The roles were good, bad and indifferent, but I always gave a part my best shot and tried to enjoy it,' he said. He had his fair share of turkeys. Alfred Hitchcock cast him as the villain opposite Jane Wyman in Stage Fright, but the film was a boxoffice disappointment because, as Hitchcock later admitted, 'the villain was a flop'. But that was a flop, too. Perhaps predictably, the film was not a patch on Errol Flynn's version.
His first wife was Catherine Grant-Bogle, who he met when they appeared together at the Dundee rep. They were divorced in , and shortly afterwards Todd married Virginia, who he divorced in Although he wasn't a hellraiser in the mode of Peter Finch and Robert Mitchum, Todd 'had an eye for the ladies.
On one occasion, his philandering was nearly exposed when he was set up to appear on the television programme This Is Your Life. The subject of the show was always tricked into appearing by some ruse to get them to the studio.
On this occasion, Todd was asked to appear on an unrelated show. Living in the country - he had become a successful dairy-farmer - he saw it as an opportunity to slip his marital ties for the evening and entertain a girlfriend overnight at his London pied-a-terre. Meanwhile, his wife, aware of the ruse to get him to London, had made arrangements to stay at the same London flat to spend a romantic evening with her husband after the show.
Nevertheless, he continued to work regularly in B-movies and on television in such much-loved series as Midsomer Murders, Holby City and Murder, She Wrote. He was appointed OBE in But his two sons' deaths haunted this hero as terribly as the war did. It was cancer that killed Todd, who faced his illness with the courage and dignity with which he had conducted the rest of his life. But then this brave actor of the old school wouldn't have had it any other way. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.
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One of the waiters was rather short, at around 5'6''. The other waiters would joke that if he stood on his toes, he could be taller than Todd, who during the summer months wore flat canvas casual shoes.
My father knew many British actors in his lifetime and clearly remembers Todd being around 5'7''. My father at 5'10'' often stood near him of course, so could judge his height very accurately. Even guys close to 6 ft like Niven felt he had to wear lifts in a lot of his films! Niven's ego appearing with Peck and Heston couldn't tolerate that, though with Peck in Guns of Navarone he did look inches shorter!
Everyone knows Richard wore lifts in his shoes or stood on a box to give him extra height, making him the same height as Sellers, who got upset so he started wearing lifts. That's one of the best quotes ever, great find ;- I suspect that Sellers had the bigger lifts of the two though because at times he made Todd look just 5 ft 7!!
I've seen a few Todd films where he his footwear seemed normal and if anything he could seem taller than this. Around 5 ft 8 is probably OK. Editor Rob. In any event he was the real thing in WWII. You just do it because that is what you are there for. Michael Carrington. Roberts William segment "L'homme de l'avenue". Stephen Mason. David Baird, M. Kerans, RN.
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