Tommy Richards (112666)

Name: Tommy Richards
Birth Name: Thomas Albert Richards
Hometown: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthplace: Dalton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Died: 1946-01-04 (Age:46)
Height: 173cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

According to an item with the caption, Parsons Theater, in the August 8, 1932 edition of the Times-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) on Newspapers.com, James Cagney played in the role of a boxer in the film, "Winner Take All," which was scheduled to be shown in the Parsons Theater, which was located in Wilkes-Barre. Cagney apparently impressed a crowd of seven hundred extras who were cheering after watching him fight in first round of a scheduled ten-round bout. "Tommy Richards, former Pacific Coast lightweight champion, now a film editor at Warner Bros-First National Studios," had watched Cagney through half of the round before giving the following opinion, "He can box with any of 'em. He's the best actor-boxer that I have seen in ten years."

According to his funeral notice in the January 8, 1946 edition of the Los Angeles Times on Newspapers.com, services for Tommy Richards, former lightweight boxer, were scheduled to take place on January 8, 1946. Richards was "a favorite at Hollywood Legion Stadium some twenty years ago" and died last Friday (January 4, 1946) due to a heart attack. During the years before his death, "he had been acknowledged one of the best cutters in the film business." Richards worked at Warner Brothers for years, "most recently at M.G.M."