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The films of Richardson's mid-career had nothing in common beyond shrewd collaborations with very talented people.

Among his acting stars were Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, David Hemmings, Nicol Williamson, Marianne Faithfull, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Mick Jagger, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield and Judi Dench.

His musical composers included Antoine Duhamel, John Addison, and Shel Silverstein.

His screenwriters were Jean Genet, Christopher Isherwood, Marguerite Duras, Edward Bond ( adapting Vladimir Nabokov ), and Edward Albee.

Richardson and Osborne eventually fell out during production of the film Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1968 ).

The basic issue was Osborne's unwillingness to go through the rewrite process, more arduous in film than it is in the theatre.

Richardson himself had a different version.

In his autobiography ( p. 195 ) he writes that Osborne was angry at being replaced, in a small rôle, by Laurence Harvey to whom the producers had obligations.

Osborne took literary revenge by creating a fictionalised and pseudonymous Richardson — a domineering and arrogant character who everyone hated — in his play Hotel in Amsterdam.