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

• British Film Forever
• The Royal — Hugh Hirst
• Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
• Midsomer Murders — Charles Edmonton
• 1996No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
• Silent Witness
• 1992Beautiful Lies — H.G. Wells
• Heartbeat — Harold Beecham
• 1992Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls — Lord Roberts
• Virtual Murder — Judge Rawcliffe
• 1988Olympus Force: The Key — Lord Wisden
• 1985Jenny's War — Gen. Benjamin Cutler
• Jenny's War — Gen. Benjamin Cutler
• The Last Place on Earth — Mr. Barnes
• Murder, She Wrote — Alec Scofield
• 1983House of the Long Shadows — Sam Allyson
• 1982Doctor Who: Kinda — Sanders
• 1979Home Before Midnight — Geoffrey Steele
• 1978The Big Sleep — Commander Barker
• 1977No. 1 of the Secret Service — Arthur Loveday
• 1975The Sky is Falling — Terence
• Boy Dominic — Capt. Richard Bulman
• 1974The Next Scream You Hear — George Tulliver
• Thriller — George Tulliver
• 1972Asylum — Walter
• 1970Dorian Gray — Basil Hallward
• 1968Subterfuge — Col. Victor Redmayne
• 1967The Love-Ins — Dr. Jonathan Barnett
• 1965Coast of Skeletons — Harry Sanders
• 1965Operation Crossbow — Wing Cmdr. Kendall
• 1965The Battle of the Villa Fiorita — Darrell
• Theatre 625 — Edmund Gurney
• 1963Death Drums Along the River — Inspector Harry Sanders
• Doctor Who — Sanders
• 1963The Very Edge — Geoffrey Lawrence
• 1962The Boys — Victor Webster
• 1962The Longest Day — Maj. John Howard
• 1961Don't Bother to Knock — Bill Ferguson
• 1961The Hellions — Sam Hargis
• 1961The Long and the Short and the Tall — Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
• 1960Never Let Go — John Cummings
• 1959Danger Within — Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
• 1958Chase a Crooked Shadow — Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
• 1958Intent to Kill — Dr. Bob McLaurin
• 1958The Naked Earth — Danny
• 1957Saint Joan — Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
• 1957Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst — Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
• 1956D-Day the Sixth of June — Lt. Col. John Wynter
• 1956Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France — Comte Axel von Fersen
• 1955A Man Called Peter — The Rev. Peter Marshall
• 1955The Dam Busters — Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
• 1955The Virgin Queen — Sir Walter Raleigh
• 1954The Secrets of the Bed — Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
• 1953Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue — Rob Roy MacGregor
• 1953The Sword and the Rose — Charles Brandon
• 1953Wuthering Heights — Heathcliff
• 195224 Hours of a Woman's Life — the young man
• 1952The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men — Robin Hood
• 1952Venetian Bird — Edward Mercer
• 1951Flesh and Blood — Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
• 1951Lightning Strikes Twice — Richard Trevelyan
• 1950Portrait of Clare — Robert Hart
• 1950Stage Fright — Jonathan Cooper
• 1949For Them That Trespass — Herbert Edward Logan
• 1949The Hasty Heart — Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
• 1949The Interrupted Journey — John North
• 1938A Yank at Oxford — Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
• 1937Good Morning, Boys! — Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)
• 1937The Gap — Orderly (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2000Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance — Self
• 1991Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker — Self (archive footage)
• Elstree: Britain's Hollywood — Self
• 1976Um Homem e o Cinema — Self (archive footage)
• 1959Stars Meet in Moscow — Self
• 1952Elstree Story — Himself
• 1952The Riddle of Robin Hood — Self