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