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