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Acting

Richard Todd

Career: Active from 1949 to 1992, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 39
top three billing

Average score: 58/100

Highest rated: The Dam Busters
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 44 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Richard Todd Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.7, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.8, average 2.2
Situational Comedy
1.7, average 2.7
Absurdist Humor
1.1, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 6
Suspenseful 4
Moral Ambiguity 4
Intrigue 4
Historical Drama 4
Psychological Tension 3
Psychological Thriller 3
Slow Burn 3
Classic Hollywood 3
Murder Investigation 2
Intriguing Plot 2
Psychological Suspense 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

68

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

3 titles · average score 59

British Film Forever

TV show

The Royal

51

TV show · as Hugh Hirst

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

67

TV show

1990s

6 titles · average score 73

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Charles Edmonton

Silent Witness

75

TV show

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

55

as Lord Roberts

Heartbeat

80

TV show · as Harold Beecham

Virtual Murder

TV show · as Judge Rawcliffe

Beautiful Lies

as H.G. Wells

1980s

7 titles · average score 70

Olympus Force: The Key

as Lord Wisden

Jenny's War

TV show · as Gen. Benjamin Cutler

Jenny's War

as Gen. Benjamin Cutler

The Last Place on Earth

77

TV show · as Mr. Barnes

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Alec Scofield

House of the Long Shadows

57

as Sam Allyson

Doctor Who: Kinda

as Sanders

1970s

9 titles · average score 53

Home Before Midnight

38

as Geoffrey Steele

The Big Sleep

52

as Commander Barker

No. 1 of the Secret Service

44

as Arthur Loveday

The Sky is Falling

46

as Terence

The Next Scream You Hear

as George Tulliver

Boy Dominic

TV show · as Capt. Richard Bulman

Thriller

74

TV show · as George Tulliver

Asylum

62

as Walter

Dorian Gray

53

as Basil Hallward

1960s

15 titles · average score 59

Subterfuge

as Col. Victor Redmayne

The Love-Ins

30

as Dr. Jonathan Barnett

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

51

as Darrell

Coast of Skeletons

53

as Harry Sanders

Death Drums Along the River

51

as Inspector Harry Sanders

Doctor Who

76

TV show · as Sanders

The Very Edge

58

as Geoffrey Lawrence

The Boys

73

as Victor Webster

The Long and the Short and the Tall

63

as Sgt. 'Mitch' Mitchem

Don't Bother to Knock

49

as Bill Ferguson

The Hellions

63

as Sam Hargis

Never Let Go

68

as John Cummings

1950s

22 titles · average score 60

Danger Within

62

as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird

Chase a Crooked Shadow

64

as Williams, alias Ward McKenzie Prescott Jr.

Saint Joan

42

as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans

D-Day the Sixth of June

49

as Lt. Col. John Wynter

The Dam Busters

88

as Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.

The Virgin Queen

67

as Sir Walter Raleigh

A Man Called Peter

67

as The Rev. Peter Marshall

The Sword and the Rose

52

as Charles Brandon

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

51

as Rob Roy MacGregor

Venetian Bird

63

as Edward Mercer

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

65

as Robin Hood

Lightning Strikes Twice

40

as Richard Trevelyan

1940s

3 titles · average score 67

The Hasty Heart

73

as Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan

For Them That Trespass

as Herbert Edward Logan

The Interrupted Journey

62

as John North

1930s

3 titles · average score 63

A Yank at Oxford

60

as Extra in Sporting Event (uncredited)

Good Morning, Boys!

66

as Extra in crowd scene (uncredited)

The Gap

as Orderly (uncredited)