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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, 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 lists 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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1991)
Cast: Christopher Lee Patrick Macnee
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime Whodunit
Length: 100min
Four countries--Great Britain, Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg--were in on the financing of 1991's Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls. At first glance, Christopher Lee seems too old to play Conan Doyle's master detective, but the script allows...
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Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (1970)
Tags: Drama Fantasy
Length: 92min
The classic story of evil by Oscar Wilde is a plodding, campy, trashy production that gives the viewer moments of unintentional laughter. Dorian Gray (Helmut Berger) is the vain young Englishman who sells his soul to the devil to remain eternally...
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Subterfuge (1968)
Cast: Gene Barry
Tags: Action
Length: 89min
CIA agent Donovan (Gene Barry) travels to Britain to untangle a web of international spies. He falls for the estranged wife of local secret agent Langley (Tom Adams). Anne (Joan Collins) starts a romance with Donovan before her son is kidnapped by...
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Operation Crossbow (1965)
Cast: Sophia Loren George Peppard Paul Henreid Trevor Howard John Mills Emeric Pressburger Sylvia Syms Tom Courtenay
Tags: War War Spy Film Action War Adventure Spy Film
Length: 116min
This big-budget, big-studio espionage film is set in the last years of World War II. George Peppard, Tom Courtenay and Jeremy Kemp parachute into Germany, with orders to destroy the Nazis' V-1 rocket base at Peenemunde. Given the order of billing,...
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Number 1 of the Secret Service (1977)
Tags: Spy Film Parody/Spoof Action Comedy
Length: 87min
A dashing secret agent takes on a murderous villain in this parody of spy movies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Coast of Skeletons (1965)
Tags: Mystery Detective Film
Length: 90min
In the mid-1960s, Richard Todd starred in two British films based on Edgar Wallace's -Sanders of the River. Coast of Skeletons was the sequel to Todd's earlier Death Drums Along the River. Playing insurance investigator Harry Sanders, Todd comes upon...
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The Very Edge (1963)
Tags: Thriller
Length: 90min
This melodramatic tale of a sexual assault on a married woman has a few implausible moments but is believably acted by Anne Heywood as Tracey, the victim, Richard Todd as her husband Lawrence, and Jack Hedley as the man from Scotland Yard sent to...
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The Love-Ins (1967)
Tags: Satire Comedy Drama
Length: 86min
In this dated, satirical drama, a college professor 'drops-out,' 'turns-on' and becomes a hippie guru after two students who publish an underground newspaper are unjustly expelled. The new guru promotes the dropping of LSD to find true enlightenment....
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The Affair at Villa Fiorita (1965)
Cast: Rossano Brazzi Maureen O'Hara Finlay Currie Phyllis Calvert Delmer Daves
Tags: Romance Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 111min
Originally released in Great Britain as The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, this film is not a wartime epic but a cozy domestic drama. Maureen O'Hara plays an American woman who leaves British husband Richard Todd, taking their two children along. While...
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Sanders (1963)
Cast: Nicolas Roeg Richard Todd
Tags: Adventure Mystery
Length: 83min
Death Drums Along the River was the come-on American title for this 1963 remake of 1935's Sanders of the River. Both films were loosely based on a very popular Edgar Wallace novel. Richard Todd assumes the leading role of Harry Sanders (originally R....
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