Charlie Richardson: Entrepreneur, Swindler, Torturer | Richardson Gang | Natural Born Outlaws

Infamous villans the likes of Machine gun Kelly , Pretty bow Floyd, and Baby face Nelson show how hard , mean and desperate you have to be to earn the title of Public enemy.
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[@diggintheblueswithaparrot1329]

The middle class “actor” playing Charlie is beyond cringe…couldn’t they have found anyone with even a vague London accent?

[@mattdavies8153]

the guy playing charlie is hilarious, excellent comic turn

[@dungbeetle.]

I dunno about Charlie, but some of that acting was definitely criminal.

[@marcusclark5330]

The soliloquy on 41 minutes is the highlight

[@bokane1963]

Love these documentaries but am I the only one who cringes at the acting? Haha

[@sun_buddy]

no you are not

[@bokane1963]

@@sun_buddy glad it's not just me then!

[@malcolmcarter2675]

Watch yourn fkin marff---- and watch your back pal....

[@sun_buddy]

@@malcolmcarter2675 thanks for weighing in with your comment, malcom! i will watch my back! :) :) :)

[@josepharmstrong4639]

Eeeesa nawty felllllah

[@Gill12283]

Great video! Thanks for uploading 😃

[@lulassong6524]

Brilliant format! Creative, tough and sophisticated.♥️

[@maryhontz5437]

Love love love these...where have this been all my life THANK YOU!!!

[@TariAkpodiete]

the graphical artwork is amazing!

[@davebarrowcliffe1289]

Surely it was two fingers up to authority in those days? The one finger insult is a fairly recent American import. And informing was always "grassing" rather than "ratting".

[@richardgallagher4880]

Shakespeare called grasses rats.

[@PoetofHateSpeech]

Both had been common. It came from English longbow men doing it to the French during the 100-year war. Because the French said they'd cut off either the 2 fingers or the middle 1.

[@darklord9575]

This was an amazing video!

[@seanmartin699]

Good video subbed,comic strip effects are well good 👌

[@orchidlilly7518]

Loved the graphic artist & actors-thank-you

[@mhunt7843]

All that I have watched from this series is very well done.

[@robanybody4064]

That was so good. I loved everything about it.

[@davidlittle6600]

The guy playing Charlie is no De Niro is he 😂

[@jamesgraham6122]

Excellent portrayal of criminal activity in the 60s. Especially interesting for me, living like the rest of the millions in London during that period, is the fact that we, as non-criminals, felt perfectly safe wandering the streets of London, including areas we were not accustomed to frequenting such as east and south London, normally having attended a party somewhere, walking the streets in the early hours and never giving a thought to our safety. I wouldn't recommend that these days.

[@terryjacob8169]

The little scrots making parts of London no go areas these days, wouldn't have lasted five minutes in the days of the Richardsons or the Krays. Any little shit crapping on the patch of either the Richardsons or Krays was liable to think themselves very lucky if they ended up in hospital after just a damned good beating.

[@andrewwoodcock1194]

This is because of globalisation of gangs! They all work for someones goverment!! But i hear ya!!

[@jackflash743]

impossible to do it now, with all the scum our so called rulers have let into our once great country

[@jaijai5250]

That freedom may only have been afforded to a particular demographic. I remember my uncles talking about the race riots in Nottingham in the 1960’s with the skinheads and teddy boys. I find it hard to believe that those sentiments weren’t prevalent in London.

[@jamescopen9817]

i actually heard that from and old cockney in new york......

[@pcb1623]

Great video wasn't informed to any degree abt the Richardson gang! New the characters of course bt the gangs operation & play was vague. 💯🇬🇧

[@neoanderson5146]

Brilliant video :)

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative

[@missmaggie2620]

The Richardsons were stealth in building their empire, becoming richer & more powerful than the Krays. Krays were too busy showboating.

[@littlemy1773]

The krays were also busy supplying young lads to politicians!

[@JohnJohn-zn8ib]

Not the type to look up to. The police are just as bad as the crooks.

[@Votereform81]

Didn't get em anywhere tho still got 25 years

[@jackiearche]

@@Votereform81 and to top it off missed the 1966 world cup final. Poor Charlie

[@TheGwimWeaper]

Yet there they were, far more famous.

[@tjp353]

How hard can it be to find actors with appropriate accents?

