Richard 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.
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Movies (62)
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
2000 · Self
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
1996
Beautiful Lies
1992 · H.G. Wells
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
1992 · Lord Roberts
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991 · Self (archive footage)
Olympus Force: The Key
1988 · Lord Wisden
Jenny's War
1985 · Gen. Benjamin Cutler
House of the Long Shadows
1983 · Sam Allyson
Doctor Who: Kinda
1982 · Sanders
Home Before Midnight
1979 · Geoffrey Steele
The Big Sleep
1978 · Commander Barker
No. 1 of the Secret Service
1977 · Arthur Loveday
Um Homem e o Cinema
1976 · Self (archive footage)
The Sky is Falling
1975 · Terence
The Next Scream You Hear
1974 · George Tulliver
Asylum
1972 · Walter
Dorian Gray
1970 · Basil Hallward
Subterfuge
1968 · Col. Victor Redmayne
The Love-Ins
1967 · Dr. Jonathan Barnett
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965 · Darrell
Operation Crossbow
1965 · Wing Cmdr. Kendall
Coast of Skeletons
1965 · Harry Sanders
Death Drums Along the River
1963 · Inspector Harry Sanders
The Very Edge
1963 · Geoffrey Lawrence
The Longest Day
1962 · Maj. John Howard
The Boys
1962 · Victor Webster
The Hellions
1961 · Sam Hargis
Don't Bother to Knock
1961 · Bill Ferguson
The Long and the Short and the Tall
1961 · Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
Never Let Go
1960 · John Cummings
Stars Meet in Moscow
1959 · Self
Danger Within
1959 · Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
Intent to Kill
1958 · Dr. Bob McLaurin
The Naked Earth
1958 · Danny
Chase a Crooked Shadow
1958 · Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
Saint Joan
1957 · Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
1957 · Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956 · Lt. Col. John Wynter
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France
1956 · Comte Axel von Fersen
The Virgin Queen
1955 · Sir Walter Raleigh
The Dam Busters
1955 · Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
A Man Called Peter
1955 · The Rev. Peter Marshall
The Secrets of the Bed
1954 · Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
Wuthering Heights
1953 · Heathcliff
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953 · Rob Roy MacGregor
The Sword and the Rose
1953 · Charles Brandon
Venetian Bird
1952 · Edward Mercer
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1952 · the young man
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1952 · Robin Hood
Elstree Story
1952 · Himself
The Riddle of Robin Hood
1952 · Self
Lightning Strikes Twice
1951 · Richard Trevelyan
Flesh and Blood
1951 · Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
Portrait of Clare
1950 · Robert Hart
Stage Fright
1950 · Jonathan Cooper
The Interrupted Journey
1949 · John North
The Hasty Heart
1949 · Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
For Them That Trespass
1949 · Herbert Edward Logan
Old Bones of the River
1938 · Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
A Yank at Oxford
1938 · Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
The Gap
1937 · Orderly (uncredited)
Good Morning, Boys!
1937 · Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
TV shows (15)
British Film Forever
2007
The Royal
2003 · Hugh Hirst
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Charles Edmonton
Silent Witness
1996
Virtual Murder
1992 · Judge Rawcliffe
Heartbeat
1992 · Harold Beecham
Elstree: Britain's Hollywood
1989 · Self
Jenny's War
1985 · Gen. Benjamin Cutler
The Last Place on Earth
1985 · Mr. Barnes
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Alec Scofield
Boy Dominic
1974 · Capt. Richard Bulman
Thriller
1973 · George Tulliver
Theatre 625
1964 · Edmund Gurney
Doctor Who
1963 · Sanders