Richard Todd
Richard Andrew PalethorpeTodd 11 June 1919 3 December 2009 was an Irish actor known for his leading man roles of the 1950s He received a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer Male and an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance as Corporal Lachlan MacLachlan in the 1949 film The Hasty Heart His other notable roles include Jonathan Cooper in Stage Fright 1950 Wing Commander Guy Gibson in The Dam Busters 1955 Sir Walter Raleigh in The Virgin Queen 1955 and Major John Howard in The Longest Day 1962 He was previously a Captain in the British Army during the Second World War fighting in the DDay landings as a member of the 7th Light Infantry Parachute Battalion Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Todd licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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