Cast
Richard Todd
Acting
Cast
Richard Todd
Known for
Acting
Born
1919-06-11
From
Dublin, Ireland
Died
2009-12-03
Also known as Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd
Biography
Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd (11 June 1919 β 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 β 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.
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7.6
MOVIE1962
The Longest Day
as Maj. John Howard
β
6.2
MOVIE1952
Venetian Bird
as Edward Mercer
β
6.8
MOVIE1950
Stage Fright
as Jonathan Cooper
MOVIE1992
Beautiful Lies
as H.G. Wells
β
6.9
MOVIE1955
The Dam Busters
as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
β
6.0
MOVIE1972
Asylum
as Walter
β
5.3
MOVIE1956
D-Day the Sixth of June
as Lt. Col. John Wynter
β
5.3
MOVIE1968
Subterfuge
as Col. Victor Redmayne
β
6.4
MOVIE1953
The Sword and the Rose
as Charles Brandon
β
6.4
MOVIE1983
House of the Long Shadows
as Sam Allyson
β
6.7
MOVIE1965
Operation Crossbow
as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
β
5.1
MOVIE1970
Dorian Gray
as Basil Hallward
β
5.7
MOVIE1951
Lightning Strikes Twice
as Richard Trevelyan
β
5.9
MOVIE1978
The Big Sleep
as Commander Barker
β
6.3
MOVIE1959
Danger Within
as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
β
7.1
MOVIE1958
Chase a Crooked Shadow
as Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
β
5.2
MOVIE1953
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
as Rob Roy MacGregor
β
6.9
MOVIE1961
The Long and the Short and the Tall
as Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
β
6.5
MOVIE1957
Saint Joan
as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
β
7.0
MOVIE1955
The Virgin Queen
as Sir Walter Raleigh
β
4.7
MOVIE1975
The Sky is Falling
as Terence
β
6.2
MOVIE1952
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
as Robin Hood
β
5.3
MOVIE1963
Death Drums Along the River
as Inspector Harry Sanders
β
6.7
MOVIE1938
A Yank at Oxford
as Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
β
5.5
MOVIE1979
Home Before Midnight
as Geoffrey Steele
β
8.0
MOVIE1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self (archive footage)
β
5.1
MOVIE1992
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
as Lord Roberts
β
4.1
MOVIE1977
No. 1 of the Secret Service
as Arthur Loveday
β
7.0
MOVIE1951
Flesh and Blood
as Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
β
3.8
MOVIE1954
The Secrets of the Bed
as Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
β
6.9
MOVIE1949
The Hasty Heart
as Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
β
4.8
MOVIE1961
Don't Bother to Knock
as Bill Ferguson
MOVIE1952
The Riddle of Robin Hood
as Himself
β
5.8
MOVIE1965
Coast of Skeletons
as Harry Sanders
β
7.3
MOVIE1957
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
as Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
β
5.8
MOVIE1949
The Interrupted Journey
as John North
β
7.5
MOVIE1982
Doctor Who: Kinda
as Sanders
β
5.3
MOVIE1949
For Them That Trespass
as Herbert Edward Logan
β
10.0
MOVIE1958
The Naked Earth
as Danny
β
6.7
MOVIE1961
The Hellions
as Sam Hargis
β
6.0
MOVIE1985
Jenny's War
as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
β
6.5
MOVIE1960
Never Let Go
as John Cummings
β
5.2
MOVIE1958
Intent to Kill
as Dr. Bob McLaurin
β
5.3
MOVIE1963
The Very Edge
as Geoffrey Lawrence
β
2.5
MOVIE1988
Olympus Force: The Key
as Lord Wisden
β
7.5
MOVIE1962
The Boys
as Victor Webster
β
4.8
MOVIE1967
The Love-Ins
as Dr. Jonathan Barnett
β
8.0
MOVIE1953
Wuthering Heights
as Heathcliff
β
6.1
MOVIE1956
Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
as Comte Axel von Fersen
β
7.2
MOVIE1937
Good Morning, Boys!
as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
β
4.4
MOVIE1965
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
as Darrell
β
5.8
MOVIE1952
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
as the young man
β
5.5
MOVIE1974
The Next Scream You Hear
as George Tulliver
β
6.0
MOVIE1996
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
MOVIE1959
Stars Meet in Moscow
as Self
β
6.7
MOVIE1950
Portrait of Clare
as Robert Hart
β
6.6
MOVIE1955
A Man Called Peter
as The Rev. Peter Marshall
β
9.0
MOVIE1976
Um Homem e o Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1952
Elstree Story
as Himself
MOVIE1937
The Gap
as Orderly (uncredited)
MOVIE2000
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
as Self