Macbeth played by Ralph Richardson.

In 1952 Richardson appeared at the Stratford-upon-Avon festival at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, but had mixed reviews: his Macbeth, directed by Gielgud, was thought unconvincingly villainous ("Richardson's playing of Macbeth suggests a fatal disparity between his temperament and the part"). Tynan professed himself "unmoved to the point of paralysis," though blaming Gielgud more than Richardson, saying he "seems to have imagined that Ralph Richardson, with his comic, Robeyesque cheese face, was equipped to play Macbeth." Courtesy of Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Image courtesy of the New York Public Library, Billy Rose Collection.