Tony Richardson (June 5, 1928 – November 14, 1991) was an English theatre and Academy Award-winning film director and producer.

Richardson was born Cecil Antonio Richardson in Shipley, Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans (Campion) and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist. He attended Ashville College, Harrogate.

Representative of the British "New Wave" of directors, he developed the ideas that led to the formation of the English Stage Company, along with his close friend George Goetschius and George Devine. As a young director, Richardson directed plays such as Pericles at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1958. Richardson later co-founded Woodfall Films with the dramatist John Osborne. Richardson and Osborne eventually fell out during production of the film Charge of the Light Brigade.

In 1964 Richardson received two Academy Awards (Best Director and Best Picture) for Tom Jones (1963). Richardson later began work on Mahogany (1975), starring Diana Ross, but was fired by Motown head Berry Gordy shortly after production began. Gordy took over direction himself.

He was married to the actress Vanessa Redgrave between 1962 and 1967 (he left her for actress Jeanne Moreau), and had two daughters, Natasha Richardson (born 1963) and Joely Richardson (born 1965), both of whom are actresses.

Richardson was bisexual (which he had carefully hidden for as long as possible), and died of complications from AIDS at 63 in 1991.

Antonio "Tony" Richardson (born December 12, 1971 in Frankfurt, Germany), is an American football fullback for the New York Jets of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 1994. He played college football at Auburn.

Richardson spent 11 seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs from 1995 to 2005 and earned two Pro Bowl selections with the team. He was named to the Pro Bowl for a third time in 2007 with the Minnesota Vikings.

Father of Natasha Richardson and Joely Richardson.

In 1970 he planned to make a film about the dancer Nijinskij, with Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev and French actress Claude Jade, but it was never released.

Directed 7 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Hugh Griffith (I), Diane Cilento, Edith Evans (I), Joyce Redman and Jessica Lange. Lange won for Blue Sky (1994).

One of the British "New Wave" directors.

Father-in-law of actor Liam Neeson. Former father-in-law of producer Tim Bevan (I).