Richard Todd Movies
Born in Ireland, Richard Todd spent a few of his childhood years in India, where his father served as an army physician. Later his family relocated to West Devon, England. Todd trained for a potential military career at Sandhurst before inaugurating his acting training at the Italia Conta school. He helped organize the Dundee Repertory Theatre, then spent six years' service in World War II,... (read more) first as an officer in the Yorkshire Light Infantry, then as a paratrooper with the 6th Airbourne. Todd was among those who parachuted into France during the D-Day Invasion of 1944; eighteen years later, he played a cameo in Darryl F. Zanuck's D-Day recreation The Longest Day (1946). After the war, he rejoined the Dundee rep, then made his West End debut as The Scot, the ill-tempered, dying protagonist of John Patrick's play The Hasty Heart. In 1949, Todd began his film career when he was tapped to recreate his Hasty Heart characterization before the cameras; the performance would earn him an Academy Award nomination. Highlights of Todd's 1950s film output include his portrayal of Marlene Dietrich's castaway beau in Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950), his swashbuckling heroics in Disney's The Story of Robin Hood (1952), The Sword and the Rose (1953) and Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue (1954), his sensitive performance as "Chaplain of the Presidents" Peter Marshall in A Man Called Peter, and his military derring-do in the 1956 British box-office smash The Dam Busters. Although he devoted more and more of his energies to the stage in the late 1950s-early 1960s, Todd served as executive producer on 1961's Why Bother to Knock and later portrayed a Timothy Leary clone in 1967's The Love-Ins. More recently the actor's achievements include stage actor and producer. Todd listed Equus as his favorite stage production, though it's likely that his eight-year run in the Mayfair Theatre presentation The Business of Murder was kinder to his bank account. In 1987, Richard Todd published Caught in the Act, the first volume of his memoirs. He died in 2009 at the age of 90. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
100 Years of Flight
2004
As one might gather from the title, this British documentary details the history of aeronautics, beginning with the primitive turn of the century attempts that preceded the...
On a Wing and a Prayer
1992
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Princes in Exile
PG13 1990
This drama telling the exploits of seriously ill teens who are spending the summer at a camp for cancer victims makes an effort to bring a light touch to this otherwise gloomy...
Murder, She Wrote: Appointment in Athens
1989
The sixth-season opener of Murder She Wrote takes place in Athens, where mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is reunited with suave but inherently...
Busted Up
R 1986
Prolific actor-stuntman Conrad Palmisano directed this average action-thriller about the owner of an inner-city gym. Earl (Paul Coufos) happens to also be a skilled fighter,...
Jenny's War
PG 1985
Dyan Cannon stars in this 4-hour TV drama as Jenny Baines, an American woman of the pre-WW II era. Anxious to learn the fate of her son, a pilot who was shot down over Germany,...
Doctor Who: Kinda, Episode 1
1982
The TARDIS lands on the jungle planet Deva Loka, around the same time as an expeditionary vessel from earth. Leaving a temporarily disabled Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) behind,...
Doctor Who: Kinda, Episode 2
1982
In the second episode of the four-part story "Kinda," the TARDIS and an expeditionary earth vessel have both landed on the outwardly tranquil jungle planet of Deva Loka. While...
Doctor Who: Kinda, Episode 3
1982
In the third episode of the four-part story "Kinda," the titular telepathic race tries to make contact with several visitors to the planet Deva Loka, including the Doctor...
Doctor Who: Kinda, Episode 4
1982
In the conclusion of the four-part story "Kinda," the Doctor (Peter Davison) is among the visitors to the planet Deva Loka who have fallen under the evil spell of a...
House of the Long Shadows
1982
In this umpteenth remake of the George M. Cohan-Earl Derr Biggers play Seven Keys to Baldpate, Desi Arnaz Jr. plays Kenneth Magee, the young writer who bets that he...
The Big Sleep
R 1978
Robert Mitchum reprises his role as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe from Farewell, My Lovely, in this misconceived remake of Howard Hawks's classic 1946 film --...
Number 1 of the Secret Service
PG 1977
A dashing secret agent takes on a murderous villain in this parody of spy movies. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
Sky Is Falling
1976
A socially deviant man and his friends find themselves to be sacrificial targets of religious cult members. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
The Next Scream You Hear
1974
The Next Scream You Hear stars graying Christopher George as a ruthless young executive. When George's wife is murdered, he is the prime suspect. The more he tries to prove...
Asylum
PG 1972
Four short stories by master of macabre Robert Bloch are related by the inmates of a mental institution. In the first story, Richard Todd murders his wife and cuts her body...
The Aquarian
1972
A man uses his own mental powers to control one of the largest fortunes known to man. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi...
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
R 1970
Based on the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, this film follows a modern-day depiction of selfish, heartless Dorian Gray (Helmut Berger), as he manages...
Last of the Long-Haired Boys
1968
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The Name of the Game Is Kill
1968
Hawaii Five-O's Jack Lord stars in this odd little thriller directed by Gunnar Hellstrom. Lord plays a Hungarian man named Lipa who meets the beautiful Mickey (Susan...