Personal Info
Birth date
1919-06-11 (106 Years)
Day of death
2009-12-03
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Dublin, Ireland
Also known as
Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd
Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd, OBE
Richard Todd
Biography
Richard Todd OBE (11 June 1919 – 3 December 2009) was an Irish-born British stage and film actor and soldier. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Todd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Overview:
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.Midsomer Murders
7.5
Overview:
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.Doctor Who
7.9
Overview:
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.Silent Witness
7.6
Overview:
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.Heartbeat
7
Overview:
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.Thriller
6.6
Overview:
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
6.1
Overview:
A modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who is aided in cases by the ghost of his deceased partner Marty Hopkirk.The Last Place on Earth
6.8
Overview:
The Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven part serial, written by Trevor Griffiths based on the book Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford. The book is an exploration of the expeditions of Captain Robert F. Scott and his Norwegian rival in polar exploration, Roald Amundsen in their attempts to reach the South Pole. The series ran for seven episodes and starred a wide range of UK and Norwegian character actors as well as featuring some famous names, such as Max von Sydow, Richard Wilson, Sylvester McCoy and Pat Roach. It also featured performances early in their careers by Bill Nighy and Hugh Grant. Subsequently Huntford's book was republished under the same name. The book put forth the point of view that Amundsen's success in reaching the South Pole was abetted by much superior planning, whereas errors by Scott ultimately resulted in the death of him and his companions.Boy Dominic
8
Overview:
The adventures of a 12-year-old boy's struggles in Victorian Yorkshire, after his father, Captain Charles Bulman, is lost, presumed drowned off the coast of Africa.Jenny's War
5.5
Overview:
Jenny's War is a 1985 war television serial set during World War II, made by HTV in association with Columbia Pictures. It is directed by and written by Steve Gethers. The screenplay is based on the novel with the same name of Jack Stoneley. In the UK it was shown as four 50 minute episodes on the ITV network, while in the United States it was syndicated under the Operation Prime Time banner by MCA TV. The serial stars Dyan Cannon, Nigel Hawthorne, Robert Hardy Christopher Cazenove and Hugh Grant, and is about a mother, Jenny Baines, who searches for her son Peter, who was shot down over Germany, and who she believes is still alive.Elstree: Britain's Hollywood
NYR
Overview:
Two-part documentary celebrating the 75th anniversary of what was once the biggest film production centre outside Hollywood: Elstree.The Longest Day
7.583
Overview:
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"The Very Edge
5.6
Overview:
Tracey Lawrence is assautled in her home and is so affected by the traumatic event she now finds all men totally repulsive, including her husband. Her attitude does not change with time, and to make matters worse her husband has got romantically involved with his secretary. Also, the police still have not tracked down Tracey's attacker and there is no guarantee that she is safe.Virtual Murder
6.5
Overview:
John Cornelius (called JC) is a university don who also works for his city police force as a consultant psychologist. Samantha Valentine is his offbeat personal assistant and lover, while Inspector Cadogan is their police contact and Professor Owen Griffiths is Cornelius's head of department.The Royal
7.6
Overview:
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.The Dam Busters
6.9
Overview:
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.Asylum
6
Overview:
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.Operation Crossbow
6.745
Overview:
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.Stage Fright
6.802
Overview:
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.House of the Long Shadows
6.3
Overview:
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has several rather odd inhabitants.The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
6.1
Overview:
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.The Big Sleep
5.906
Overview:
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.Coast of Skeletons
5.7
Overview:
A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.The Boys
7.8
Overview:
A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.No. 1 of the Secret Service
3.583
Overview:
No. 1 is fearless, irrestible, and licensed to kill. No. 1 is assigned to capture a madman killing international financiers. Before getting the bad guy, No. 1 encounters mercenaries from the evil organization K.R.A.S.H. (Killing, Rape, Arson, Slaughter, and Hit).Death Drums Along the River
5.1
Overview:
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
5.231
Overview:
King Edward asks Sherlock Holmes to perform one more task before his retirement: to safeguard the Star of Africa on a trip to Cape Town. Soon the fabled jewel is stolen and several people end up being murdered.Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
7.2
Overview:
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.Acting
2003The Royal (1 Episode) as Hugh Hirst
2000Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (1 Episode) as Unknown
1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as Charles Edmonton
1996No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich as Unknown
1996Silent Witness (1 Episode) as Unknown
1992Beautiful Lies as H.G. Wells
1992Virtual Murder (1 Episode) as Unknown
1992Heartbeat (1 Episode) as Harold Beecham
1992Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls as Lord Roberts
1991Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self (archive footage)
1989Elstree: Britain's Hollywood (1 Episode) as Self
1988Olympus Force: The Key as Unknown
1985Jenny's War as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
1985Jenny's War (4 Episodes) as Gen. Benjamin Cutler
1985The Last Place on Earth (7 Episodes) as Mr. Barnes
1984Murder, She Wrote (1 Episode) as Col. Alec Scofield
1983House of the Long Shadows as Sam Allyson
1982Doctor Who: Kinda as Sanders
1979Home Before Midnight as Geoffrey Steele
1978The Big Sleep as Commander Barker
1977No. 1 of the Secret Service as Arthur Loveday
1976Um Homem e o Cinema as Self (archive footage)
1975Bloodbath as Terence
1974The Next Scream You Hear as George Tulliver
1974Boy Dominic (13 Episodes) as Capt. Richard Bulman
1973Thriller (1 Episode) as George Tulliver
1972Asylum as Walter
1970Dorian Gray as Basil Hallward
1968Subterfuge as Col. Victor Redmayne
1967The Love-Ins as Dr. Jonathan Barnett
1965The Battle of the Villa Fiorita as Darrell
1965Operation Crossbow as Wing Cmdr. Kendall
1965Coast of Skeletons as Harry Sanders
1963Death Drums Along the River as Inspector Harry Sanders
1963Doctor Who (1 Episode) as Sanders
1963The Very Edge as Geoffrey Lawrence
1962The Longest Day as Maj. John Howard
1962The Boys as Victor Webster
1961The Hellions as Sam Hargis
1961Don't Bother to Knock as Bill Ferguson
1961The Long and the Short and the Tall as Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
1960Never Let Go as John Cummings
1959Stars Meet in Moscow as Unknown
1959Danger Within as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
1958Intent to Kill as Dr. Bob McLaurin
1958The Naked Earth as Danny
1958Chase a Crooked Shadow as Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
1957Saint Joan as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
1957Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst as Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
1956D-Day the Sixth of June as Lt. Col. John Wynter
1956Marie-Antoinette Queen of France as Comte Axel von Fersen
1955The Virgin Queen as Sir Walter Raleigh
1955The Dam Busters as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
1955A Man Called Peter as The Rev. Peter Marshall
1954The Secrets of the Bed as Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
1953Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff
1953Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue as Rob Roy MacGregor
1953The Sword and the Rose as Charles Brandon
1952Venetian Bird as Edward Mercer
195224 Hours of a Woman's Life as the young man
1952The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men as Robin Hood
1952Elstree Story as Himself
1952The Riddle of Robin Hood as Himself
1951Lightning Strikes Twice as Richard Trevelyan
1951Flesh and Blood as Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
1950Portrait of Clare as Robert Hart
1950Stage Fright as Jonathan Cooper
1949The Interrupted Journey as John North
1949The Hasty Heart as Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
1949For Them That Trespass as Herbert Edward Logan
1938A Yank at Oxford as Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
1937The Gap as Orderly (uncredited)
1937Good Morning, Boys! as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)