Acting

Richard Todd

Born 1919-06-11 · Dublin, Ireland

Died 2009-12-03

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.

Credits

Newest first

British Film Forever
2007
The Royal
as Hugh Hirst
2003
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
as Self
2000
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
Midsomer Murders
as Charles Edmonton
1997
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
1996
Silent Witness
1996
Beautiful Lies
as H.G. Wells
1992
Virtual Murder
as Judge Rawcliffe
1992
Heartbeat
as Harold Beecham
1992
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
as Lord Roberts
1992
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self (archive footage)
1991
Elstree: Britain's Hollywood
as Self
1989
Olympus Force: The Key
as Lord Wisden
1988
Jenny's War
as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
1985
Jenny's War
as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
1985
The Last Place on Earth
as Mr. Barnes
1985
Murder, She Wrote
as Alec Scofield
1984
House of the Long Shadows
as Sam Allyson
1983
Doctor Who: Kinda
as Sanders
1982
Home Before Midnight
as Geoffrey Steele
1979
The Big Sleep
as Commander Barker
1978
No. 1 of the Secret Service
as Arthur Loveday
1977
Um Homem e o Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
1976
The Sky is Falling
as Terence
1975
The Next Scream You Hear
as George Tulliver
1974
Boy Dominic
as Capt. Richard Bulman
1974
Thriller
as George Tulliver
1973
Asylum
as Walter
1972
Dorian Gray
as Basil Hallward
1970
Subterfuge
as Col. Victor Redmayne
1968
The Love-Ins
as Dr. Jonathan Barnett
1967
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
as Darrell
1965
Operation Crossbow
as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
1965
Coast of Skeletons
as Harry Sanders
1965
Theatre 625
as Edmund Gurney
1964
Death Drums Along the River
as Inspector Harry Sanders
1963
Doctor Who
as Sanders
1963
The Very Edge
as Geoffrey Lawrence
1963
The Longest Day
as Maj. John Howard
1962
The Boys
as Victor Webster
1962
The Hellions
as Sam Hargis
1961
Don't Bother to Knock
as Bill Ferguson
1961
The Long and the Short and the Tall
as Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
1961
Never Let Go
as John Cummings
1960
Stars Meet in Moscow
as Self
1959
Danger Within
as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
1959
Intent to Kill
as Dr. Bob McLaurin
1958
The Naked Earth
as Danny
1958
Chase a Crooked Shadow
as Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
1958
Saint Joan
as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
1957
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
as Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
1957
D-Day the Sixth of June
as Lt. Col. John Wynter
1956
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France
as Comte Axel von Fersen
1956
The Virgin Queen
as Sir Walter Raleigh
1955
The Dam Busters
as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
1955
A Man Called Peter
as The Rev. Peter Marshall
1955
The Secrets of the Bed
as Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
1954
Wuthering Heights
as Heathcliff
1953
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
as Rob Roy MacGregor
1953
The Sword and the Rose
as Charles Brandon
1953
Venetian Bird
as Edward Mercer
1952
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
as the young man
1952
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
as Robin Hood
1952
Elstree Story
as Himself
1952
The Riddle of Robin Hood
as Self
1952
Lightning Strikes Twice
as Richard Trevelyan
1951
Flesh and Blood
as Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
1951
Portrait of Clare
as Robert Hart
1950
Stage Fright
as Jonathan Cooper
1950
The Interrupted Journey
as John North
1949
The Hasty Heart
as Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
1949
For Them That Trespass
as Herbert Edward Logan
1949
A Yank at Oxford
as Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
1938
The Gap
as Orderly (uncredited)
1937
Good Morning, Boys!
as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
1937