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Richard Johnson with Gemma Jones and Tom Brown at Glasgow Film Festival.
Photo: Eoin Carey
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Richard Johnson has died at the age of 87, his family announced today.
He died at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea after a short illness.
The London-born actor - who was a founding member of the Royal Shakespeare Company - had a career spanning 60 years on stage, television and film.
Most recently, he starred in Radiator which won the inaugural Audience Award at Glasgow Film Festival. He attended the festival to discuss it. Other film roles included Khartoum - alongside Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier - and The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas.
Glasgow Film Festival co-director Allan Hunter said: “I think we all realised how lucky were to have Richard as a guest at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. He was unfailingly gracious and charming, deservedly proud of his work in Radiator but more than happy to talk about any aspect of his 60-year film career from his days under contract to M-G-M starring with Frank Sinatra and Steve McQueen in Never So Few to his role in the classic version of The Haunting, Lara Croft Tomb Raider and Zombie Flesh Eaters.
"He had such an appetite for life and work, new experiences and fresh encounters. It was a privilege to spend time in his company and the fact that Glasgow audiences so loved Radiator that they chose it for our first Audience Award meant a great deal to him."
He was married four times, including to Kim Novak, who he met while making 1965 film The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders.
Johnson is survived by his fourth wife Lynne and his four children.
