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.
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Filmography
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
2000
as Self
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
1996
Beautiful Lies
1992
as H.G. Wells
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
1992
as Lord Roberts
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
as Self (archive footage)
Olympus Force: The Key
1988
as Lord Wisden
Jenny's War
1985
as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
House of the Long Shadows
1983
as Sam Allyson
Doctor Who: Kinda
1982
as Sanders
Home Before Midnight
1979
as Geoffrey Steele
The Big Sleep
1978
as Commander Barker
No. 1 of the Secret Service
1977
as Arthur Loveday
Um Homem e o Cinema
1976
as Self (archive footage)
The Sky is Falling
1975
as Terence
The Next Scream You Hear
1974
as George Tulliver
Asylum
1972
as Walter
Dorian Gray
1970
as Basil Hallward
Subterfuge
1968
as Col. Victor Redmayne
The Love-Ins
1967
as Dr. Jonathan Barnett
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965
as Darrell
Operation Crossbow
1965
as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
Coast of Skeletons
1965
as Harry Sanders
Death Drums Along the River
1963
as Inspector Harry Sanders
The Very Edge
1963
as Geoffrey Lawrence