2009-12-03
1919-06-11107 years, 4 months, and 23 days old
Place of birth:
Dublin, Ireland
Adult:
No
Gender:
Male
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.
Images Gallery
Best Credits: 77
| Title | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Big Sleep | Commander Barker | 5.9 | 1978-03-13 | 1.7378 | ||
Stage Fright | Jonathan Cooper | 6.8 | 1950-02-23 | 2.3819 | ||
Chase a Crooked Shadow | Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr. | 7.1 | 1958-01-16 | 1.3869 | ||
Asylum | Walter | 6.124 | 1972-11-17 | 2.2621 | ||
The Dam Busters | Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C. | 6.9 | 1955-05-16 | 1.7511 | ||
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men | Robin Hood | 6.2 | 1952-05-26 | 2.1033 | ||
Operation Crossbow | Wing Cmdr. Kendall | 6.7 | 1965-04-01 | 1.9392 | ||
Never Let Go | John Cummings | 6.5 | 1960-06-02 | 0.9717 | ||
The Virgin Queen | Sir Walter Raleigh | 6.929 | 1955-07-22 | 1.6068 | ||
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst | Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans | 7.3 | 1957-04-02 | 1.0432 |