Richard Todd profile
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Richard Todd

11th June 1919 Dublin, Ireland Acting

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.

59 Movies 14 TV Shows 76 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Asylum poster
Asylum 17th November 1972 as Walter
Subterfuge poster
Subterfuge 12th December 1968 as Col. Victor Redmayne
The Boys poster
The Boys 31st August 1962 as Victor Webster
Saint Joan poster
Saint Joan 8th May 1957 as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
The Dam Busters poster
The Dam Busters 16th May 1955 as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
The Gap poster
The Gap 1st September 1937 as Orderly (uncredited)
Thriller poster
Thriller 14th April 1973 as George Tulliver