Richard Todd
Known for ActingBorn 1919-06-11 — died 2009-12-03Dublin, 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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Known for
The Longest Day
1962 · as Maj. John Howard
The Dam Busters
1955 · as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
Operation Crossbow
1965 · as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
Stage Fright
1950 · as Jonathan Cooper
The Big Sleep
1978 · as Commander Barker
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1952 · as the young man
Venetian Bird
1952 · as Edward Mercer
Subterfuge
1968 · as Col. Victor Redmayne
Asylum
1972 · as Walter
Danger Within
1959 · as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965 · as Darrell
The Virgin Queen
1955 · as Sir Walter Raleigh
Beautiful Lies
1992 · as H.G. Wells
Flesh and Blood
1951 · as Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
The Secrets of the Bed
1954 · as Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
D-Day the Sixth of June
1956 · as Lt. Col. John Wynter
The Hasty Heart
1949 · as Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
House of the Long Shadows
1983 · as Sam Allyson