Acting credits
73
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Richard Todd
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 58Series: 15
TMDB ID: 20393
IMDb ID: nm0865262
Known for: Acting
Born: June 11, 1919
Died: December 3, 2009
Age: 90
Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1937 - 2007
Years active: 71
Average TMDB rating: 6.67
Wikidata: Q457165
Also known as
Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Richard Todd.
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
1996 • Movie
as H.G. Wells
Beautiful Lies
1992 • Movie
as Lord Roberts
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
1992 • Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991 • Movie
as Lord Wisden
Olympus Force: The Key
1988 • Movie
as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
Jenny's War
1985 • Movie
as Sam Allyson
House of the Long Shadows
1983 • Movie
as Sanders
Doctor Who: Kinda
1982 • Movie
as Geoffrey Steele
Home Before Midnight
1979 • Movie
as Commander Barker
The Big Sleep
1978 • Movie
as Arthur Loveday
No. 1 of the Secret Service
1977 • Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Um Homem e o Cinema
1976 • Movie
as Terence
The Sky is Falling
1975 • Movie
as George Tulliver
The Next Scream You Hear
1974 • Movie
as Walter
Asylum
1972 • Movie
as Basil Hallward
Dorian Gray
1970 • Movie
as Col. Victor Redmayne
Subterfuge
1968 • Movie
as Dr. Jonathan Barnett
The Love-Ins
1967 • Movie
as Darrell
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965 • Movie
as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
Operation Crossbow
1965 • Movie
as Harry Sanders
Coast of Skeletons
1965 • Movie
as Inspector Harry Sanders
Death Drums Along the River
1963 • Movie
as Geoffrey Lawrence
The Very Edge
1963 • Movie
as Maj. John Howard
The Longest Day
1962 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Richard Todd.
1 eps
British Film Forever
2007 • Series
as Hugh Hirst • 1 eps
The Royal
2003 • Series
1 eps
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000 • Series
as Charles Edmonton • 1 eps
Midsomer Murders
1997 • Series
1 eps
Silent Witness
1996 • Series
as Judge Rawcliffe • 1 eps
Virtual Murder
1992 • Series
as Harold Beecham • 1 eps
Heartbeat
1992 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Elstree: Britain's Hollywood
1989 • Series
as Gen. Benjamin Cutler • 4 eps
Jenny's War
1985 • Series
as Mr. Barnes • 7 eps
The Last Place on Earth
1985 • Series
as Alec Scofield • 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
1984 • Series
as Capt. Richard Bulman • 13 eps
Boy Dominic
1974 • Series
as George Tulliver • 1 eps
Thriller
1973 • Series
as Edmund Gurney • 1 eps
Theatre 625
1964 • Series
as Sanders • 1 eps
Doctor Who
1963 • Series