Richard Todd
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday11 June 1919
Died3 December 2009 (age 90)
Place of birthDublin, Ireland
Known credits76
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)…
British Film Forever
2007
The Royal
2003 · Hugh Hirst
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
2000 · Self
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Charles Edmonton
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
1996
Silent Witness
1996
Beautiful Lies
1992 · H.G. Wells
Virtual Murder
1992 · Judge Rawcliffe
Heartbeat
1992 · Harold Beecham
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
1992 · Lord Roberts
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991 · Self (archive footage)
Elstree: Britain's Hollywood
1989 · Self
Olympus Force: The Key
1988 · Lord Wisden
Jenny's War
1985 · Gen. Benjamin Cutler
Jenny's War
1985 · Gen. Benjamin Cutler
The Last Place on Earth
1985 · Mr. Barnes
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Alec Scofield
House of the Long Shadows
1983 · Sam Allyson
Doctor Who: Kinda
1982 · Sanders
Home Before Midnight
1979 · Geoffrey Steele
The Big Sleep
1978 · Commander Barker
No. 1 of the Secret Service
1977 · Arthur Loveday
Um Homem e o Cinema
1976 · Self (archive footage)
The Sky is Falling
1975 · Terence
The Next Scream You Hear
1974 · George Tulliver
Boy Dominic
1974 · Capt. Richard Bulman
Thriller
1973 · George Tulliver
Asylum
1972 · Walter
Dorian Gray
1970 · Basil Hallward
Subterfuge
1968 · Col. Victor Redmayne
The Love-Ins
1967 · Dr. Jonathan Barnett
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965 · Darrell
Operation Crossbow
1965 · Wing Cmdr. Kendall
Coast of Skeletons
1965 · Harry Sanders
Theatre 625
1964 · Edmund Gurney
Death Drums Along the River
1963 · Inspector Harry Sanders
Doctor Who
1963 · Sanders
The Very Edge
1963 · Geoffrey Lawrence
The Longest Day
1962 · Maj. John Howard
The Boys
1962 · Victor Webster
The Hellions
1961 · Sam Hargis
Don't Bother to Knock
1961 · Bill Ferguson
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961 · Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
Never Let Go
1960 · John Cummings
Stars Meet in Moscow
1959 · Self
Danger Within
1959 · Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
Intent to Kill
1958 · Dr. Bob McLaurin
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