Richard Todd

Date of Birth: Jun 11, 1919
Country: Ireland
Total Credits at Criticker: 43 (Actor), 1 (Director)
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- Kinda: Part One (1982) - S19 E9
- Kinda: Part Two (1982) - S19 E10
- Kinda: Part Three (1982) - S19 E11
- Kinda: Part Four (1982) - S19 E12
Holmes is about to retire to Sussex and keep bees when the king sends him on a mission to South Africa to retrieve the Star of Africa diamond. Complications arise and Holmes meets several historical characters including ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, portrayed by Claude Akins, and Lillie Langtry, played by Jenny Seagrove. He also encounters the fictional character A. J. Raffles. (wikipedia.org)
This crime drama is based on the true story of Billy Isaacs who with his brothers killed a family of six. The story unfolds from Billy's perspective and follows their exploits after they escape from a Maryland prison and embark upon the 13-day joyride from hell. During the journey, the boys go on an unparalleled spree of robbery and cold-blooded murder. They made it through 12 states before they were finally stopped. (allmovie.com)
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him. (imdb)
Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to separate fantasy and reality. This isn't helped by the villagers practicing magic and child sacrifice, or his involvement with a group of boozy ex-patriots lost in their own dreams and regrets.` (imdb)
N° 1 is fearless, irresistible, and licensed to kill. N° 1 is assigned to capture a madman who is killing international financiers. Before getting the bad guy, N° 1 encounters mercenaries from the evil organization K.R.AS.H., killing, rape, arson, slaughter, and hit.
A young psychiatrist interviews four inmates in a mental asylum to satisfy a requirement for employment... (imdb)
In contemporary London, a beautiful and rich young man, Dorian Gray, loves Sybil, an aspiring actress; thanks to her, he's momentarily less self-centered. He's also sitting for a portrait painted by his friend, Basil. When it's done, Dorian complains he'll grow old while it stays unchanged. On the same night, he slaps Sybil and sends her away, then accepts the seductive offer of a party's hostess to sleep with her. The next day, the painting looks slightly older.(imdb)
A C.I.A. man goes to London to assist British Intelligence uncover a mole and destroy a foreign spy ring. (imdb)
A college professor resigns in protest of the dismissal of student underground newspaper workers and later joins their "hippie movement" and becomes their "Messiah." (imdb)
This is the story of the methods used to defeat Hitler's V1 (doodlebug) and V2 (rocket) "revenge weapons" towards the end of the second world war. Even though the Nazis were in retreat these weapons could have turned their defeat into victory. The film includes references to Hannah Reich, who in real life was a test pilot and really did fly some of the first 'flying bombs'. (imdb)
The Villa Fiorita is set on the banks of an Italian lake. The battle is for the mother of 2 children who having fallen in love with an Italian composer and concert pianist leaves her husband to go and live with him in his lakeside villa. Her children however follow her there from the UK and gang-up with her lover's daughter to try & get their mother back. (imdb)
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river. (imdb)
In a high stakes game of double-cross and murder, a sunken ship full of gold is worth killing for! (HKFlix)
A young married woman finds herself being stalked by a sinister psychopath.
When the night watchman of a garage is found murdered, 4 young men are arrested and put on trial. Under cross-examination, suspects and witnesses give differing accounts of the same incidents that led up to the crime. After re-examining the suspects' statements, the prosecuting counsel finally learns the truth. (imdb)
After viewing an unusual film about murder and the irony of fate, a man deliberately steps in front of a slow-moving vehicle, planning to use the minor accident which should result as an alibi for his own wife's murder which he has already engineered. However, what actually occurs is a very different scenario about the "art" of murder. (imdb)
A bitter struggle within the Malaysian jungle of 1942. Cast with differing points of views and attitudes that, when caught in the crossfire of the Japanese might, and taking on a P.O.W., only highlights and ignites the predicament that sorts the men from the boys. This is jungle warfare with a conscience and towards its climax more than just blood, sweat and tears shall surface from the depths of this torrid jungle affair. (imdb)
In this western-style film, set in South Africa, circa the late 1900s, a local police sergeant finds himself pursued by the "The Hellions"--a man and his four sons. Unfortunately for the sergeant, the townspeople will not help to save him and his wife. He ignores his wife's plea that he quit his job and leave. After some time, he finally forces a storekeeper to assist him. Soon the rest of the townsfolk begin lending their assistance. (allmovie.com)
A romantically active travel agent gives all his girlfriends keys to his flat - too many to keep count of!
