Richard Todd

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Richard Todd OBE (11 June 1919 – 3 December 2009) was an Irish-born British stage and film actor and soldier.

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Known For

The Longest Day

Maj. John Howard

Doctor Who

Sanders

Murder, She Wrote

Col. Alec Scofield

Stage Fright

Jonathan Cooper

Midsomer Murders

Charles Edmonton

Asylum

Walter

The Dam Busters

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

House of the Long Shadows

Sam Allyson

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2003	The Royal TV	Hugh Hirst
2000	Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) TV	Self
1997	Midsomer Murders TV	Charles Edmonton
1996	No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich MOVIE	Self
1996	Silent Witness TV	Self
1992	Beautiful Lies MOVIE	H.G. Wells
1992	Virtual Murder TV	Self
1992	Heartbeat TV	Harold Beecham
1992	Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls MOVIE	Lord Roberts
1991	Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1989	Elstree: Britain's Hollywood TV	Self
1988	Olympus Force: The Key MOVIE	Lord Wisden
1985	Jenny's War MOVIE	Gen. Benjamin Cutler
1985	Jenny's War TV	Gen. Benjamin Cutler
1985	The Last Place on Earth TV	Mr. Barnes
1984	Murder, She Wrote TV	Col. Alec Scofield
1983	House of the Long Shadows MOVIE	Sam Allyson
1982	Doctor Who: Kinda MOVIE	Sanders
1979	Home Before Midnight MOVIE	Geoffrey Steele
1978	The Big Sleep MOVIE	Commander Barker
1977	No. 1 of the Secret Service MOVIE	Arthur Loveday
1976	Um Homem e o Cinema MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1975	The Sky is Falling MOVIE	Terence
1974	The Next Scream You Hear MOVIE	George Tulliver
1974	Boy Dominic TV	Capt. Richard Bulman
1973	Thriller TV	George Tulliver
1972	Asylum MOVIE	Walter
1970	Dorian Gray MOVIE	Basil Hallward
1968	Subterfuge MOVIE	Col. Victor Redmayne
1967	The Love-Ins MOVIE	Dr. Jonathan Barnett
1965	The Battle of the Villa Fiorita MOVIE	Darrell
1965	Operation Crossbow MOVIE	Wing Cmdr. Kendall
1965	Coast of Skeletons MOVIE	Harry Sanders
1964	Theatre 625 TV	Edmund Gurney
1963	Death Drums Along the River MOVIE	Inspector Harry Sanders
1963	Doctor Who TV	Sanders
1963	The Very Edge MOVIE	Geoffrey Lawrence
1962	The Longest Day MOVIE	Maj. John Howard
1962	The Boys MOVIE	Victor Webster
1961	The Hellions MOVIE	Sam Hargis
1961	Don't Bother to Knock MOVIE	Bill Ferguson
1961	The Long and the Short and the Tall MOVIE	Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem
1960	Never Let Go MOVIE	John Cummings
1959	Stars Meet in Moscow MOVIE	Self
1959	Danger Within MOVIE	Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
1958	Intent to Kill MOVIE	Dr. Bob McLaurin
1958	The Naked Earth MOVIE	Danny
1958	Chase a Crooked Shadow MOVIE	Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.
1957	Saint Joan MOVIE	Dunois, Bastard of Orleans
1957	Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst MOVIE	Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans
1956	D-Day the Sixth of June MOVIE	Lt. Col. John Wynter
1956	Marie-Antoinette Queen of France MOVIE	Comte Axel von Fersen
1955	The Virgin Queen MOVIE	Sir Walter Raleigh
1955	The Dam Busters MOVIE	Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.
1955	A Man Called Peter MOVIE	The Rev. Peter Marshall
1954	The Secrets of the Bed MOVIE	Captain Davidson (segment "Billet de logement, Le")
1953	Wuthering Heights MOVIE	Heathcliff
1953	Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue MOVIE	Rob Roy MacGregor
1953	The Sword and the Rose MOVIE	Charles Brandon
1952	Venetian Bird MOVIE	Edward Mercer
1952	24 Hours of a Woman's Life MOVIE	the young man
1952	The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men MOVIE	Robin Hood
1952	Elstree Story MOVIE	Himself
1952	The Riddle of Robin Hood MOVIE	Himself
1951	Lightning Strikes Twice MOVIE	Richard Trevelyan
1951	Flesh and Blood MOVIE	Charles Cameron/Charles Cameron Sutherland
1950	Portrait of Clare MOVIE	Robert Hart
1950	Stage Fright MOVIE	Jonathan Cooper
1949	The Interrupted Journey MOVIE	John North
1949	The Hasty Heart MOVIE	Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan
1949	For Them That Trespass MOVIE	Herbert Edward Logan
1938	A Yank at Oxford MOVIE	Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)
1937	The Gap MOVIE	Orderly (uncredited)
1937	Good Morning, Boys! MOVIE	Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)

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