Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1919-06-11
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
Richard 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Todd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
as Charles Edmonton
as Sanders
as Alec Scofield
as Jonathan Cooper
as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
as Robin Hood
as Charles Brandon
as Capt. Richard Bulman
as Sir Walter Raleigh
as Sam Allyson
as Basil Hallward
as Mr. Barnes
as Rob Roy MacGregor
as John Cummings
as Edward Mercer
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
as Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
as Lt. Col. John Wynter
as Harold Beecham
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