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Richard Todd
- Name: Richard Todd
- Birthday: 1919-06-11
- Also known as: Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd
- Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland
- Popularity: 1.2679
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... Read More
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich | 1996-07-24 |
| Beautiful Lies as H.G. Wells | 1992-08-15 |
| Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls as Lord Roberts | 1992-02-19 |
| Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self (archive footage) | 1991-10-28 |
| Olympus Force: The Key as Lord Wisden | 1988-01-01 |
| Jenny's War as Gen. Benjamin Cutler | 1985-10-25 |
| House of the Long Shadows as Sam Allyson | 1983-06-17 |
| Doctor Who: Kinda as Sanders | 1982-02-09 |
| Home Before Midnight as Geoffrey Steele | 1979-10-18 |
| The Big Sleep as Commander Barker | 1978-03-13 |
| No. 1 of the Secret Service as Arthur Loveday | 1977-10-31 |
| Um Homem e o Cinema as Self (archive footage) | 1976-01-01 |
| The Sky is Falling as Terence | 1975-11-29 |
| The Next Scream You Hear as George Tulliver | 1974-07-06 |
| Asylum as Walter | 1972-11-17 |
| Dorian Gray as Basil Hallward | 1970-04-24 |
| Subterfuge as Col. Victor Redmayne | 1968-12-12 |
| The Love-Ins as Dr. Jonathan Barnett | 1967-07-26 |
| The Battle of the Villa Fiorita as Darrell | 1965-05-26 |
| Operation Crossbow as Wing Cmdr. Kendall | 1965-04-01 |
| Coast of Skeletons as Harry Sanders | 1965-03-19 |
| Death Drums Along the River as Inspector Harry Sanders | 1963-12-20 |
| The Very Edge as Geoffrey Lawrence | 1963-04-30 |
| The Longest Day as Maj. John Howard | 1962-09-25 |
| The Boys as Victor Webster | 1962-08-31 |
| The Hellions as Sam Hargis | 1961-11-27 |
| Don't Bother to Knock as Bill Ferguson | 1961-05-28 |
| The Long and the Short and the Tall as Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem | 1961-02-28 |
| Never Let Go as John Cummings | 1960-06-02 |
| Stars Meet in Moscow as Self | 1959-08-30 |
| Danger Within as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird | 1959-02-17 |
| Intent to Kill as Dr. Bob McLaurin | 1958-07-16 |
| The Naked Earth as Danny | 1958-02-05 |
| Chase a Crooked Shadow as Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr. | 1958-01-16 |
| Saint Joan as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans | 1957-05-08 |
| Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst as Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans | 1957-04-02 |
| D-Day the Sixth of June as Lt. Col. John Wynter | 1956-05-29 |
| Marie-Antoinette Queen of France as Comte Axel von Fersen | 1956-04-27 |
| The Virgin Queen as Sir Walter Raleigh | 1955-07-22 |
| The Dam Busters as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C. | 1955-05-16 |
| A Man Called Peter as The Rev. Peter Marshall | 1955-03-31 |
| The Secrets of the Bed as Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le") | 1954-05-19 |
| Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff | 1953-12-06 |
| Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue as Rob Roy MacGregor | 1953-10-26 |
| The Sword and the Rose as Charles Brandon | 1953-07-23 |
| Venetian Bird as Edward Mercer | 1952-10-01 |
| 24 Hours of a Woman's Life as the young man | 1952-09-10 |
| The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men as Robin Hood | 1952-05-26 |
| The Riddle of Robin Hood as Himself | 1952-01-01 |
| Elstree Story as Himself | 1952-01-01 |
| Lightning Strikes Twice as Richard Trevelyan | 1951-04-12 |
| Flesh and Blood as Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland | 1951-03-06 |
| Portrait of Clare as Robert Hart | 1950-11-13 |
| Stage Fright as Jonathan Cooper | 1950-02-23 |
| The Interrupted Journey as John North | 1949-10-11 |
| The Hasty Heart as Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan | 1949-09-20 |
| For Them That Trespass as Herbert Edward Logan | 1949-04-21 |
| A Yank at Oxford as Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited) | 1938-02-18 |
| The Gap as Orderly (uncredited) | 1937-09-01 |
| Good Morning, Boys! as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited) | 1937-05-27 |
