The Secret Life and Tragic Ending of Richard Greene

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Vintage Hollywood 1960s

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@ronflynn5043 Ай бұрын

Richard greene gave me as a child a wonderful and exciting series, bless him, and all who knew him well.

Ай бұрын

I'll never forget the opening of the Robin Hood show with the twang of the arrow embedding itself in a large tree. Richard Greene was a great actor. His Robin Hood was an unforgettable part of my childhood.

@johnlavery6116 Ай бұрын

I quite agree with you, wonderful days!..Ireland

@raybenstead2548 Ай бұрын

I'm now 80 and remember Richard Greene as Robin Hood very well. When it came on the TV the streets would empty as if by magic as us kids went home or round to a friends who had a TV to watch our hero.

@marilynmicoletti2812 Ай бұрын

Eye candy! 🤦‍♀️

@larry181green Ай бұрын

I quite agree, I’m currently watching re-run of the series on ( Talking Pictures) of what I used to watch as a kid.

@janetd5317 Ай бұрын

What a life he had....very handsome man too..

@lovelyjubbly1010 Ай бұрын

My childhood too I loved his gentlemanly attitude, always helping anyone who needed it. RIP Richard!

@mitzigaynor-rz5zn Ай бұрын

In Australia Robin Hood was always shown on tv on Sunday evenings in the 1950’s followed by Disneyland. All of the children were washed, fed and in our pajama’s and dressing gowns when we sat down to watch Robin Hood. Brings back such happy memories.

@takata98 Ай бұрын

Likewise, we had to be ready "Weetabix" finished and ready for bed when the show finished. (As a luxury we got to watch an extra show each year we celebrated a birthday).

@fayedeutsher9387 29 күн бұрын

Yes - loved those days - I still remember the opening song!

@maryarigho5868 Ай бұрын

Robin Hood was a childhood favourite in our house.

@sozanmarshall2832 Ай бұрын

Mine t

@stephenbethell7548 Ай бұрын

@@sozanmarshall2832Absolutely!

@Elainerulesutube Ай бұрын

Mine, too.

@peaceful3250 Ай бұрын

And mine

@lucytupper69 Ай бұрын

And ours. Loved it!

@rosemaryjessop4045 Ай бұрын

My first love forever, the best Robin Hood of all time. RIP Richard dear❤

@christopherspurr8717 Ай бұрын

One of the happiest memories of my childhood. He will always be my Robin Hood.

@MrLeedebt 28 күн бұрын

Indeed. Robin Hood brings back great childhood memories.

@briancorrigan120 Ай бұрын

Watched all the Robin Hood episodes when a young kid on a small black and white set,good memories.

@junehodgson8633 Ай бұрын

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen😀😀

@catherinedilworth1363 Ай бұрын

With his band of men …

@canopusstar5157 Ай бұрын

@@catherinedilworth1363 …feared by the bad, loved by the good, Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood!

@takata98 Ай бұрын

After my family purchased their first B&W Ferguson television this became a firm family favourite in my childhood. It's one of the few shows where I can recall the whole introduction. Richard Greene was so perfect for the part. Happy memories!.

@peterswires8439 Ай бұрын

We had our own version of the title song: "Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the house Robin Hood, Robin Hood, on his chocolate mouse".

@hazelholmshaw9415 Ай бұрын

Feared by the bad loved by the good,

@lestorhaslam Ай бұрын

Richard Greene would have made a great James Bond.

@jennycarter1149 Ай бұрын

I agree.

@HowardRiach Ай бұрын

I was born in West Bridgeford Nottingham 1951, Richard Green was my hero as Robin Hood. We emigrated to Australia in 1963 and luckily Australia had the whole series. He and Roger Moore as I anhoe were my most memorable TV shows👍🏼👌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@LINDABELLAMY-q3j Ай бұрын

IM A NOTTINGHAM GIRL.73 YRS YOUNG.HES THE ONLY ROBIN HOOD IN MY HEART .HE WAS A BRILLIANT ACTOR .R I P .SIR.PROUD TO BE NOTTINGHAM BORN AND TO KNOW HES OUR ROBIN HOOD.❤❤❤❤❤

@patriciamaxfield5907 Ай бұрын

I'm a Nottingham girl too, close to 80 yrs young...and I couldn't agree more

@LINDABELLAMY-q3j Ай бұрын

@@patriciamaxfield5907 bless you sweet heart.im at BOSWORTH NOW.LEFT NOTTINGHAM IN 1968.WORKED AT RALEIGH THEN BOOTS FACTORY, D 10, D8..LOVED IT.WAS ALWAYS TOLD HERE HOW NICE NOTTINGHAM GIRLS ARE..🤣🤣🤣 SO TRUE...👏❤🌹

@sherrymacgregor8491 Ай бұрын

I’m the same age (73) and watched Robin Hood here in the USA! I loved him!

