Richard Gaines
- Birthday
- Jul 23, 1904
Bio: Broadway actor Richard Gaines made his initial film appearance as Patrick Henry in The Howards of Virginia (1940). Gaines is best-known to modern audiences as Jean Arthur's stuffy suitor C. J. Pendergast in George Stevens' The More the Merrier (1942). Less pompous but no less dignified were his performances as George Washington in DeMille's Unconquered (1947) and… More Bio: Broadway actor Richard Gaines made his initial film appearance as Patrick Henry in The Howards of Virginia (1940). Gaines is best-known to modern audiences as Jean Arthur's stuffy suitor C. J. Pendergast in George Stevens' The More the Merrier (1942). Less pompous but no less dignified were his performances as George Washington in DeMille's Unconquered (1947) and Professor Jackson in Flight to Mars (1953). Either by accident or design, Richard Gaines made most of his last screen appearances at MGM, playing DAs, doctors and other briskly professional types. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Richard Gaines Videos
Double Indemnity
Love Me Or Leave Me
Every Girl Should Be Married
Cass Timberlane
Filmography
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Five Steps to Danger (1957)
- Dean Brant
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Ransom! (1956)
- Langly
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Francis in the Haunted House (1956)
- D.A. Reynolds
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Trial (1955)
- Dr. Schacter
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Love Me Or Leave Me (1955)
- Paul Hunter
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