Richard Todd
Acting
Born 1919-06-11 · Dublin, 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.
Known for
The Longest Day
1962 · Movie
Stage Fright
1950 · Movie
The Dam Busters
1955 · Movie
Chase a Crooked Shadow
1958 · Movie
Operation Crossbow
1965 · Movie
The Virgin Queen
1955 · Movie
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961 · Movie
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991 · Movie
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
1957 · Movie
The Hasty Heart
1949 · Movie
Good Morning, Boys!
1937 · Movie
House of the Long Shadows
1983 · Movie
The Boys
1962 · Movie
Never Let Go
1960 · Movie
Saint Joan
1957 · Movie
A Man Called Peter
1955 · Movie
Doctor Who: Kinda
1982 · Movie
A Yank at Oxford
1938 · Movie
The Naked Earth
1958 · Movie
The Sword and the Rose
1953 · Movie
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
2000 · Movie
Um Homem e o Cinema
1976 · Movie
The Hellions
1961 · Movie
Danger Within
1959 · Movie
Portrait of Clare
1950 · Movie
Flesh and Blood
1951 · Movie
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1952 · Movie
Venetian Bird
1952 · Movie
The Riddle of Robin Hood
1952 · Movie
Beautiful Lies
1992 · Movie
Stars Meet in Moscow
1959 · Movie
The Gap
1937 · Movie
Jenny's War
1985 · Movie
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
1996 · Movie
Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
1956 · Movie
The Next Scream You Hear
1974 · Movie
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1952 · Movie
Coast of Skeletons
1965 · Movie
Subterfuge
1968 · Movie
The Interrupted Journey
1949 · Movie
Intent to Kill
1958 · Movie
The Love-Ins
1967 · Movie
Olympus Force: The Key
1988 · Movie
Asylum
1972 · Movie
Lightning Strikes Twice
1951 · Movie
Home Before Midnight
1979 · Movie
The Very Edge
1963 · Movie
The Secrets of the Bed
1954 · Movie
For Them That Trespass
1949 · Movie
Don't Bother to Knock
1961 · Movie
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965 · Movie
The Big Sleep
1978 · Movie
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953 · Movie
Death Drums Along the River
1963 · Movie
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
1992 · Movie
The Sky is Falling
1975 · Movie
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956 · Movie
No. 1 of the Secret Service
1977 · Movie
Dorian Gray
1970 · Movie