Richard Todd
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Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd (11 June 1919 – 3 December 2009) was an Irish actor known for his leading man roles of the 1950s. He received a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male, and an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance as Corporal Lachlan MacLachlan in the 1949 film The Hasty Heart. His other notable roles include Jonathan Cooper in Stage Fright (1950), Wing Commander Guy Gibson in The Dam Busters (1955), Sir Walter Raleigh in The Virgin Queen (1955), and Major John Howard in The Longest Day (1962). He was previously a Captain in the British Army during the Second World War, fighting in the D-Day landings as a member of the 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Todd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
The Longest Day (1962)
as Maj. John Howard
Stage Fright (1950)
as Jonathan Cooper
House of the Long Shadows (1983)
as Sam Allyson
The Virgin Queen (1955)
as Sir Walter Raleigh
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957)
as Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
Dorian Gray (1970)
as Basil Hallward
The Dam Busters (1955)
as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
Operation Crossbow (1965)
as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)
as Darrell
D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)
as Lt. Col. John Wynter
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
as Robin Hood
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
The Big Sleep (1978)
as Commander Barker
The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)
as Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
A Yank at Oxford (1938)
as Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance (2000)
as Self
The Sword and the Rose (1953)
as Charles Brandon
Don't Bother to Knock (1961)
as Bill Ferguson
Asylum (1972)
as Walter
Subterfuge (1968)
as Col. Victor Redmayne
Venetian Bird (1952)
as Edward Mercer
The Secrets of the Bed (1954)
as Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue (1953)
as Rob Roy MacGregor
Death Drums Along the River (1963)
as Inspector Harry Sanders
Saint Joan (1957)
as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992)
as Lord Roberts
A Man Called Peter (1955)
as The Rev. Peter Marshall
For Them That Trespass (1949)
as Herbert Edward Logan
Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
as Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
The Sky is Falling (1975)
as Terence
No. 1 of the Secret Service (1977)
as Arthur Loveday
The Hasty Heart (1949)
as Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
Never Let Go (1960)
as John Cummings
The Riddle of Robin Hood (1952)
as Self
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
as Richard Trevelyan
Jenny's War (1985)
as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
Flesh and Blood (1951)
as Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
24 Hours of a Woman's Life (1952)
as the young man
Doctor Who: Kinda (1982)
as Sanders
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France (1956)
as Comte Axel von Fersen
The Next Scream You Hear (1974)
as George Tulliver
Olympus Force: The Key (1988)
as Lord Wisden
The Hellions (1961)
as Sam Hargis
The Interrupted Journey (1949)
as John North
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich (1996)
Actor
Beautiful Lies (1992)
as H.G. Wells
The Love-Ins (1967)
as Dr. Jonathan Barnett
The Naked Earth (1958)
as Danny
Intent to Kill (1958)
as Dr. Bob McLaurin
The Boys (1962)
as Victor Webster
Portrait of Clare (1950)
as Robert Hart
Stars Meet in Moscow (1959)
as Self
Danger Within (1959)
as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
Coast of Skeletons (1965)
as Harry Sanders
Good Morning, Boys! (1937)
as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
Um Homem e o Cinema (1976)
as Self (archive footage)
Home Before Midnight (1979)
as Geoffrey Steele
The Very Edge (1963)
as Geoffrey Lawrence
Wuthering Heights (1953)
as Heathcliff
The Gap (1937)
as Orderly (uncredited)
Elstree Story (1952)
as Himself