Terry Richards

David Terence Richards (2 November 1932 – 14 June 2014)

Richards' most famous scene was as the scripted "large Arabian swordsman" in the 1981 Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark. However, after filming the initial shots of the scene (and with Harrison Ford suffering from dysentery), after lunch, Ford and Spielberg agreed to cut the scene down to a single gunshot, giving Jones a humorously unfair advantage. It was later voted in at No.5 on Playboy magazine's list of best all-time scenes, Richards lived his later life in Ruislip. His funeral service and burial took place on 24 June 2014 at Breakspear Crematorium following his death from a sudden cardiac arrest in his sleep.

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