@johnlavery6116 Ай бұрын

Richard Greene was the best as Robin Hood, always looked forward to watching after school.

@MrLeedebt 28 күн бұрын

Yes, we did too.

@elaineduker.6355 14 күн бұрын

I loved watching this as a kid, everybody I knew looked forward to watching it.

@derekstocker6661 Ай бұрын

Thank you for this, well documented and narrated history of a great star and certainly the very best Robin Hood. RIP Sir.

@Bigbro28 Ай бұрын

Home from school to watch Robin Hood. Gone too soon but, thankfully, we still have him on film.

@sophiafletcher314 Ай бұрын

Wednesday teatime was Robin Hood on ITV starring Richard Greene. He was gorgeous. ❤❤❤❤

@mickwillis6981 Ай бұрын

Tea. What it is:- the young leaves of camellia sinensis dried and infused in boiling water. What it is not:- a meal.

Ай бұрын

Even as a straight guy I have to admit he was.

@tiggywinkle20 Ай бұрын

Yes, he certainly was all that❤️

@MrDaiseymay Ай бұрын

@@mickwillis6981 you are clearly not ENGLISH, are you ?

@mickwillis6981 Ай бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay I most certainly am English. I eat breakfast in the morning, lunch at mid-day and dinner in the evening. Tea is a hot drink. Not a meal.

@marvinc9994 Ай бұрын

Richard's dying from a sudden heart-attack - on stage, what's more - is probably EXACTLY the way he'd have wanted it: clean, quick, and dramatic! Hardly a 'tragic' ending, I'd have thought.

@catherinedilworth1363 Ай бұрын

I remember watching the Robin Hood tv show and thinking how handsome Richard Greene was, and a hood actor with a good speaking voice. I was around 9, 10 years old.

@catherinedilworth1363 Ай бұрын

Good actor

@amandamcauley Ай бұрын

Ditto.

@occonnaking9454 Ай бұрын

Loved his Robin Hood. My high school friends all sang his theme song on our way out to the archery field in phys ed. I can still sing that song, not that anyone would want me to. He was so handsome.

@AnneMacfarlane-kv9cy Ай бұрын

I can hear the introductory music to the series,I remember how we’d look forward to it 😊

@hindlewalker9330 Ай бұрын

When as a child l was watching Robin Hood my mum walked into the room and said l danced with him during the war in Skipton Yorkshire

@mtngrl5859 Ай бұрын

I watched Robin Hood in reruns in the 1960's as a child, loved the show!

@Dave-cv1th Ай бұрын

One of my favorites growing up. We were familiar with him before Robin Hood, having seen many of his televised movies. Always the perfect hero, and someone to look up to. I thought he aged suddenly by the early 70's, and wondered about his health. He left us far too early.

@phillipsmith4501 Ай бұрын

We watched him in glorious black and white loved it growing up in the 60s the whole family here in Australia

@jeantriggs5090 Ай бұрын

Richard Green, I was a child when it was first shown, but, I loved him then, and as I grew older, I loved him still. A very good actor, he had a kindness about him, he was nice as well as very handsome. He is Robin Hood, and he always will be, so sorry he was taken so young. Where ever you are, love and best wishes. ❤😅😋

@kennethbrown2429 Ай бұрын

When all us kids got out of school we used to go to a neighbours house to watch Robin hood, all of us sitting cross legged, the house was the only one in the street with a TV, happy days.

@lindagarczynski2415 Ай бұрын

Loved watching the Robin Hood shows.

@marynoonan6111 Ай бұрын

He had remarkably nice straight white teeth for an Englishman born 1919. He was a very handsome younger man.

@xenia367 Ай бұрын

I think it sounds like he had a very full life and a quick death, not really a tragic story.

@peterswires8439 Ай бұрын

Just click bait.

@robharding5345 Ай бұрын

A 60's must watch series, as Robin Hood.

@luminair11 28 күн бұрын

Fell in love with Richard as Robin Hood when I was a girl, many decades ago......remember seeing him on black and white tv etc.❤

@jeanglendinning1860 Ай бұрын

i remember him as robin Hood in the TV series when i was about 12 years old.

@payres48 29 күн бұрын

We had a black and white Bush TV when I was a kid in the UK. I well remember being glued to the screen when Robin Hood was on.