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

That period-- England in the 1960's-- is just endlessly fascinating to me. Whether you're studying Francis Bacon, Radio Caroline, Princess Margaret, Paul McCartney, Joe Orton, Mary Quant, Ted Heath or the Richardson Gang... it's a fascinating story.

[@babylonsburning1]

My mothers family were part of the Richardson's network. We were at my uncles funeral.

[@jackflash743]

i was an islington boy in the 50,s onwards , i knew many villains, although i wasnt one meself

[@allwrighty100]

And don't forget 'the soft drugs'

[@FariesWearBoots1970]

The Kray Twins.

[@tomthompson2309]

I love the acting and the artwork on these videos,top quality,the voice of Charlie made me chuckle but still great stuff 👍

[@dancolbourne4523]

r u serious? couldn't they find a real sarf london b*std actor to play Charlie? terrible accent!

[@tomthompson2309]

@@dancolbourne4523 I agree the accent was terrible but so terrible it was kinda funny

[@georgehearn2873]

the guy playing charlie richardson should get 25 tears for is acting .

[@JufitJuJu]

Loved this…well put together…Charlie’s accent was a bit iffy 😂 And who knew that Peter Schmeichel was just a historian?

[@jamiecassidy1161]

Good documentary

[@davidshattock9522]

This was not possible without the authorities help

[@fatlad5090]

Charlie was game. But had a good business head. Very clever man. And he wasn't scared of anything or Anyone

[@diggintheblueswithaparrot1329]

27:51 is hilarious, “Charlie” has basically forgot the accent he is supposed to be using 😂

[@johnscully2637]

Yea, that was Charlie's, "Somerset era", he controlled half the country's cheddar cheese racket!

[@DarkLordofTheSith69]

@@johnscully2637 🤣

[@stevegoody3434]

Oh arrr

[@87longhairdontcare]

Finally....a documentary about another gang and not those 2 fairies The Krays.

[@Freddieduda]

So Charlie is sentenced to 25 years and as far as l know not one of the many corrupt police officers that allowed him to prosper in crime has ever spent a day in prison .

[@andyanderson3567]

No surprise !

[@modmod392]

Things don’t change

[@richardgallagher4880]

There was loads of famous trials of bent coppers in the 60's and 70's.

[@henners8910]

@@richardgallagher4880 look up the West Midlands serious crime squad now they where as the old adage goes worse than the criminals well known for framing people who they didn’t like many convictions got over turned in the end instead of prosecuting anyone they just forced retirement and reassigned everyone and acted like it never existed.

[@cocksure8430]

@@richardgallagher4880 Yeah, but if he doesnt know about it, then it didnt happen.😂🤣😂👍

[@RamonaHaygood]

Good show.

[@markstanton63]

The overacting in this was definitely criminal

[@spotsterjon74cu]

I enjoyed this documentary. There is a lot of stuff about the Kray twins but not so much on the Richardson gang.

[@jamespeplow8701]

"He didn't take bribes in the way that his colleagues did." Unusual disclaimer. You do or you don't.

[@katherinecollins4685]

Interesting case

[@darrenfry4695]

The actor playing charlie ,,stop it I'm scared mate LoL

[@maxcullen3427]

Were actually better more violent but subtle than krays were ever were

[@glenngibson4001]

I like Eddie Richardson and his brother Charlie. I love how they started their scrap metal business.

[@thatomofolo452]

WOW 😳🤯

[@philltaylor8442]

Ha ha ha 👏😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👍.

[@thatomofolo452]

@@philltaylor8442 🤭

[@musicstewart9744]

“You know, if I wasn’t doing this, I’d probably have become a gangster. “. Roger Daltrey in an interview from the mid 1970’s.

[@bujfvjg7222]

Yeah, walking around taking out his enemies using a mic!

[@malcolmdale]

I used to live a few doors away from Mrs Richardson in Gilkes Crescent, Dulwich.

[@bwilson5401]

Wow! Did her shit smell of roses.A c**t that gave birth to a couple of c**ts. Is that your claim to fame.

[@CissyBrazil]

For some reason, the forward photo (thumbnail) looks like Jack Benny 😂

[@MCHOKUM]

There's a documentary somewhere on youtube with the actual torturers of the Richardson gang interviewed in the 90s. It is chilling.

[@rubiccube8953]

I lived in the same road in the sixties . Dealt with a lot of violence myself can understand how it could change you.

[@Jammo1978]

😆 😆 😆 wow that accent on the Charlie fella is fckin poor 😢 Hahaha

[@MarcJBeard]

If the Krays had East London and the Richardson South London.. who had the West & North London patches ?

