General Gordon, Michelangelo and Cardinal Richelieu have all been played on screen by which actor?
Cardinal Richelieu the many versions of Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers". He is usually portrayed as a sinister character, but the 1950 "Cyrano de Bergerac" shows Richelieu (played by Edgar Barrier in a scene not from Rostand's original verse drama), as compassionate to Cyrano's financial plight, and playfully having enjoyed the duel at the theatre. Charlton Heston, Tcheky Karyo, Stephen Rea, Tim Curry, Christoph Waltz, Vincent Price, and Peter Capaldi are just a few of the actors to have portrayed Cardinal Richelieu on film and television. The 1839 play "Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy", by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, portrayed Richelieu uttering the now famous
Cardinal Richelieu Cardinal Richelieu Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (; 9 September 15854 December 1642), commonly referred to as Cardinal Richelieu ( ), was a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman. He was consecrated as a bishop in 1607 and was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Catholic Church and the French government, becoming a cardinal in 1622, and King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624. He remained in office until his death in 1642; he was succeeded by Cardinal Mazarin, whose career he had fostered. Cardinal de Richelieu was often known