Richard Todd

Wednesday, 11th June 1919 - Thursday, 3rd December 2009

Irish actor who reenacted his own wartime exploits in the 1962 film The Longest Day and was author Ian Fleming’s first choice to play James Bond. A scheduling conflict gave the role to Sean Connery. Todd was nominated for an Oscar for the 1949 film The Hasty Heart (costarring Ronald Reagan) but lost to Broderick Crawford for Todd also starred as US Senate chaplain Peter Marshall in A Man Called Peter (1954). He died of cancer in Lincolnshire, in central England, on December 3, 2009.
~Life in Legacy

	Hasty Heart as Lachie	1949
	Interrupted Journey as John North	1949
	Stage Fright as Jonathan Cooper	1950
	Flesh & Blood	1951
	Portrait of Clare as Robert Hart	1951
	Lightning Strikes Twice as Richard Trevelyan	1951
	Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men as Robin Hood	1952
	Affair in Monte Carlo as The Young Man	1953
	Assassin as Edward Mercer	1953
	Sword and the Rose as Charles Brandon	1953
	Dam Busters as Wing Cmdr. Guy Gibson	1954
	Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue as Rob Roy MacGregor	1954
	Man Called Peter as Peter Marshall	1955
	Marie Antoinette	1955
	Virgin Queen as Sir Walter Raleigh	1955
	D-Day, the Sixth of June	1956
	Saint Joan as Dunois	1957
	Yangtse Incident as Lt. Cmdr. Kerans	1957
	Intent to Kill	1958
	Naked Earth as Danny	1958
	Chase a Crooked Shadow	1958
	Danger Within	1959
	Never Let Go	1960
	Long and the Short and the Tall as Sergeant Mitchem	1960
	Why Bother to Knock as Bill	1961
	Hellions as Sam Hargis	1961
	Crime Does Not Pay	1962
	Boys	1962
	Longest Day as Major John Howard	1962
	Very Edge	1962
	Sanders as Inspector Harry Sanders	1963
	Coast of Skeletons	1964
	Affair at Villa Fiorita	1965
	Battle of the Villa Fiorita as Darrell	1965
	Operation Crossbow as Wing Cmdr. Kendall	1965
	Love-Ins	1967
	Subterfuge as Redmayne	1968
	Dorian Gray as Basil	1970
	No. 1 of the Secret Service as Loveday	1970
	Asylum as Walter	1972
	Big Sleep as Commander Barker	1978
	House of the Long Shadows as Sam Allyson	1983
	Jenny's War as General Benjamin Cutler	1985
	Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls as Lord Roberts	1991

	BBC Plays Edmund Gurney And The	67
	ITV Television Playhouse The Man Who Could Find Things as Stephen Mason	01/08/1960
	ITV Play of the Week Carrington V.C. as Major Charles "Copper" Carrington	01/26/1960
	This is Your Life Richard Todd as Subject	03/07/1960
	Doctor Who Kinda as Sanders	02/01/1982
	Murder, She Wrote Appointment in Athens as Col Alec Scofield	09/24/1989
	Midsomer Murders Birds of Prey as Charles Edmonton	01/31/2003

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