Richard Todd
Born: 1919-06-11 in Dublin, Ireland
Died: 2009-12-03
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2007
2003
- The Royal as Hugh Hirst
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Charles Edmonton
1992
- Heartbeat as Harold Beecham
- Virtual Murder as Judge Rawcliffe
- Beautiful Lies as H.G. Wells
- Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls as Lord Roberts
1991
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self (archive footage)
1989
- Elstree: Britain's Hollywood as Self
1988
- Olympus Force: The Key as Lord Wisden
1985
- The Last Place on Earth as Mr. Barnes
- Jenny's War as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
- Jenny's War as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Alec Scofield
1983
- House of the Long Shadows as Sam Allyson
1982
- Doctor Who: Kinda as Sanders
1979
- Home Before Midnight as Geoffrey Steele
1978
- The Big Sleep as Commander Barker
1977
- No. 1 of the Secret Service as Arthur Loveday
1976
- Um Homem e o Cinema as Self (archive footage)
1975
- The Sky is Falling as Terence
1974
- Boy Dominic as Capt. Richard Bulman
- The Next Scream You Hear as George Tulliver
1973
- Thriller as George Tulliver
1972
- Asylum as Walter
1970
- Dorian Gray as Basil Hallward
1968
- Subterfuge as Col. Victor Redmayne
1967
- The Love-Ins as Dr. Jonathan Barnett
1965
- Operation Crossbow as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
- The Battle of the Villa Fiorita as Darrell
- Coast of Skeletons as Harry Sanders
1964
- Theatre 625 as Edmund Gurney
1963
- Doctor Who as Sanders
- The Very Edge as Geoffrey Lawrence
- Death Drums Along the River as Inspector Harry Sanders
1962
- The Longest Day as Maj. John Howard
- The Boys as Victor Webster
1961
- The Hellions as Sam Hargis
- The Long and the Short and the Tall as Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
- Don't Bother to Knock as Bill Ferguson
1960
- Never Let Go as John Cummings
1959
- Danger Within as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
- Stars Meet in Moscow as Self
1958
- Chase a Crooked Shadow as Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
- The Naked Earth as Danny
- Intent to Kill as Dr. Bob McLaurin
1957
- Saint Joan as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
- Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst as Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
1956
- D-Day the Sixth of June as Lt. Col. John Wynter
- Marie-Antoinette Queen of France as Comte Axel von Fersen
1955
- The Dam Busters as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
- The Virgin Queen as Sir Walter Raleigh
- A Man Called Peter as The Rev. Peter Marshall
1954
- The Secrets of the Bed as Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
1953
- The Sword and the Rose as Charles Brandon
- Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue as Rob Roy MacGregor
- Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff
1952
- Venetian Bird as Edward Mercer
- The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men as Robin Hood
- 24 Hours of a Woman's Life as the young man
- The Riddle of Robin Hood as Himself
- Elstree Story as Himself
1951
- Flesh and Blood as Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
- Lightning Strikes Twice as Richard Trevelyan
1950
- Stage Fright as Jonathan Cooper
- Portrait of Clare as Robert Hart
1949
- The Hasty Heart as Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
- The Interrupted Journey as John North
- For Them That Trespass as Herbert Edward Logan
1938
- A Yank at Oxford as Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
1937
- The Gap as Orderly (uncredited)
- Good Morning, Boys! as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)