Personal Life
In September 1924, Richardson married the 17-year-old student actress Muriel ("Kit") Hewitt (1907–1942); the marriage was childless but devoted. Kit contracted sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica) and died in 1942 after a long illness. In 1944 Richardson married the actress Meriel ("Mu") Forbes, a member of the theatrical Forbes-Robertson family. They had one son, Charles David (1945–1998).
Richardson died of a stroke, aged 80, and was interred at Highgate Cemetery, London.
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