Richard Todd

Actor

1919-06-11 – 2009-12-03 · 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.

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• Ziua cea mai lungă (1962) — Maj. John Howard
• Tracul (1950) — Jonathan Cooper
• Asylum (1972) — Walter
• Distrugătorii de baraje (1955) — Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
• Operation Crossbow (1965) — Wing Cmdr. Kendall
• House of the Long Shadows (1983) — Sam Allyson
• The Big Sleep (1978) — Commander Barker
• The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) — Robin Hood
• Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (1970) — Basil Hallward
• Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958) — Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
• Nu te lăsa niciodată (1960) — John Cummings
• The Virgin Queen (1955) — Sir Walter Raleigh
• D-Day the Sixth of June (1956) — Lt. Col. John Wynter
• The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961) — Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
• Saint Joan (1957) — Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
• The Sword and the Rose (1953) — Charles Brandon
• Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) — Richard Trevelyan
• Death Drums Along the River (1963) — Inspector Harry Sanders
• The Interrupted Journey (1949) — John North
• Trădătorul din lagărul 127 (1959) — Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
• Venetian Bird (1952) — Edward Mercer
• A Man Called Peter (1955) — The Rev. Peter Marshall
• Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue (1953) — Rob Roy MacGregor
• The Hasty Heart (1949) — Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan