Richard Todd OBE 1919 - signed photo
Size: 5.5in x 3.5in
UK - c.1980

Signed: 'Best Wishes Royston, Richard Todd'

B/w photo postcard size (Walkerprint, London) signed and dedicated by this great British actor, Richard Todd 1919 - .

Richard Todd (11 June 1919) a British actor, soldier and film star.


Richard Todd performance in his first film The Hasty Heart in 1948, was a truly star-making and moving piece of work, it earned him an Oscar nomination as Best Actor. He followed it with a role in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950), but although he continued to play leading roles, often in quite good films, he never again achieved the prominence and acclaim he had had with The Hasty Heart. He was quite effective in such roles as Robin Hood and Rob Roy, and very touching as Peter Marshall in A Man Called Peter (1955). Ultimately, however, his starring roles dwindled, but he continued as a stalwart character actor, primarily in British films.

During the Second World War, Todd served as an officer in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and as a Paratrooper in the British 6th Airborne Division. As a member of the 7th (LI) Parachute Battalion, he was one of the first British officers to land in Normandy on D-Day and met up with Major John Howard on Pegasus Bridge. Ironically, Todd would later play Howard in the film The Longest Day (1962), with another actor portraying Richard Todd.


Films include:

The Hasty Heart (1949)
Stage Fright (1950)
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
The Sword and the Rose (1953)
Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1954),
The Dam Busters (1955) as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, VC
A Man Called Peter (1955) as Peter Marshall
The Virgin Queen (1955) as Sir Walter Raleigh
D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)
Marie-Antoinette reine de France (1956) Comte Axel von Fersen
Chase a Crooked Shadow (1957)
Yangtse Incident (1957)
Saint Joan (1957)
Danger Within (1958)
The Long and the Short and the Tall (1960)
The Hellions (1961)
Don't Bother to Knock (1961)
The Longest Day (1962)
Death Drums Along The River (1963)
Operation Crossbow (1965)
The Boys (1962)
The Love-Ins (1967)