Richard Todd
Acting
Born: June 11, 1919 · Dublin, Ireland
Died: December 3, 2009 (aged 90)
Highest Rated
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.
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Movies (54)
The Longest Day
Maj. John Howard
Stage Fright
Jonathan Cooper
D-Day the Sixth of June
Lt. Col. John Wynter
A Yank at Oxford
Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
Asylum
Walter
House of the Long Shadows
Sam Allyson
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Rob Roy MacGregor
The Hasty Heart
Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
Operation Crossbow
Wing Cmdr. Kendall
The Dam Busters
Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
Dorian Gray
Basil Hallward
The Virgin Queen
Sir Walter Raleigh
Never Let Go
John Cummings
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
Lord Roberts
The Big Sleep
Commander Barker
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Robin Hood
The Next Scream You Hear
George Tulliver
The Sword and the Rose
Charles Brandon
Chase a Crooked Shadow
Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
For Them That Trespass
Herbert Edward Logan
Coast of Skeletons
Harry Sanders
Saint Joan
Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
The Sky is Falling
Terence
The Secrets of the Bed
Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
Doctor Who: Kinda
Sanders
No. 1 of the Secret Service
Arthur Loveday
Don't Bother to Knock
Bill Ferguson
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Darrell
Subterfuge
Col. Victor Redmayne
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
Beautiful Lies
H.G. Wells
Venetian Bird
Edward Mercer
Death Drums Along the River
Inspector Harry Sanders
Danger Within
Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
Jenny's War
Gen. Benjamin Cutler
Lightning Strikes Twice
Richard Trevelyan
Good Morning, Boys!
Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France
Comte Axel von Fersen
Olympus Force: The Key
Lord Wisden
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
the young man
The Love-Ins
Dr. Jonathan Barnett
Home Before Midnight
Geoffrey Steele
A Man Called Peter
The Rev. Peter Marshall
The Hellions
Sam Hargis
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
1996
Intent to Kill
Dr. Bob McLaurin
The Very Edge
Geoffrey Lawrence
The Boys
Victor Webster
Portrait of Clare
Robert Hart
The Naked Earth
Danny
Flesh and Blood
Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
The Interrupted Journey
John North
The Gap
Orderly (uncredited)
TV Shows (13)
Midsomer Murders
Charles Edmonton · 1 eps
Doctor Who
Sanders · 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
Alec Scofield · 1 eps
Silent Witness
1 eps
Heartbeat
Harold Beecham · 1 eps
Theatre 625
Edmund Gurney · 1 eps
Thriller
George Tulliver · 1 eps
The Last Place on Earth
Mr. Barnes · 7 eps
Virtual Murder
Judge Rawcliffe · 1 eps
British Film Forever
1 eps
Boy Dominic
Capt. Richard Bulman · 13 eps
Jenny's War
Gen. Benjamin Cutler · 4 eps
The Royal
Hugh Hirst · 1 eps