[@philltaylor8442]

Looks like it WARKED look at Londonastan TODAY?.

[@loriegosnell9355]

😆 True

[@danieldorey8762]

Wouldn’t of messed with Ronnie pickering!😂😂

[@chucky2316]

I'm Ron's cheif enforcer I have gold plated pliers

[@Stephen-gp8yi]

Charlie was a very clever man regarding business.he even bought gold mines in South Africa!

[@john1606ful]

The actor bloke playing Charlie would be more at home playing Danny La Rue

[@richardgreen7621]

Do one on bobby Cummings & the chaps

[@richardfinch3897]

THE RICHARDSON BROTHERS WAS THE TOP DOGS IN LONDON IN 60S

[@90sclips420]

whats peter schmeichel doing on this hahah

[@lefuedebout]

.... @ 30:53... I lost 2 of my " looooootenants "... did " Sauf London " villains really use American vernacular back in the 1960s?

[@PrinceMonty153]

With the lack of NHS dentistry in the country today Frankie Fraser could probably make a few bob if he's got the knack of pulling them quickly.

[@slowdivebreeze1]

I thought this fight was with another gang led by Billy Hayward

[@The.panthera.]

The toughest gang of the 1960s

[@md4933]

And yet they got run out of Mr Smith's (catford) ..

[@Svvithred]

Negative. The toughest gang of the 60s was the Piranha Brothers.

[@darrenfry4695]

@@md4933 no two of them did, not exactly fair fight when the other side had guns and they had nothing lol but the guys with the gun ended up dead with his own gun...so some guys with guns turns up to fight the Richardson's and they get beat up and one looses his life .I'd say they come out ok lol

[@md4933]

@@darrenfry4695 "Not exactly a fair fight".. I don't think that logic applies to gangster's.

[@darrenfry4695]

They wasn't gangsters they was business men

[@landb1884]

Blimey that actors accent certainly gets about.

[@VinegarTom68]

3 45" in the syrup is back

[@PoetofHateSpeech]

Modern criminals in London wouldn't be handling pork lol

[@petemorrelli9201]

How far south of the river is that accent 😂😂😂

[@johnkeane1419]

Brighton?

[@chucky2316]

Oxford village

[@generalmunro748]

He was a lovely man, firm but fair, he screwed my pelvis to a cake stand, well he had to really

[@brianjones7660]

is that you, Dinsdale?🤣

[@generalmunro748]

@@brianjones7660 no its Doug 👍😂

[@aaronjamesmoore757]

it was blown way out of proportion, he was working class and just got too big for his boots

[@joewalker1130]

Respect. Big part of British gangster history

[@user-eh9jk9fs4b]

KRAYS

[@martiallaw9509]

The Kray's were almost unstoppable...but they treaded lightly with Charlie Richardson which in itself speaks volumes. Good Info, good Video

[@StefanMedici]

The Krays were a joke, a dangerous and unpredictable joke, but a joke nevertheless. The smartest of the bunch was Charlie.

[@lsudx479]

All these London gangsters were a joke. None of them held a candle 🕯 to the real American mafia.

[@martiallaw9509]

@@lsudx479 Of course this is all theory and conjecture because the Chinese and Japanese cultures had extremely powerful gangsters. There is a powerful element in Kenya present tense. This fragmented argument is meaningless as The Vory (ex KGB) in Russia are the supreme criminal element. It's all opinions No Facts. .

[@lsudx479]

@@martiallaw9509 Yeah I forgot about the Russians. They're a force to be reckoned with even today. The reason they're so powerful is because the Russian mafia has the most members with masters and PhD degrees so their rackets are much more sophisticated and run more quietly in the background.

[@martiallaw9509]

@@lsudx479 Putting it in perspective as you have it's damn scary. The American Mafia as far as I know we're the progenitors of the British and European variety and maybe further afield. You may know more than me but all I'm saying is the phenomenon is culturally worldwide. I'll get modern literature and update my knowledge. That's all you can do.

[@terryjacob8169]

Well, hard bastards the Richardsons. No nonsense villans.

[@iainsime2614]

The ending proves one thing. Things would never be the same again as we have more so called gangs that do anything and everything and do not care who it effects. Old school gangsters would not allow that to happen.

[@markmiller6402]

Wouldn’t allow what to happen?

