Richard Todd
Popularity:0.51
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1919-06-11
Place of Birth:Dublin, Ireland
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Also Known As:Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd, Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd, OBE

The Big Sleep (1978)
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.

Stage Fright (1950)
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.

Asylum (1972)
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...

The Dam Busters (1955)
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...

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
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...

Operation Crossbow (1965)
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between...

Never Let Go (1960)
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic...

The Virgin Queen (1955)
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957)
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore...

A Man Called Peter (1955)
Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him...

D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.

The Sword and the Rose (1953)
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She...

House of the Long Shadows (1983)
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,...

Dorian Gray (1970)
London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterious portrait of himself gradually reveals his...

The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)
Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the...

Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his...

The Hasty Heart (1949)
In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home...

Venetian Bird (1952)
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect...

Death Drums Along the River (1963)
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.

Intent to Kill (1958)
While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on...

Good Morning, Boys! (1937)
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a...

For Them That Trespass (1949)
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue (1953)
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually...

A Yank at Oxford (1938)
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.

Saint Joan (1957)
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many...

Coast of Skeletons (1965)
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...

Home Before Midnight (1979)
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents...

Marie-Antoinette Queen of France (1956)
While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King...

The Secrets of the Bed (1954)
Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by...

The Hellions (1961)
Luke Billings (Lionel Jeffries) and his family have a problem with the new police sergeant Sam Hargis (Richard Todd) so they take over a small...

The Love-Ins (1967)
A college professor falls in with the counterculture crowd in San Francisco after resigning from his position in solidarity with two expelled hippie...

The Interrupted Journey (1949)
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife,...

24 Hours of a Woman's Life (1952)
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.

The Boys (1962)
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...

Don't Bother to Knock (1961)
An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address...

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)
Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.

Portrait of Clare (1950)
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.

Danger Within (1959)
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a...

Wuthering Heights (1953)
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting...

Subterfuge (1968)
A young wife is becoming very distraught over the fact that her husband, a secret service "spy" for England, has changed his mind about transferring...

Elstree Story (1952)
Starting in 1927 when the first film, The White Sheik, was made there, Elstree Story features excerpts from over forty productions – including...

The Very Edge (1963)
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....

No. 1 of the Secret Service (1977)
No. 1 is fearless, irrestible, and licensed to kill. No. 1 is assigned to capture a madman killing international financiers. Before getting the bad...

The Longest Day (1962)
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the...

Bloodbath (1975)
Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to separate fantasy and reality. This isn't helped by...

The Gap (1937)
A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

Stars Meet in Moscow (1959)
Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign...

Jenny's War (1985)
This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help...

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992)
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...

No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich (1996)
Biography of Marlene Dietrich using interviews, film clips and rare footage of the actress, including her own home movies.

Um Homem e o Cinema (1976)
Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

Flesh and Blood (1951)
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various...

Olympus Force: The Key (1988)
Olympian gods watch the Earth and resolve to fight a group of terrorists who stole a diskette containing a secret that can destroy the world.

Beautiful Lies (1992)
August 1941: HG Wells confronts George Orwell, who has just published a scathing attack on him. As wartime London endures the Blitz, they speculate...

The Naked Earth (1958)
Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested...

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such...

Doctor Who: Kinda (1982)
The TARDIS lands on the idyllic jungle world of Deva Loka, which is being surveyed for possible Earth colonisation. Deva Loka is already home to a...

The Next Scream You Hear (1974)
The police receive an anonymous tip that Bernard Peel has murdered his wife, Jennifer. Peel declares his innocence, but there is a substantial amount...

The Riddle of Robin Hood (1952)
Promotional film for The Story of Robin Hood, featuring Walt Disney and production personnel; released in 1952.

Midsomer Murders (1997)
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...

Doctor Who (1963)
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...

Silent Witness (1996)
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000)
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...

Virtual Murder (1992)
John Cornelius (called JC) is a university don who also works for his city police force as a consultant psychologist. Samantha Valentine is his...

Boy Dominic (1974)
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...

Thriller (1973)
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a...

The Last Place on Earth (1985)
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...

The Royal (2003)
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.

Heartbeat (1992)
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Jenny's War (1985)
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...

Murder, She Wrote (1984)
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Elstree: Britain's Hollywood (1989)
Two-part documentary celebrating the 75th anniversary of what was once the biggest film production centre outside Hollywood: Elstree.