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