Richard Todd

Known for ActingBorn 1919-06-11Died 2009-12-03Dublin, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Naked Earth

Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance

Um Homem e o Cinema

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

The Royal

Boy Dominic

Silent Witness

Doctor Who

Wuthering Heights

Midsomer Murders

Murder, She Wrote

Doctor Who: Kinda

The Last Place on Earth

The Longest Day

The Boys

Heartbeat

Virtual Murder

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

Theatre 625

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Thriller

Chase a Crooked Shadow

The Virgin Queen

Good Morning, Boys!

Jenny's War

Flesh and Blood

The Dam Busters

Operation Crossbow

The Hasty Heart

Stage Fright

The Long and the Short and the Tall

The Hellions

House of the Long Shadows

Portrait of Clare

A Yank at Oxford

A Man Called Peter

Never Let Go

Saint Joan

No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich

The Sword and the Rose

Danger Within

Jenny's War

Asylum

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

Venetian Bird

The Big Sleep

Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France

British Film Forever