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