Richard Todd
Actor
Born June 11, 1919 in Dublin, Ireland
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
British Film Forever
The Royal
Hugh Hirst
Midsomer Murders
Charles Edmonton
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
Silent Witness
Beautiful Lies
H.G. Wells
Virtual Murder
Judge Rawcliffe
Heartbeat
Harold Beecham
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
Lord Roberts
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)
Elstree: Britain's Hollywood
Self
Olympus Force: The Key
Lord Wisden
Jenny's War
Gen. Benjamin Cutler
Jenny's War
Gen. Benjamin Cutler
The Last Place on Earth
Mr. Barnes
Murder, She Wrote
Alec Scofield
House of the Long Shadows
Sam Allyson
Doctor Who: Kinda
Sanders
Home Before Midnight
Geoffrey Steele
The Big Sleep
Commander Barker
No. 1 of the Secret Service
Arthur Loveday
Um Homem e o Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Sky is Falling
Terence
The Next Scream You Hear
George Tulliver
Boy Dominic
Capt. Richard Bulman
Thriller
George Tulliver
Asylum
Walter
Dorian Gray
Basil Hallward
Subterfuge
Col. Victor Redmayne
The Love-Ins
Dr. Jonathan Barnett
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Darrell
Operation Crossbow
Wing Cmdr. Kendall
Coast of Skeletons
Harry Sanders
Theatre 625
Edmund Gurney
Death Drums Along the River
Inspector Harry Sanders
Doctor Who
Sanders
The Very Edge
Geoffrey Lawrence
The Longest Day
Maj. John Howard
The Boys
Victor Webster
The Hellions
Sam Hargis
Don't Bother to Knock
Bill Ferguson
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
Never Let Go
John Cummings
Stars Meet in Moscow
Self
Danger Within
Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
Intent to Kill
Dr. Bob McLaurin
The Naked Earth
Danny
Chase a Crooked Shadow
Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
Saint Joan
Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
D-Day the Sixth of June
Lt. Col. John Wynter
Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
Comte Axel von Fersen
The Virgin Queen
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Dam Busters
Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
A Man Called Peter
The Rev. Peter Marshall
The Secrets of the Bed
Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Rob Roy MacGregor
The Sword and the Rose
Charles Brandon
Venetian Bird
Edward Mercer
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
the young man
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Robin Hood
The Riddle of Robin Hood
Himself
Lightning Strikes Twice
Richard Trevelyan
Flesh and Blood
Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
Portrait of Clare
Robert Hart
Stage Fright
Jonathan Cooper
The Interrupted Journey
John North
The Hasty Heart
Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
For Them That Trespass
Herbert Edward Logan
A Yank at Oxford
Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
The Gap
Orderly (uncredited)
Good Morning, Boys!
Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)