";s:4:"text";s:7867:"In the 1960s, Todd unsuccessfully attempted to produce a film of Ian Fleming's The Diamond Smugglers[10] and a television series based on true accounts of the Queen's Messengers. In his autobiography states that he became extremely affected after filming the final scene of the Dambusters where his character goes to write letters to the families of the men he has lost, Todd having done this for real in World War II. In his memoirs, he describes seeing the bomb pass through the ceiling in front of him before he was blown out of the building by its blast, landing on a grass bank and suffering multiple lacerations, five cadets were killed in the incident. Richard Todd. Be the first to ask a question about Richard Todd. His first professional appearance was in the play ‘Twelfth Night’ held at Regent’s Park open air theater in 1936. ‘The Diamond Smugglers’, ‘Queen’s Messengers’ and a film on William Shakespeare were some of his unsuccessful production attempts in 1960. The Times Digital Archive. In 1989, he appeared in the first episode of the sixth season of Murder, She Wrote in which he played Colonel Alex Schofield in the episode titled "Appointment in Athens". His luck changed for the better when he got a chance to act in films where he was more successful in portraying characters from the armed forces. Only 2 left. Richard Todd was born in Dublin, Ireland. Too long and too much of little interest. The Times Digital Archive. This led to his being cast in that role in the Warner Bros. film adaptation of the play, filmed in Britain, alongside Ronald Reagan and Patricia Neal. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. In 1982 he appeared in television movies ‘Virtual Murder’, ‘Silent Witness’ and in ‘Kinda’, a story on ‘Doctor Who’. This was purchased as a gift for my wife who was very appraciative of it and has thoroughly enjoyed reading it. He was cast for ‘D-Day, the Sixth of June’ in 1956. Was the first Oscar nominee to act in the Doctor Who Series. [2] His father, Andrew William Palethorpe Todd, was an Irish physician and an international Irish rugby player who gained three caps for his country. Web. His father was a physician in the British Army and was posted in India for some time. [3] Richard spent a few of his childhood years in India, where his father, an officer in the British Army, served as a physician. I wish I had half the courage of some of those chaps I've played on the screen. http://www.britishcinemagreats.com/Actors_page/richard_todd/images_full/richard_todd_7.jpg, http://image.toutlecine.com/photos/t/o/d/todd-richard-01-g.jpg. His former agent, Robert Lennard, had become a casting agent for Associated British Picture Corporation and advised him to try out for the Dundee Repertory Company. Condition of used book excellent, even better than expected. -- referring to his heroism during WWII, View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, The Best Actresses and Actors - Born in the 1910s, (1970 - November 2nd 1989 He appeared in The Royal as Hugh Hurst, a retired solicitor, in the episode "Kiss and Tell" (2003); his last appearance in Heartbeat was as Major Harold Beecham in the 2007 episode "Seeds of Destruction". 11 July 2012. I let myself become a willing workhorse. That evening, the venue was destroyed in an air raid, and 15 newly commissioned subalterns were killed. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2010. Richard Todd. Your thoughts. I used to see him many times when visiting but never felt able to approach him. His last TV appearance was on ITV's Heartbeat, but other small screen roles included parts in Holby City, Silent Witness and Murder She Wrote. Great autobiography of a favorite actor. ", Both Todd's marriages ended in divorce. Intent to Kill (1958) was another thriller, this time for Fox, with Betsy Drake. Official Sites, He was an officer in the 7th Battalion (LI) The Parachute Regiment. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. An Autobiography Continued. See under 'Death' below, Nepean, E. (1957, Feb 09). [May 2008], Considered for the roles of Dr. Armstrong and Sir Percy Heseltine in. He played the lead role for eight continuous years in ‘Business of Murder’ held at Mayfair Theatre. [19], In his book British Film Character Actors (1982), Terence Pettigrew described Todd as "an actor who made the most of what he had, which could be summed up as an inability to sit still while there was a horse to leap astride, a swollen river to swim or a tree to vanish into. [10] He was also announced for a proposed film about William Shakespeare. This company produced more than 100 plays, musicals and pantomimes all over the country; some of them starred Todd. Todd did so, performing in plays such as Claudia, where he appeared with Catherine Grant-Bogle, who became his first wife. The lead roles played by him in many war movies were appreciated all over the world as he used his first-hand experience of the war to bring out the maximum effect in each role. In 1997, Seumas Palethorpe-Todd shot himself in the head at the family home in Lincolnshire; an inquest determined that the suicide might have been a depressive reaction to the drug he was taking for severe acne. Born Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd in Dublin in 1919 into an aristocratic, Anglo-Irish family, he was the son of an army doctor. 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