Richard Pearson Passes Away at 93

According to published reports, actor Richard Pearson passed away yesterday in a home for retired actors. He was 93 years old.

Notable films during his career include Brian Desmond Hurst's Scrooge (1951) as well as a brief appearance in John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and cameo roles in three films by Roman Polanski: Macbeth (1971), Tess (1979) and Pirates (1986). In 1975 he appeared opposite Laurence Olivier and Katherine Hepburn in Love Among the Ruins (TV).

Pearson made his stage debut at age 18 at London's Collins's Music Hall, but did not make his film debut until 32 when he played a Sergeant in the motion picture The Girl is Mine (1950) which was followed a year later by his performance as Mr. Tupper in Scrooge. 

In his later years, he was perhaps best known for his role as Mole in Cosgrove Hall's The Wind in the Willows (1983), its subsequent television series, The Wind in the Willows which led on from the original film and its spin-off programme Oh, Mr. Toad, in both of which he featured alongside David Jason, Peter Sallis and Michael Hordern. He also has appeared in episodes of One Foot in the Grave as Victor Meldrew's absent-minded brother, Alfred and the Men Behaving Badly episode "Three Girlfriends" as Gary's father Mr Strang. He played Mr. Pye in the 1985 TV movie Marple: The Moving Finger. Pearson died on 2 August 2011, one day after his 93rd birthday.