The Longest Day1962
As Maj. John Howard
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Richard Todd
Born
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.
Filmography (61)
The Big Sleep1978
As Commander Barker
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Stage Fright1950
As Jonathan Cooper
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Venetian Bird1952
As Edward Mercer
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Subterfuge1968
As Col. Victor Redmayne
TMDb 5.3 / 10
The Dam Busters1955
As Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
TMDb 6.9 / 10
House of the Long Shadows1983
As Sam Allyson
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Operation Crossbow1965
As Wing Cmdr. Kendall
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker1991
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Flesh and Blood1951
As Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Asylum1972
As Walter
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Danger Within1959
As Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
TMDb 6.3 / 10
D-Day the Sixth of June1956
As Lt. Col. John Wynter
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue1953
As Rob Roy MacGregor
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Beautiful Lies1992
As H.G. Wells
Saint Joan1957
As Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Dorian Gray1970
As Basil Hallward
TMDb 5.1 / 10
The Sword and the Rose1953
As Charles Brandon
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men1952
As Robin Hood
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Virgin Queen1955
As Sir Walter Raleigh
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls1992
As Lord Roberts
TMDb 5.1 / 10
For Them That Trespass1949
As Herbert Edward Logan
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance2000
As Self
TMDb 9.0 / 10
The Gap1937
As Orderly (uncredited)
A Yank at Oxford1938
As Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Secrets of the Bed1954
As Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
TMDb 3.8 / 10
Intent to Kill1958
As Dr. Bob McLaurin
TMDb 5.2 / 10
No. 1 of the Secret Service1977
As Arthur Loveday
TMDb 4.1 / 10
Don't Bother to Knock1961
As Bill Ferguson
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst1957
As Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Long and the Short and the Tall1961
As Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita1965
As Darrell
TMDb 4.4 / 10
The Hellions1961
As Sam Hargis
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Never Let Go1960
As John Cummings
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Chase a Crooked Shadow1958
As Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Portrait of Clare1950
As Robert Hart
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Coast of Skeletons1965
As Harry Sanders
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Lightning Strikes Twice1951
As Richard Trevelyan
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Sky is Falling1975
As Terence
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights1953
As Heathcliff
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Jenny's War1985
As Gen. Benjamin Cutler
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Hasty Heart1949
As Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Death Drums Along the River1963
As Inspector Harry Sanders
TMDb 5.3 / 10
The Love-Ins1967
As Dr. Jonathan Barnett
TMDb 4.8 / 10
The Naked Earth1958
As Danny
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Good Morning, Boys!1937
As Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Doctor Who: Kinda1982
As Sanders
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Home Before Midnight1979
As Geoffrey Steele
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Riddle of Robin Hood1952
As Himself
A Man Called Peter1955
As The Rev. Peter Marshall
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Interrupted Journey1949
As John North
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Boys1962
As Victor Webster
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Olympus Force: The Key1988
As Lord Wisden
TMDb 2.5 / 10
Stars Meet in Moscow1959
As Self
24 Hours of a Woman's Life1952
As the young man
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Very Edge1963
As Geoffrey Lawrence
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France1956
As Comte Axel von Fersen
TMDb 6.1 / 10
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich1996
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Elstree Story
Elstree Story1952
As Himself
The Next Scream You Hear1974
As George Tulliver
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Um Homem e o Cinema1976
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 9.0 / 10
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