Richard Todd
Birthday: 1919-06-11 | Place of Birth: Dublin, IrelandRichard 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
Acting
Role
as Lord Roberts
as Lord Wisden
as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
as Sam Allyson
as Sanders
as Arthur Loveday
as Terence
as Capt. Richard Bulman
as George Tulliver
as Walter
as Basil Hallward
as Col. Victor Redmayne
as Darrell
as Geoffrey Lawrence
as Inspector Harry Sanders
as John Cummings
as Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
as Victor Webster
as Bill Ferguson
as Sam Hargis
as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
as Dr. Bob McLaurin
as Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
as Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