@blazingsaddles7145 23 күн бұрын

Loved Richard Greene. He was most definitely the best Robin Hood ever. How sad he died too soon. Seemed a lovely man too and a great actor. RIP Richard 🙏🏼

@AmandathePandaBooks Ай бұрын

Your forgetting forever amber! His sly comedic timing in that was impeccable!!

@margarethughes3763 Ай бұрын

Forever Amber was great. It's on U tube now.

@elaineduker.6355 14 күн бұрын

Having read the books "Forever Amber" the film was very tame, I can't understand why this story has never been made into a TV series, warts & all this time, it would be brilliant.

@fuzzacker. Ай бұрын

David Niven not nyven, if you get AI to narrate please get it right

@richardw3470 Ай бұрын

And I suppose Bernadette O'Farrell's (sp) name is the Gaelic pronunciation. Jarring, aren't they?

@absonus Ай бұрын

Boring sing song narration I thought.

@johndean4765 Ай бұрын

F kK AI we don't want or need it.

@370530e Ай бұрын

What’s the advantage of using an AI narrator?

@richardw3470 Ай бұрын

@@370530e Less expensive, maybe? Some 'authors' speak English with a strong foreign accent, difficult to understand. I wonder if they listen to the playback and don't realise the pronunciation is correct but not in the current application. Native English speakers or those really fluent in the language recognize the oops.

@RickyParker-lt8ug Ай бұрын

Best robin hood. 😅

@dennismoore1134 Ай бұрын

No, he was good, but no one beats Errol Flynn.

@PamelaMacmillan-pc4rx Ай бұрын

@@dennismoore1134no mr, Greene was the best.

@dennismoore1134 Ай бұрын

@@PamelaMacmillan-pc4rx You are entitled to your opinion, undoubtedly, but millions of people worldwide, including me, disagree with you. But you cling to that belief, if it gives you comfort & makes you feel better.

@justmepercy720 Ай бұрын

@@dennismoore1134Carey Elwes!

@r.crompton2286 Ай бұрын

" Tragic" ending? Myocardial infarction is a normal cause of death. He went quickly, not suffering for months/years thereafter. Not a long life but a full one.

@LlyleHunter 26 күн бұрын

They always have the same title

@mikepowell2776 Ай бұрын

I’m sure you meant that in 1958 he married his second wife as opposed to two wives. That would not only be illegal, it would be plain insane. Robin Hood was a staple of the tv week back in the day, the theme tune still remembered (along with various parodies of the song!)

@digidol52 Ай бұрын

The narration is AI. It was probably written as "2nd wife".

@shootingmatchltd.4433 Ай бұрын

I stage managed a thriller play at the Yvonne Aunaud Theatre in Guildford in 1971 called Make No Mistake in which Richard Greene played the lead

@stephaniecorbett5356 Ай бұрын

He was my first crush…I was five!

@kellybrown8638 Ай бұрын

Richard Greene was never a member of the "Rat Pack". These were ALL Las Vegas entertainers!

@jimowen3054 Ай бұрын

That's correct !!! BOO the mis-information......

@morrisanderson3180 Ай бұрын

that's correct. someone needs to check the facts.

@robbarbieri8676 29 күн бұрын

Unless they were talking about the original version of the Rat Pack, the Holy Hills Rat Pack, led by Bogart and Bacall, including Sinatra and Judy Garland as "members". Once Bogie died, Sinatra took over and even was engaged to Bacall for awhile. It then evolved into the Frank/Dean/Sammy, etc. version most people are familiar with. Maybe Greene was associated with the first version. As for mistakes, maybe he had a relationship with Anita Ekberg prior to his second marriage in 1958. At the time of his first marriage in 1941, Anita was 10 years old!

@robbarbieri8676 29 күн бұрын

Stupid autocorrect, it's the Holmby Hills Rat Pack, if you're checking.

@dennismuchmore8169 Ай бұрын

He was a hero to thousands of kids as Robin. Seeing him again on Talking Pictures after watching The Batman movie reminded me of a gentler time when good guys always won and had a smile on their faces. Incidentally, the theme tune is sung by Dick James who was the first music publisher of the Beatles and Elton John.

@richardnelson-ux1zz Ай бұрын

I liked him in the roll of Robin hood excellent actor

@jessicaellina3878 Ай бұрын

Top three childhood tv shows in our house..Robin Hood, Lassie and Hawkeye🙂🙂🙂

@amandamcauley Ай бұрын

Mine were Robin Hood, Bonanza and The Huckleberry Hound Show.😊

@LindaGlanville Ай бұрын

Yes I can still remember the words of the opening song of Robin Hood and even had my own bow The programme came on every Saturday at tea time

@mickymantle3233 Ай бұрын

As a child - I was split between Robin Hood & William Tell. For some reason I loved William Tell's Crossbow - but now I own a Longbow.

