Richard Todd
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.731 |
Birthday | 1919-06-11 |
Place of Birth | Dublin, Ireland |
Also Known As | Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd, Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd, OBE, |
1978
The Big Sleep
5.9/85
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.
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The Big Sleep
1950
Stage Fright
6.8/325
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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Stage Fright
1958
Chase a Crooked Shadow
7/35
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
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Chase a Crooked Shadow
1972
Asylum
6/167
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 patient...
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Asylum
1955
The Dam Busters
6.876/141
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 S...
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The Dam Busters
1952
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
6.1/63
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...
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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1965
Operation Crossbow
6.7/105
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between Ge...
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Operation Crossbow
1960
Never Let Go
6.5/26
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 org...
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Never Let Go
1955
The Virgin Queen
7.1/26
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.
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The Virgin Queen
1957
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
7.2/10
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batter...
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
1955
A Man Called Peter
6.4/15
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 whe...
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A Man Called Peter
1956
D-Day the Sixth of June
5.3/26
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
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D-Day the Sixth of June
1953
The Sword and the Rose
6.4/21
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...
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The Sword and the Rose
1983
House of the Long Shadows
6.3/99
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, upon...
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House of the Long Shadows
1970
Dorian Gray
5.243/37
London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterious portrait of himself gradually reveals his moral...
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Dorian Gray
1961
The Long and the Short and the Tall
7.1/23
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 r...
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The Long and the Short and the Tall
1951
Lightning Strikes Twice
5.7/18
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 wi...
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Lightning Strikes Twice
1949
The Hasty Heart
6.7/14
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 bu...
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The Hasty Heart
1952
Venetian Bird
5.9/15
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...
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Venetian Bird
1963
Death Drums Along the River
5.094/16
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.
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Death Drums Along the River
1958
Intent to Kill
5.2/4
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...
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Intent to Kill
1937
Good Morning, Boys!
6.8/9
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 fine cast...
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Good Morning, Boys!
1949
For Them That Trespass
5.2/11
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 begi...
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For Them That Trespass
1953
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
5.1/13
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becom...
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1938
A Yank at Oxford
6.7/10
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
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A Yank at Oxford
1957
Saint Joan
6.5/22
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 battle...
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Saint Joan
1965
Coast of Skeletons
5.7/10
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 having...
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Coast of Skeletons
1979
Home Before Midnight
5.4/11
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take...
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Home Before Midnight
1956
Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
5.4/8
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 Lo...
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Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
1954
The Secrets of the Bed
1/1
Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by b...
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The Secrets of the Bed
1961
The Hellions
6.1/4
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 Transva...
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The Hellions
1967
The Love-Ins
3.8/4
A college professor falls in with the counterculture crowd in San Francisco after resigning from his position in solidarity with two expelled hippie s...
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The Love-Ins
1949
The Interrupted Journey
6/16
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, h...
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The Interrupted Journey
1952
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
4.7/3
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
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24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1962
The Boys
7.75/4
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...
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The Boys
1961
Don't Bother to Knock
5.1/5
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 attached as a...
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Don't Bother to Knock
1965
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
4.8/4
Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.
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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1950
Portrait of Clare
6.5/2
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.
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Portrait of Clare
1959
Danger Within
6.2/15
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 mysteriou...
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Danger Within
1953
Wuthering Heights
0/0
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting reveng...
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Wuthering Heights
1968
Subterfuge
4.7/3
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 a...
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Subterfuge
1952
Elstree Story
0/0
Starting in 1927 when the first film, The White Sheik, was made there, Elstree Story features excerpts from over forty productions – including Hitchco...
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Elstree Story
1963
The Very Edge
5.6/9
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. Her...
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The Very Edge
1977
No. 1 of the Secret Service
3.8/11
No. 1 is fearless, irrestible, and licensed to kill. No. 1 is assigned to capture a madman killing international financiers. Before getting the bad gu...
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No. 1 of the Secret Service
1962
The Longest Day
7.576/932
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the d...
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The Longest Day
1975
Bloodbath
4.1/7
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 th...
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Bloodbath
1937
The Gap
0/0
A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.
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The Gap
1959
Stars Meet in Moscow
0/0
Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign acto...
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Stars Meet in Moscow
1985
Jenny's War
6/1
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...
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Jenny's War
1992
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
5.2/12
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 fabl...
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Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
1996
No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
6/1
Biography of Marlene Dietrich using interviews, film clips and rare footage of the actress, including her own home movies.
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No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich
1976
Um Homem e o Cinema
0/0
Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.
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Um Homem e o Cinema
1951
Flesh and Blood
0/0
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 con...
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Flesh and Blood
1988
Olympus Force: The Key
4/1
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.
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Olympus Force: The Key
1992
Beautiful Lies
0/0
August 1941: HG Wells confronts George Orwell, who has just published a scathing attack on him. As wartime London endures the Blitz, they speculate on...
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Beautiful Lies
1958
The Naked Earth
0/0
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 w...
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The Naked Earth
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
7.7/6
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me...
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1982
Doctor Who: Kinda
7.5/2
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 rac...
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Doctor Who: Kinda
1974
The Next Scream You Hear
4/1
The police receive an anonymous tip that Bernard Peel has murdered his wife, Jennifer. Peel declares his innocence, but there is a substantial amount...
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The Next Scream You Hear
1952
The Riddle of Robin Hood
0/0
Promotional film for The Story of Robin Hood, featuring Walt Disney and production personnel; released in 1952.
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