[@greenfingaz3000]

I've watch other documentary abwt him and I ain't seen one that proved that the black box was actually used to commit what was said and I think they stitch them up with that 🤔

[@stvincents2007]

Yet the grass and the old bill lies to get em sent down

[@e4r0r4]

What did that dummy say? "They were the hardest gang in Britain" hahahaha NOPE.

[@jackflash743]

so u know someone harder than the richardsons haha

[@e4r0r4]

@@jackflash743 You think that they are special. They got caught and held up as the biggest. Do you know anything about the underworld? If they had real reach, you would never have heard about them in your civilian life. THINK BEFORE YOU STINK.

[@jackflash743]

@@e4r0r4 don't say things like that to me, and what I'm saying now is the complete truth, i mixed and knew many villains i knew many big well known names, i used to drink in clubs that Ron and reg had, i was especially a good friend of Teddy Smith who was called mad Teddy Smith in the book, he came from Islington same as i did, we called him Terribly Ted, he was a pouf as the krays were, i wasn't haha, and i could tell you and anyone else things that gangsters did, you wouldn't believe, so don't lecture me, i would cut your Niagras off as soon as look at you

[@jackflash743]

@@e4r0r4 and you think before you stink as well

[@jackflash743]

@@e4r0r4 i assure you that you would never say that to my face

[@RamonaHaygood]

Scary guy.

[@tim.timothy.brennan]

An interesting documentary and well presented in my opinion. Character portrayal by the Actor's were 'Top Notch'!!

[@michaelharrison3602]

The acting was rubbish

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

They love portraying Charlie as some kind of monster, but the fact is he was very well liked and respected. I briefly made his acquaintance while he was "on holiday" from Springhill Prison. He openly visited pubs on the Old Kent Road, drinking in the company of senior police officers then spent a few months on the Costa del Sol before coming back to a reduced sentence. Even before his vacation, he was running several lucrative operations remotely, of which I can speak no more ;)

[@freemanontheland507]

Well, he fell out with his brother big time, says it all, pal...peace & Guidance...

[@dannyelliott4016]

your right i met him when he was on the run he was a gent and well respected .

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

@@dannyelliott4016 Out of interest, where did you meet him? I was living in New Cross Gate - was it 1980/81? Millwall's best years (lol).

[@markhendershott2372]

Is this the same lad that bite another lads finger??

[@gemmamudd7167]

Eddie was the hardest man I have ever seen fight and he was old when I watched it

[@Oxo380]

I think Charles Bronson would say otherwise lol

[@derektrotter4287]

@@Oxo380 she said she’s seen! Doubt she’s seen breast neon fight 😂

[@bushwhackeddos.2703]

Gawd help us strike a light Mary Poppins.

[@watchfan6180]

What makes human beings behave like this is mind boggling

[@8froggo]

money

[@adamsmith7058]

An entertaining and relatively informative story about some of the less talked about denizens of the London Underworld. However, the fact that the guy portraying Charlie seemed to have learned his accent at the ,Karl Urban/Bill the Butcher school of comedy cockney pronunciation, kind of spoiled it, and made it somewhat laughable. It was like watching Ryan Reynolds play Sid James.

[@JonathonBastow]

No wonder the accents are so bad when they called football soccer 😂😂

[@deeppurple883]

Weren't that smart ended up behind bars for many year's. Besides the fact they were in prison didn't matter that much because they were wealthy already. They were still earning and they still had their firm and the green to finance their work through Charlie and Eddie. They were a tight crew in south London. 👊☘️

[@martinintrospective3491]

I’ve met Norman Parker a few times. RIP

[@jackflash743]

norman was a friend of my family. i sure have a funny story to tell about him

[@martinintrospective3491]

@@jackflash743 I visited Norman in Ford Prison . He asked me to help him get his first book published . Park hurst Tales . RIP Norman Parker .

[@marcuswalton2922]

Not only did the United States have gansters, England had them as well.

[@admiralbenbow5083]

I always had it that it was the Krays that were taken out on WC day, but no. I am wiser now.

[@c4r5on88]

I was looking forward to this but 1.53 in and I'm done. We don't need acting or actors. Just straight up information and people being interviewed.

[@davidqualls1766]

Someone in replies wrote that this was "an American" production. If one views the end credits it is from Quebec.

[@DenBen-bj1rg]

Anyone who knows the deadman scrapyard from south london was the one

[@612TheMarshal]

Back then the police were corrupt…….what’s changed lol

[@davidfitzgerald5110]

The Nashies Never Get Enough Coverage ..