@redset11 Ай бұрын

Me too. And Maid Marian was beautiful.

@lauramcintyre483 Ай бұрын

My mother loved him.

@philipwilliams2310 Ай бұрын

...... human life IS Transient, but I don't understand the 'TRAGIC' Side to It? Compared to Many; His Time Here was GOOD 👍

@MaritzaAgosto-e1g Ай бұрын

Great actor and handsome he was ... RIP 💐🌸🪷🌹🌺🌻🌼🌷🪻⚘️

@RaymondFunnell-bs1wl Ай бұрын

Will Scarlet was played by John Shlesinger later to become a film producer

@dteske3475 Ай бұрын

The only reason I kept on with this poor AI narration was I wanted to learn more about Richard Greene. Usually, I leave at the first boo-boo!

@BeachsideHank Ай бұрын

Thanks to the Robin Hood series, as a kid I found my lifetime role model: the Sherriff of Nottingham. For sheer scoundrelly, malevolence, vindictiveness, and overall deviousness, he was my hero, and my playmates would argue who was to play Robin but I always championed Alan Wheatly's Sherriff- there was one who always wanted to be Maid Marion too, but that is a story for another day.

@canopusstar5157 Ай бұрын

I can still remember the words of the song from the show. Also watching the show, I did my own version of quarter staff and broke the neighborhood bully’s wooden pirate sword.

@paulm3033 Ай бұрын

A quick death from a heart attack doing something he enjoyed at a slightly young age of 67 isn't all that tragic in my book .

@dereckbrannigan6195 Ай бұрын

Post acting, I remember he bought a stud farm in Ireland and lived there

@angloaust1575 Ай бұрын

Remember seeing him in pantomine northampton In 1950s! As robin hood!

@degsbabe Ай бұрын

What else ? He was as Robin Hood as George Reeves was to superman.RIP

@Berta6742 Ай бұрын

With our 1st tv set as a young kid I loved to wait for Robin Hood with Lorne Greene - he had that suave charisma while dealing with the sherwood brigands ❤❤😊

@JanetTufnell 19 күн бұрын

I loved Robin Hood and am pleased to see it is being run again on TPTV. I love the way he speaks in posh English!

@andreacapri8222 21 күн бұрын

Watching this video, I can honestly say he is the most handsome man of all the actors i have ever seen.

@rasheedenightoola5183 Ай бұрын

I grew up watching Robin Hood. Great great show. Nostalgic times TRINIDAD

@33Donner77 Ай бұрын

He died too early, but it was on stage, his life's passion. I recently saw "The Adventures of Robinhood" series on METV.

@kathyraygoza3299 Ай бұрын

Very much enjoyed Richard Greene's p❤erfomances when I saw him with Sonia Henie and in Hounds Of Baskerville.

@paulstamp4106 Ай бұрын

I hate these A.I voice overs

@gailburkett9702 Ай бұрын

My favourite TV Robin Hood.

@rexharrison6827 24 күн бұрын

Loved "The Adventures of Robin Hood". I saw them well after they were first released, probably around 1962 or '63 in my country, since television only arrived in NZ in 1960. But, even so, we were spoiled for adventure back then, with shows like Ivanhoe, Richard the Lionheart, Sir Francis Drake, William Tell, Sir Lancelot, The Buccaneers and, around the same time, the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson shows, like Supercar, Fireball XL5, even Twizzle! I can remember the theme song and the opening credit sequence, with the arrow thudding into the tree, but none of the episodes come to mind, now. I do remember them forming a special place in my childhood of sixty years ago. I know a number of these shows can be seen on KZbin or even, in some cases, on DVD, but I'm a little reluctant to rewatch them now, lest they lose their magic for me! Richard Greene wasn't the first television Robin Hood. That distinction goes to Patrick Troughton (Dr Who) who played the part in a BBC 6-part mini-series in 1953. Typical of the Beeb and other networks in those days, the show seems to have been scrubbed over, with the tapes repurposed. Only ten minutes of the second episode remain and it seems like it was a lively show well acted, though entirely stage-bound and broadcast live.

@davepayne586 Ай бұрын

i watched this as a kid,

@kathallen1972 Ай бұрын

I loved watching it too in my childhood, it’s still on one channel and watch it

@eddypauly22 Ай бұрын

Watched him in the 50's on the old CBC . The show was a family treat because no matter what British actors can go from Shakespeare to modern comedy and TV shows like this where they plied their craft like no one else and still do .

