Richard Todd
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 11, 1919
- Died
- December 3, 2009
- Birthplace
- Dublin, Ireland
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
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance 2000
as Self
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich 1996
Actor
Beautiful Lies 1992
as H.G. Wells
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls 1992
as Lord Roberts
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker 1991
as Self (archive footage)
Olympus Force: The Key 1988
as Lord Wisden
Jenny's War 1985
as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
House of the Long Shadows 1983
as Sam Allyson
Doctor Who: Kinda 1982
as Sanders
Home Before Midnight 1979
as Geoffrey Steele
The Big Sleep 1978
as Commander Barker
No. 1 of the Secret Service 1977
as Arthur Loveday
Um Homem e o Cinema 1976
as Self (archive footage)
The Sky is Falling 1975
as Terence
The Next Scream You Hear 1974
as George Tulliver
Asylum 1972
as Walter
Dorian Gray 1970
as Basil Hallward
Subterfuge 1968
as Col. Victor Redmayne
The Love-Ins 1967
as Dr. Jonathan Barnett
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita 1965
as Darrell
Operation Crossbow 1965
as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
Coast of Skeletons 1965
as Harry Sanders
Death Drums Along the River 1963
as Inspector Harry Sanders
The Very Edge 1963
as Geoffrey Lawrence
The Longest Day 1962
as Maj. John Howard
The Boys 1962
as Victor Webster
The Hellions 1961
as Sam Hargis
Don't Bother to Knock 1961
as Bill Ferguson
The Long and the Short and the Tall 1961
as Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
Never Let Go 1960
as John Cummings
Stars Meet in Moscow 1959
as Self
Danger Within 1959
as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
Intent to Kill 1958
as Dr. Bob McLaurin
The Naked Earth 1958
as Danny
Chase a Crooked Shadow 1958
as Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
Saint Joan 1957
as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst 1957
as Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
D-Day the Sixth of June 1956
as Lt. Col. John Wynter
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France 1956
as Comte Axel von Fersen
The Virgin Queen 1955
as Sir Walter Raleigh
The Dam Busters 1955
as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
A Man Called Peter 1955
as The Rev. Peter Marshall
The Secrets of the Bed 1954
as Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
- Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 1953
as Heathcliff
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue 1953
as Rob Roy MacGregor
The Sword and the Rose 1953
as Charles Brandon
Venetian Bird 1952
as Edward Mercer
24 Hours of a Woman's Life 1952
as the young man
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men 1952
as Robin Hood
The Riddle of Robin Hood 1952
as Self
- Elstree Story
Elstree Story 1952
as Himself
Lightning Strikes Twice 1951
as Richard Trevelyan
Flesh and Blood 1951
as Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
Portrait of Clare 1950
as Robert Hart
Stage Fright 1950
as Jonathan Cooper
The Interrupted Journey 1949
as John North
The Hasty Heart 1949
as Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
For Them That Trespass 1949
as Herbert Edward Logan
Old Bones of the River 1938
as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
A Yank at Oxford 1938
as Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
The Gap 1937
as Orderly (uncredited)
Good Morning, Boys! 1937
as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
Credits from TMDB.