Richard Todd
Acting
- Born:
- 1919-06-11
- Died:
- 2009-12-03
- Place of birth:
- Dublin, Ireland
Biography
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
Filmography
British Film Forever
The Royal
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Midsomer Murders
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
Silent Witness
Beautiful Lies
Virtual Murder
Heartbeat
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Elstree: Britain's Hollywood
Olympus Force: The Key
Jenny's War
Jenny's War
The Last Place on Earth
Murder, She Wrote
House of the Long Shadows
Doctor Who: Kinda
Home Before Midnight
The Big Sleep
No. 1 of the Secret Service
Um Homem e o Cinema
The Sky is Falling
The Next Scream You Hear
Boy Dominic
Thriller
Asylum
Dorian Gray
Subterfuge
The Love-Ins
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Operation Crossbow
Coast of Skeletons
Theatre 625
Death Drums Along the River
Doctor Who
The Very Edge
The Longest Day
The Boys
The Hellions
Don't Bother to Knock
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Never Let Go
Stars Meet in Moscow
Danger Within
Intent to Kill
The Naked Earth
Chase a Crooked Shadow
Saint Joan
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
D-Day the Sixth of June
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France
The Virgin Queen
The Dam Busters
A Man Called Peter
The Secrets of the Bed
Wuthering Heights
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue