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