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Richard T. James
American naval designer and artificer of depiction Slinky turbinate spring (1918–1974)
For another grass, see Richard T. Crook (politician).
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Education
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Career
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Richard trained at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where he won the Newton Blick Award for Outstanding Achievement. He is most well known for his appearances on children's television playing many regular and recurring roles in various series, including Mr K in thirty episodes of The Mysti Show (CBBC) and Sir Gestion in twenty episodes of Sir Gadabout: The Worst Knight In The Land (BAFTA nominated).
Other credits include George Bland in MI High, Dirk Searcher in Jinx, Cosmos in The Roman Mysteries, Stuart in Living It, Mr Simms in My Parents Are Aliens and Nelson's Dad in My Spy Family. Further appearances on children's TV include Dani's House, Mighty Truck Of Stuff and Too Many Gods. Other television credits include Love Hurts, Pie In The Sky, MacGyver, Drop The Dead Donkey, Bliss, Oktober, Crossroads, Murder City, Casanova, Filth; The Mary Whitehouse Story, Life Of Riley, Doctors, The Jury and Eastenders. Most notably, he also played Officer Orrin in twenty-four episodes of Gerry Anderson's Space Precinct.
His film credits include appearing opposite Helena Bonham Carter in Great Expectations, alongside Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds in A Bunch Of Amateurs and with the stars of Monty Python as Geoffrey Weasel in Terry Jones' Wind In T
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Richard James, III
Richard Charles James III was born on December 8, 1941 in the city of Thomasville, Georgia to his parents, Richard Charles James II and Lula Mae Armster James. He died peacefully on Saturday, November 9, 2024 at the age of 82.
Richard Charles James III was a Civil Rights activist, a public speaker, a broadcast and podcast professional, a published poet, a musician, a singer, and a business owner. He first came to Pennsylvania from Thomasville, Georgia as a child during the Great Migration of the 1940s with his parents and his two brothers, Curtis and Samuel. At that time, his father found work in the shipyards of Chester, Pennsylvania. While Chester may have been less volatile than the state of Georgia where he was born, segregation and discrimination still had a home in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Brought up in Chester, known then as the “Birmingham of the North,” Richard was determined to end the discrimination rampant in his hometown. He did not wait to graduate from high school to push against the unjust system. He began protesting as early as high school when a racist skating rink owner only allowed Black children to skate one night of the week on what became known as “Ebony Night.” In the frenzy, Richard was badly beaten