@Patrick-x9h Ай бұрын

watched 'robin hood' in my pre-teen years when there were 3 tv channels in black & white

@MarionKirkman Ай бұрын

Every afternoon at 4pm in the outback australia i would run home from school

@alanturkentine3330 29 күн бұрын

Ha. Ithought it was just me that liked Richard Greenes Robin. Loved it.Have all episodes on DVD and actually watched them.

@neildickson5394 Ай бұрын

He was an unusually handsome man. I thought so the first time I saw him in "The Little Princess". As to being close to the "Rat Pack", I have never heard of any connection. He would have been a miuch older man when that was in vogue, the late 50's and 60's.

@silvialeprattomazza6214 Ай бұрын

He also appeared in The Hounds of the Baskervilles in the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Home movies.

@simoncoss3321 Ай бұрын

Da da diddlee da da daaaaaaa - twang! hissssss! thud! Unforgettable

@daisuke6072 Ай бұрын

Nice to hear this interesting biography.

@stephenoliver1437 Ай бұрын

One of my favourite tv viewing in the sixties believe Richard had interest in horses and lived in Suffolk RIP richard

@grandmaruthtube3306 18 күн бұрын

Use to love him in Robin Hood.He went to school with my mother in law in Plymouth

@patriciamaxfield5907 Ай бұрын

I think my Mother loved him as Robin Hood as much as we kids did!

@johnfisher247 Ай бұрын

"He collapsed on stage in front of fellow actors and crew". The word is not "crew". Ships have crews. The theatre and movies have "casts". Americans say production crew for cameramen and sound engineers. This does not include the director, actors etc. The theatre (where he died) does not use crew

@michaelgibson4705 Ай бұрын

Robin Hood riding through the glen,With his band of men,feared by the BBC,loved by the ITV Robin Hood ,Robin Hood 😂can it really be 65 yrs

@51WCDodge 24 күн бұрын

See the Wheatabix version 😅

@waynejones4594 Ай бұрын

The Robin hood series definitely brings back such wonderful childhood memories.

@NorfolkSceptic 22 күн бұрын

Richard Greene was Robin Hood, and yet I remember the poor scenery, wobbling, from time to time, but it didn't matter. The actors gelled together, and the stories flowed. They were so upbeat, without any need for technology, and the baddies were soooo bad! The casting director must have been good. :)

@CarolOkane-dv5tf Ай бұрын

Loved watching this

@glennwilson6507 Ай бұрын

I enjoyed watching Richard Greene as Robin Hood, when I was a child.

@NormanAllen-ps9ju Ай бұрын

What was his secret life that you advertised??

@roydavis5613 Ай бұрын

He would have made a great James Bond, had the time been different !!

@catherinedilworth1363 Ай бұрын

He had a side kick on the series, I forget his name. Was it Friar Tuck?

@karenblackadder1183 Ай бұрын

Played by Alexander Guage. Also Little John played by Archie Duncan.

@justmepercy720 Ай бұрын

Also Alan A’Dale and Will Scarlet.

@hughcampbell-ww3bf Ай бұрын

The machine voice-over is very difficult to listen to.

@orlando469 21 күн бұрын

Lembro bem dele do filme "Gavião do Deserto" (The Desert Hawk), de 1950. Este foi um dos filmes marcantes da minha infância.

@bonniecampbell4862 Ай бұрын

I loved him in the TV series Robin Hood and the riding instructor in The Little Princess.

@RobertEWaters 28 күн бұрын

Don't forget William Tell!

@Prospro8 Ай бұрын

No words about his politics, his distaste for the HUAC, the fact that Robin Hood was written to provide blacklisted screenwriters with work? That was part of his great achievement too.

@mikethespike7579 Ай бұрын

Greene only became a celebrity among the general public in Britain in the mid 1960s. Until then he was only known among well to do theatre goers and those few who could afford a television and were able to watch the Robin Hood TV series. But by the mid 1960s most families had a TV and the BBC, which often warmed up passed TV series, rebroadcast Robin Hood to a vastly broader audience. As a kid in the 1960s I was shocked when I saw Greene in the flesh, he was well over ten years older than depicted in the Robin Hood series. To claim that Greene was associated with the Rat Pack is quite an exaggeration. The Rat Pack often invited celebrities to one night stands with them on stage. He definitely knew some of the members of the Rat Pack personally, but he was most certainly not an associate member of their Rat Pack.