Richard Todd
Acting
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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.
Filmography
British Film Forever
2007
The Royal
2003
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
Midsomer Murders
1997
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
1996
Silent Witness
1996
Beautiful Lies
1992
Virtual Murder
1992
Heartbeat
1992
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
1992
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Elstree: Britain's Hollywood
1989
Olympus Force: The Key
1988
Jenny's War
1985
Jenny's War
1985
The Last Place on Earth
1985
Murder, She Wrote
1984
House of the Long Shadows
1983
Doctor Who: Kinda
1982
Home Before Midnight
1979
The Big Sleep
1978
No. 1 of the Secret Service
1977
Um Homem e o Cinema
1976
The Sky is Falling
1975
The Next Scream You Hear
1974
Boy Dominic
1974
Thriller
1973
Asylum
1972
Dorian Gray
1970
Subterfuge
1968
The Love-Ins
1967
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965
Operation Crossbow
1965
Coast of Skeletons
1965
Theatre 625
1964
Death Drums Along the River
1963
Doctor Who
1963
The Very Edge
1963
The Longest Day
1962
The Boys
1962
The Hellions
1961
Don't Bother to Knock
1961
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961
Never Let Go
1960
Stars Meet in Moscow
1959
Danger Within
1959
Intent to Kill
1958
The Naked Earth
1958
Chase a Crooked Shadow
1958
Saint Joan
1957
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
1957
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956
Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
1956
The Virgin Queen
1955
The Dam Busters
1955
A Man Called Peter
1955
The Secrets of the Bed
1954
Wuthering Heights
1953
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953
The Sword and the Rose
1953
Venetian Bird
1952
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1952
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1952
Elstree Story
1952
The Riddle of Robin Hood
1952
Lightning Strikes Twice
1951
Flesh and Blood
1951
Portrait of Clare
1950
Stage Fright
1950
The Interrupted Journey
1949
The Hasty Heart
1949
For Them That Trespass
1949
A Yank at Oxford
1938
The Gap
1937
Good Morning, Boys!
1937