Richard Todd

Biography

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

Midsomer Murders

Murder, She Wrote

Doctor Who

Silent Witness

Heartbeat

Theatre 625

Thriller

The Longest Day

All Movies (60)

• No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich1996
• Beautiful Lies1992 · as H.G. Wells
• Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls1992 · as Lord Roberts
• Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker1991 · as Self (archive footage)
• Olympus Force: The Key1988 · as Lord Wisden
• Jenny's War1985 · as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
• House of the Long Shadows1983 · as Sam Allyson
• Doctor Who: Kinda1982 · as Sanders
• Home Before Midnight1979 · as Geoffrey Steele
• The Big Sleep1978 · as Commander Barker
• No. 1 of the Secret Service1977 · as Arthur Loveday
• Um Homem e o Cinema1976 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Sky is Falling1975 · as Terence
• The Next Scream You Hear1974 · as George Tulliver
• Asylum1972 · as Walter
• Dorian Gray1970 · as Basil Hallward
• Subterfuge1968 · as Col. Victor Redmayne
• The Love-Ins1967 · as Dr. Jonathan Barnett
• The Battle of the Villa Fiorita1965 · as Darrell
• Operation Crossbow1965 · as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
• Coast of Skeletons1965 · as Harry Sanders
• Death Drums Along the River1963 · as Inspector Harry Sanders
• The Very Edge1963 · as Geoffrey Lawrence
• The Longest Day1962 · as Maj. John Howard
• The Boys1962 · as Victor Webster
• The Hellions1961 · as Sam Hargis
• Don't Bother to Knock1961 · as Bill Ferguson
• The Long and the Short and the Tall1961 · as Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
• Never Let Go1960 · as John Cummings
• Stars Meet in Moscow1959 · as Self
• Danger Within1959 · as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
• Intent to Kill1958 · as Dr. Bob McLaurin
• The Naked Earth1958 · as Danny
• Chase a Crooked Shadow1958 · as Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
• Saint Joan1957 · as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
• Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst1957 · as Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
• D-Day the Sixth of June1956 · as Lt. Col. John Wynter
• Marie-Antoinette Queen of France1956 · as Comte Axel von Fersen
• The Virgin Queen1955 · as Sir Walter Raleigh
• The Dam Busters1955 · as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
• A Man Called Peter1955 · as The Rev. Peter Marshall
• The Secrets of the Bed1954 · as Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
• Wuthering Heights1953 · as Heathcliff
• Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue1953 · as Rob Roy MacGregor
• The Sword and the Rose1953 · as Charles Brandon
• Venetian Bird1952 · as Edward Mercer
• 24 Hours of a Woman's Life1952 · as the young man
• The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men1952 · as Robin Hood
• Elstree Story1952 · as Himself
• The Riddle of Robin Hood1952 · as Himself
• Lightning Strikes Twice1951 · as Richard Trevelyan
• Flesh and Blood1951 · as Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
• Portrait of Clare1950 · as Robert Hart
• Stage Fright1950 · as Jonathan Cooper
• The Interrupted Journey1949 · as John North
• The Hasty Heart1949 · as Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
• For Them That Trespass1949 · as Herbert Edward Logan
• A Yank at Oxford1938 · as Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
• The Gap1937 · as Orderly (uncredited)
• Good Morning, Boys!1937 · as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)

All TV Shows (15)

• British Film Forever2007
• The Royal2003 · as Hugh Hirst
• Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)2000
• Midsomer Murders1997 · as Charles Edmonton
• Silent Witness1996
• Virtual Murder1992 · as Judge Rawcliffe
• Heartbeat1992 · as Harold Beecham
• Elstree: Britain's Hollywood1989 · as Self
• Jenny's War1985 · as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
• The Last Place on Earth1985 · as Mr. Barnes
• Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Alec Scofield
• Boy Dominic1974 · as Capt. Richard Bulman
• Thriller1973 · as George Tulliver
• Theatre 6251964 · as Edmund Gurney
• Doctor Who1963 · as Sanders