Acting
Richard Todd
EN, PT, ES, DE cinema · 62 credits
Born
11 June 1919
Died
3 December 2009 (aged 90)
Birthplace
Dublin, Ireland
Also known as Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd
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
Filmography
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
as Lord Roberts
Beautiful Lies
as H.G. Wells
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self (archive footage)
Olympus Force: The Key
as Lord Wisden
Jenny's War
as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
House of the Long Shadows
as Sam Allyson
Doctor Who: Kinda
as Sanders
Home Before Midnight
as Geoffrey Steele
The Big Sleep
as Commander Barker
No. 1 of the Secret Service
as Arthur Loveday
Um Homem e o Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
The Sky is Falling
as Terence
The Next Scream You Hear
as George Tulliver
Asylum
as Walter
Dorian Gray
as Basil Hallward
Subterfuge
as Col. Victor Redmayne
The Love-Ins
as Dr. Jonathan Barnett
Operation Crossbow
as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
Coast of Skeletons
as Harry Sanders
Death Drums Along the River
as Inspector Harry Sanders
The Very Edge
as Geoffrey Lawrence
The Boys
as Victor Webster
The Longest Day
as Maj. John Howard
The Long and the Short and the Tall
as Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
The Hellions
as Sam Hargis
Don't Bother to Knock
as Bill Ferguson
Never Let Go
as John Cummings
Danger Within
as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
Chase a Crooked Shadow
as Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
Intent to Kill
as Dr. Bob McLaurin
The Naked Earth
as Danny
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
as Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
Saint Joan
as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
D-Day the Sixth of June
as Lt. Col. John Wynter
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France
as Comte Axel von Fersen
The Dam Busters
as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
The Virgin Queen
as Sir Walter Raleigh
A Man Called Peter
as The Rev. Peter Marshall
The Secrets of the Bed
as Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
The Sword and the Rose
as Charles Brandon
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
as Rob Roy MacGregor
Wuthering Heights
1953
Wuthering Heights
as Heathcliff
Venetian Bird
as Edward Mercer
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
as the young man
Lightning Strikes Twice
as Richard Trevelyan
Flesh and Blood
as Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
Stage Fright
as Jonathan Cooper
Portrait of Clare
as Robert Hart
The Hasty Heart
as Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
For Them That Trespass
as Herbert Edward Logan
The Interrupted Journey
as John North
A Yank at Oxford
as Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
Old Bones of the River
as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
Good Morning, Boys!
as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
The Gap
as Orderly (uncredited)