[@woodsnake4157]

The actor that portrays Charlie Richardson was born at least 150 miles from South London. I doubt he's even from the south. He's sounds as bad as the American bloke in Mary Poppins,that tried to intimidate an English accent. The documentary lacks authenticity because of that moody mockney accent, but I did like the animation.

[@leesharpe5610]

Great documentary.the actor portraying Charlie is a joke lol London accent i dont think so lol

[@DenBen-bj1rg]

Jeff deadman and frank fraser could right a book

[@i.marr.6688]

they were way more dangerous than the Kray's ,One mob you wouldn't cross

[@bigprob8744]

Smarter more organised yes! Mainly becouse of charlie he was a shrewed business man maybe more of a over enthusiastic business man than a gangster..more dangerous than the krays ? Very debatable the krays were out and out villains who actually enjoyed the violence,extreme violence at that where as the richardsons were only really violent when neccasary,the krays were bumpin people off,cornel got a bullet thru the head you dont really get more dangerous than that tbf.

[@i.marr.6688]

@@bigprob8744 Ronnie and Reggie always used weapons and always fought a long side one another and some of their firm, Ron shot Cornell because he knew Cornell wasn't scared of him. And the Kray's couldn't rob a gas meter , Although the Krays were violent they didn't murder very well, Ron couldn't wait until Cornell to come out and while Cornell was alone no witnesses and kills Georg Reg lets all go to a party and butcher Jack the Hat in front of about dozen witnesses. And Freddie Foreman helped them and got sick of them and was going to iron both of them out had they beat their 1969 trial

[@davidfitzgerald5110]

@@i.marr.6688 Ya But How Are The Richardson's More Dangerous When They Never Killed Anybody That We Are Aware Of? Your Correct About The Cornell And Macvity Murders But The Mitchell Murder Was Very Organized, So Organized They Got Away With It, So They Could Be Like That When They Needed To But Unfortunately For Them They Were A Pair Of Psychos ..

[@bigprob8744]

@@i.marr.6688 but why were the richardsons more dangerous? thats what you said the richardson smacked about a few people that ripped them off for alot of money,dished out a few beatings here and there if someone crossed the lines,standard procedure tbf i mean they werent goin to go to the police were they ..the torture trial was a farce one big fit up it would never have stood up in court today,all the teeth pulling ect was no medical records or anything to prove any of this happened yes a few people got knocked about but it was all grossly exaggerated for obvious reasons either way the richardsons werent that smart that they got sent down a couple if years before the twins i mean charlie done 25 years and hadnt killed anyone or even used a weapon,yes the krays used weapons knives guns ect you can inflict more damage with a weapon exactly the sort of reason id say the twins were more dangerous more violent and they dished out violence at a whim,were they clever criminals ? No i agree there

[@i.marr.6688]

@@davidfitzgerald5110 Just because the Richardson's didn't kill anyone doesn't mean they are less dangerous and I saw on the Tv show "Real Crime" about Charlie and Eddie and it said Charlie ordered two murders ,The Richardson's kept out of the limelight unlike the Kray's ,and they had serious gangsters on their firm Jimmy Moody Mad Frankie , George Cornell ,If you look up on KZbin you might get the Real Crime about the Richardson's

[@imranpatel356]

Every thing was easy in the 60s,you just needed balls and a brain..you could of made it

[@J.Harry.T]

They didn’t ‘make it’. They got nicked.

[@constableconstable2563]

If you were to compare Charlie Richardson to the Kray twins, the Krays were brute force whereas Charlie was a finely honed scalpel.

[@TheGwimWeaper]

Yet the Krays are still legend.

[@Franko180489]

Fan boy much

[@heresjohnny1219]

@@TheGwimWeaper incestuous paedophiles and nothing more !

[@zolsomogyi2331]

Looks like ade edmondson

[@DenBen-bj1rg]

It wasn't a black box it was red

[@frankiewalnuts]

The worse acting I've ever seen LOL LOL

[@pershorefoodbanktrusselltr3632]

The guys accent as a Londoner is terrible! He+sounds Welsh!

[@grahamjones6106]

The Richardsons and the Krays were no angels however,as with the USA, the streets of our cities and the cities in the USA, they were a hell of a lot safer before the likes of the Krays, the Richardsons and across the pond, John Gotti were sent to prison,fact.