A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure. (imdb)
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst. (imdb)
A man shows up at Kimberley Prescott's villa claiming to be her brother. But Ward Prescott died in a car accident a year ago, so how can this man be him? Despite Kim's protests that the stranger isn't her brother, everyone else accepts him, including their uncle. Kim begins to fear for her sanity and her life. (imdb)
British melodrama maven Jimmy Sangster adapted his screenplay for Intent to Kill from a novel by Michael Bryan. Richard Todd plays a Montreal doctor who is in love with his pretty American assistant Betsy Drake. Todd is saddled with a viper-tongued wife (Catherine Boyle), who wants him to leave the provinces for a posh practice in London. (allrovi.com)
Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested with crocodiles.
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch. (imdb)
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn. (imdb)
'Twas the night before D-Day. One ship, carrying Special Force Six, leaves ahead of the main invasion on a dangerous mission. On board are British Colonel Wynter and American Captain Parker, who each, in flashback, reminisce about their separate involvements with beauteous Valerie Russell. Will the coming battle (confined to the film's last fifteen minutes) determine which one comes home to her? (imdb)
Sir Walter Raleigh gains audience with Queen Elizabeth I and soon wins her over to his way of thinking. He wants ships to sail and make a name for England. A young ward of the court, Beth Throgmorton, is strongly attracted to Raleigh and returns the attraction. But soon the Queen shows her desires and he bends in order to achieve his goal of ships. But still he loves Beth. (imdb)
The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany's industrial heart. At first the objective looks impossible until a British scientist invents an ingenious weapon capable of destroying the planned target. (imdb)
Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate. (imdb)
Story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnapped by the Duke of Buckingham... (imdb)
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English. (imdb)
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by hench men of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing. (imdb)
Private detective Edward Mercer is hired to find a war-time Italian partisan in Venice and reward him for aiding the escape of am American during the war. The war hero is not what he seems, however. (BFI)
A writer tells a crowd in a café about a woman he knows, who once feel deeply in love with a desperate, compulsive gambler. (imdb)
Shelley Carnes is a stage actress who champions the cause of Richard Trevelyan, whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife. Freed on a technicality, Trevelyan is nonetheless adjudged guilty in the court of public opinion. Carnes stands by her man, eventually marrying him. On the wedding night, however, it appears that Carnes has made a horrible mistake. It won't be long before she, too, will fall into the clutches of a killer--but is it Trevelyan? (allmovie.com)
Three generations of a Scottish clan are chronicled in this melodramatic saga. The film starts with the death of a sickly med student in a Glasgow slum. His fiancee also dies in childbirth. Her brother, who survives, begins raising her baby girl who grows up to have an affair with a lab assistant. Her "father" disapprove and threatens to destroy the wedding. She retaliates by poisoning him and then gets married. She bears a son. (allmovie.com)
Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his lover's husband. (imdb)
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed; a priggish lawyer; and a sympathetic barrister. (imdb)
The Hasty Heart is a melodramatic film which tells the story of a group of wounded Allied soldiers during World War II who rally around a surly, unappreciative Scotsman when they find out he is dying. (Wikipedia)
A young girl is murdered and Christopher Drew, zealous of his reputation, withholds information in case his relationship with her may damage his career. (BFI)
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems. (imdb)
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