Richard Todd
Acting
Born: 1919-06-11 in Dublin, Ireland
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
Charles Edmonton
Doctor Who
Sanders
Murder, She Wrote
Alec Scofield
Silent Witness
Heartbeat
Harold Beecham
Theatre 625
Edmund Gurney
The Longest Day
Maj. John Howard
Thriller
George Tulliver
British Film Forever
The Big Sleep
Commander Barker
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Boy Dominic
Capt. Richard Bulman
House of the Long Shadows
Sam Allyson
Virtual Murder
Judge Rawcliffe
Operation Crossbow
Wing Cmdr. Kendall
The Last Place on Earth
Mr. Barnes
Stage Fright
Jonathan Cooper
Flesh and Blood
Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
The Dam Busters
Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
Venetian Bird
Edward Mercer
Subterfuge
Col. Victor Redmayne
Asylum
Walter
The Virgin Queen
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Robin Hood
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)
Saint Joan
Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
D-Day the Sixth of June
Lt. Col. John Wynter
Dorian Gray
Basil Hallward
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
Lord Roberts
Beautiful Lies
H.G. Wells
The Secrets of the Bed
Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
A Yank at Oxford
Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
The Boys
Victor Webster
The Sword and the Rose
Charles Brandon
Jenny's War
Gen. Benjamin Cutler
Chase a Crooked Shadow
Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
Danger Within
Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Darrell
Coast of Skeletons
Harry Sanders
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Rob Roy MacGregor