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.
Filmography
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
Beautiful Lies
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Olympus Force: The Key
Jenny's War
House of the Long Shadows
Doctor Who: Kinda
Home Before Midnight
The Big Sleep
No. 1 of the Secret Service
Um Homem e o Cinema
The Sky is Falling
The Next Scream You Hear
Asylum
Dorian Gray
Subterfuge
The Love-Ins
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Operation Crossbow
Coast of Skeletons
Death Drums Along the River
The Very Edge
