educated at the CVMS in Kensington, London, and left at age 18. He started his stage career as the proverbial spear carrier in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in 1933. A handsome young man, Greene added to his income by modelling shirts and hats. \n Career\nGreene joined the Jevan Brandon Repertory Company in 1936. He won accolades in the same year for his part in Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears, which brought him to the attention of Alexander Korda and Darryl F. Zanuck. At 20, he joined 20th Century Fox as a rival to MGM's Robert Taylor. His first film for Fox was John Ford's Four Men and a Prayer. Greene was a huge success, especially with female film goers who sent him mountains of fan mail which at its peak rivalled that of Fox star Tyrone Power. One of his most notable roles was Sir Henry Baskerville in the 1939 Sherlock Holmes film The Hound of the Baskervilles. The film marked the first pairing of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. \nGreene interrupted his acting career to serve in World War II in the 27th Lancers, where he distinguished himself. After three months, he went to Sandhurst and was commissioned. He was promoted to Captain in the 27th Lancers in May 1944. He was relieved from duty in 1942 to appear in the British propaganda films Flying Fortress and Unpublished Story. In 1943, he appeared in The Yellow Canary while on furlough. He later toured in Shaw's Arms and the Man, entertaining the troops. Greene was discharged in December 1944 and appeared in the stage plays Desert Rats and I Capture the Castle. \nHowever, the war effectively ruined Greene's rising career. Though he did well in the popular movie Forever Amber (1947), Greene found himself cast in a series of swashbuckling roles. Having turned away from films in favour of stage and screen and having been through a divorce from Patricia Medina, to whom he was married from 1941 to 1951, Greene was cash-strapped when Yeoman Films of Great Britain approached him for the lead role in The Adventures of Robin Hood. \nGreene took the role and was an immediate success. It solved his financial problems and made him a star. He had a long love affair in the 1950s with Nancy Oakes, wealthy daughter of mining tycoon Sir Harry Oakes, who had been murdered in notorious circumstances in the Bahamas in 1943. \nAmongst other TV programmes, Greene was in A Man For Loving, The Doctors, The Morecambe and Wise Show, Dixon of Dock Green, Scarf Jack, The Professionals episode Everest Was Also Conquered and the Tales of the Unexpected episode Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat. \nGreene died of cardiac arrest in 1985. \n Filmography\n\nSing As We Go (1934) (bit part), \nFour Men and a Prayer (1938), \nMy Lucky Star (1938), \nSubmarine Patrol (1938), \nKentucky (1938), \nThe Little Princess (1939), \nThe Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), \nStanley and Livingstone (1939), \nHere I Am a Stranger (1939), \nLittle Old New York (1940), \nI Was an Adventuress (1940), \nFlying Fortress (1942), \nUnpublished Story (1942), \nYellow Canary (1943), \nDon't Take It to Heart (1944), \nGaiety George, also known as Showtime (1946), \nForever Amber (1947), \nThe Fighting O'Flynn (1949), \n\nThe Fan (1949), \nThat Dangerous Age or If This Be Sin (1949), \nNow Barabbas (1949), \nShadow of the Eagle (1950), \nThe Desert Hawk (1950), \nMy Daughter Joy (Operation X) (1950), \nLorna Doone (1951), \nThe Black Castle (1952), \nThe Bandits of Corsica (1953), \nRogue's March (1953), \nCaptain Scarlett (1953), \nContraband Spain (1955), \nBeyond the Curtain (1960), \nSword of Sherwood Forest (1961), \nIsland of the Lost (1968), \nThe Blood of Fu Manchu (1968), \nThe Castle of Fu Manchu (1968), \nTales from the Crypt (1972)\u003c/p\u003e","musicPath":"/music/Richard+Greene","playStationPath":"/stations/277276541/play","stationId":277276541,"bioPath":"/music/Richard+Greene/_full_bio","similars":[{"musicPath":"/music/The+Kentucky+Colonels","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/72c/72c9bbb8f6bc213d7f8c7b2792e776ef_md.jpg","artistName":"The Kentucky 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