Richard Todd

Richard Todd

Birthday: 1919-06-11

Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland

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.

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The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep

Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a ri...

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Stage Fright
Stage Fright

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the h...

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Chase a Crooked Shadow
Chase a Crooked Shadow

A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dea...

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Asylum
Asylum

A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four ...

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The Dam Busters
The Dam Busters

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...

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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's ...

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Operation Crossbow
Operation Crossbow

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and ...

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Never Let Go
Never Let Go

John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods...

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The Virgin Queen
The Virgin Queen

Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing fo...

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

While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the ...

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A Man Called Peter
A Man Called Peter

Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but...

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D-Day the Sixth of June
D-Day the Sixth of June

En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances ...

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The Sword and the Rose
The Sword and the Rose

Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons,...

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House of the Long Shadows
House of the Long Shadows

An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel l...

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Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray

London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterio...

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The Long and the Short and the Tall
The Long and the Short and the Tall

Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle n...

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Lightning Strikes Twice
Lightning Strikes Twice

Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranc...

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The Hasty Heart
The Hasty Heart

In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in d...

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Venetian Bird
Venetian Bird

Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Sho...

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Death Drums Along the River
Death Drums Along the River

A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river....

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Intent to Kill
Intent to Kill

While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal...

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Good Morning, Boys!
Good Morning, Boys!

Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s s...

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For Them That Trespass
For Them That Trespass

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examini...

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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots...

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A Yank at Oxford
A Yank at Oxford

A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win...

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Saint Joan
Saint Joan

In 1456, French King Charles VII recalls the story of how he met the 17-year-old peasant girl Joan o...

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Coast of Skeletons
Coast of Skeletons

A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double ...

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Home Before Midnight
Home Before Midnight

A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to...

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Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
Marie-Antoinette Queen of France

While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel d...

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The Secrets of the Bed
The Secrets of the Bed

Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background t...

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The Hellions
The Hellions

Luke Billings (Lionel Jeffries) and his family have a problem with the new police sergeant Sam Hargi...

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The Love-Ins
The Love-Ins

A college professor falls in with the counterculture crowd in San Francisco after resigning from his...

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The Interrupted Journey
The Interrupted Journey

When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking...

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24 Hours of a Woman's Life
24 Hours of a Woman's Life

A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from h...

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The Boys
The Boys

A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. ...

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Don't Bother to Knock
Don't Bother to Knock

An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and ma...

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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an...

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Portrait of Clare
Portrait of Clare

The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barri...

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Danger Within
Danger Within

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers f...

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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a we...

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Subterfuge
Subterfuge

A young wife is becoming very distraught over the fact that her husband, a secret service "spy" for ...

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Elstree Story
Elstree Story

Starting in 1927 when the first film, The White Sheik, was made there, Elstree Story features excerp...

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The Very Edge
The Very Edge

Tracey Lawrence is assautled in her home and is so affected by the traumatic event she now finds all...

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No. 1 of the Secret Service
No. 1 of the Secret Service

No. 1 is fearless, irrestible, and licensed to kill. No. 1 is assigned to capture a madman killing i...

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The Longest Day
The Longest Day

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...

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The Sky is Falling
The Sky is Falling

Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to sep...

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The Gap
The Gap

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army....

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Stars Meet in Moscow
Stars Meet in Moscow

Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its...

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Jenny's War
Jenny's War

This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who wa...

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Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

King Edward asks Sherlock Holmes to perform one more task before his retirement: to safeguard the St...

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No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich

Biography of Marlene Dietrich using interviews, film clips and rare footage of the actress, includin...

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Um Homem e o Cinema
Um Homem e o Cinema

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker....

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Flesh and Blood
Flesh and Blood

Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of...

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Olympus Force: The Key
Olympus Force: The Key

Olympian gods watch the Earth and resolve to fight a group of terrorists who stole a diskette contai...

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Beautiful Lies
Beautiful Lies

August 1941: HG Wells confronts George Orwell, who has just published a scathing attack on him. As w...

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The Naked Earth
The Naked Earth

Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives ...

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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O...

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Doctor Who: Kinda
Doctor Who: Kinda

The TARDIS lands on the idyllic jungle world of Deva Loka, which is being surveyed for possible Eart...

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The Next Scream You Hear
The Next Scream You Hear

The police receive an anonymous tip that Bernard Peel has murdered his wife, Jennifer. Peel declares...

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The Riddle of Robin Hood
The Riddle of Robin Hood

Promotional film for The Story of Robin Hood, featuring Walt Disney and production personnel; releas...

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