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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

	Good Morning, Boys! Extra (uncredited)	1937
	Hasty Heart Lachie	1949
	Interrupted Journey John North	1949
	Stage Fright Jonathan Cooper	1950
	Flesh & Blood Charles Cameron / Sutherland	1951
	Portrait of Clare Robert Hart	1951
	Lightning Strikes Twice Richard Trevelyan	1951
	Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men Robin Hood	1952
	24 Hours of a Woman's Life The Young Man	1952
	Venetian Bird Edward Mercer	1953
	Sword and the Rose Charles Brandon	1953
	Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue Rob Roy MacGregor	1954
	Man Called Peter Peter Marshall	1955
	Marie Antoinette	1955
	Dam Busters Wing Cmdr. Guy Gibson	1955
	Virgin Queen Sir Walter Raleigh	1955
	D-Day, the Sixth of June	1956
	Saint Joan Dunois	1957
	Yangtse Incident Lt. Cmdr. Kerans, RN	1957
	Intent to Kill	1958
	Naked Earth Danny	1958
	Chase a Crooked Shadow	1958
	Danger Within Lt. Col. David Baird, M.C.	1959
	Never Let Go John Cummings	1960
	Long and the Short and the Tall Sergeant Mitchem	1961
	Why Bother to Knock Bill	1961
	Hellions Sam Hargis	1961
	Crime Does Not Pay	1962
	Boys Victor Webster	1962
	Longest Day Major John Howard	1962
	Sanders Inspector Harry Sanders	1963
	Very Edge Geoffrey Lawrence	1963
	Coast of Skeletons	1964
	Affair at Villa Fiorita	1965
	Battle of the Villa Fiorita Darrell	1965
	Operation Crossbow Wing Commander Kendall	1965
	Love-Ins	1967
	Subterfuge Redmayne	1968
	Dorian Gray Basil	1970
	No. 1 of the Secret Service Loveday	1970
	Asylum Walter	1972
	Big Sleep Commander Stephen Barker	1978
	House of the Long Shadows Sam Allyson	1983
	Jenny's War General Benjamin Cutler	1985
	Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls Lord Roberts	1991

	BBC Plays Edmund Gurney And The	67
	ITV Television Playhouse The Man Who Could Find Things Stephen Mason	01/08/1960
	ITV Play of the Week Carrington V.C. Major Charles "Copper" Carrington	01/26/1960
	This is Your Life Richard Todd Subject	03/07/1960
	Movie Quiz Episode	06/25/1973
	Thriller The Next Scream You Hear George Tulliver	07/06/1974
	Doctor Who Kinda Sanders	02/01/1982
	Movie Memories Episode #2.3	03/10/1982
	Murder, She Wrote Appointment in Athens Col Alec Scofield	09/24/1989
	Silent Witness The World Cruise Professor Newman	12/11/2000
	Midsomer Murders Birds of Prey Charles Edmonton	01/31/2003

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