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Richard Todd

Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd OBE was an Irish-British actor and will be best remembered for the films in which he played a wide assortment of clean-cut British heroes. He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1993 Queen's New Year Honours List for his services to drama.

English
Filmography

The Dam Busters

1955
as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.

Saint Joan

1957
as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans

The Love-Ins

1967
as Dr. Jonathan Barnett

The Longest Day

1962
as Maj. John Howard

Never Let Go

1960
as John Cummings

Intent to Kill

1958
as Dr. Bob McLaurin

No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich

1996

Marie-Antoinette Queen of France

1956
as Comte Axel von Fersen

Home Before Midnight

1979
as Geoffrey Steele

Death Drums Along the River

1963
as Inspector Harry Sanders

Elstree Story

1952
as Himself

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

1965
as Darrell

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

1952
as Robin Hood

The Sword and the Rose

1953
as Charles Brandon

Danger Within

1959
as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird

House of the Long Shadows

1983
as Sam Allyson

Operation Crossbow

1965
as Wing Cmdr. Kendall

Subterfuge

1968
as Col. Victor Redmayne

The Interrupted Journey

1949
as John North

Jenny's War

1985
as Gen. Benjamin Cutler

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

1992
as Lord Roberts

For Them That Trespass

1949
as Herbert Edward Logan

The Long and the Short and the Tall

1961
as Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem

Venetian Bird

1952
as Edward Mercer

Lightning Strikes Twice

1951
as Richard Trevelyan

The Hasty Heart

1949
as Cpl. Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan - the Scot

24 Hours of a Woman's Life

1952
as the young man

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

1957
as Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans

A Man Called Peter

1955
as The Rev. Peter Marshall

The Hellions

1961
as Sam Hargis

D-Day the Sixth of June

1956
as Lt. Col. John Wynter

Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue

1954
as Rob Roy MacGregor

Dorian Gray

1970
as Basil Hallward

Coast of Skeletons

1964
as Inspector Harry Sanders

Portrait of Clare

1950
as Robert Hart

Asylum

1972
as Walter

No. 1 of the Secret Service

1977
as Arthur Loveday

Chase a Crooked Shadow

1958
as Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.

90 Days

1985
as Government Official

Stage Fright

1950
as Jonathan Cooper

Inside the Fear Factory

2003
as Walter / Asylum (archive footage)

The Virgin Queen

1955
as Sir Walter Raleigh

The Very Edge

1963
as Geoffrey Lawrence

The Big Sleep

1978
as Commander Barker

Guest Star

Episode Midsomer Murders
Birds of Prey 		2003
Episode Holby City
We'll Meet Again 		2004
Episode Murder, She Wrote
Appointment in Athens 		1989
Episode Doctor Who
Kinda (1) 		1982
Episode Doctor Who
Kinda (2) 		1982
Episode Silent Witness
The World Cruise (1) 		2000
Episode Doctor Who
Kinda (3) 		1982
Episode Silent Witness
The World Cruise (2) 		2000
Episode Doctor Who
Kinda (4) 		1982
Episode The Kenny Everett Television Show
Show 6 		1983