Richard Todd

His breakthrough was 1955's The Dam Busters.

Anderson had mostly been making smaller films, so even its star Richard Todd initially wondered why the studio had hired him.

such an inexpensive relatively unknown director he quickly changed his mind later describing Anderson as quiet authoritative and incredibly precise with actors and the movie became Britain's biggest box office hit of 1955 and immediately pushed Anderson into much larger international productions yeah he was just basically a very calm tempered very precise director like I was saying he wasn't this like tyrannical auteur or a huge personality he was just like really good at managing complicated productions like Gone with the Wind director was like that kind of guy But yeah, that's what kind of makes Around the World in 80 Days a perfect showcase for him.

He inherited an already chaotic production after John Farrow left, but he had a versatile career.

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Richard Todd in The Hasty Heart, which is a real weird one.

Really weird.

Too much Ronald Reagan.

yes also and just a very misanthropic character uh very self-pitying misanthropic i also don't remember if richard todd is actually scottish or if he's just doing a very uh thick accent and that i said my review of that was a dying prick is still a prick

yes like he's he's just because he's dying doesn't mean i care Yeah.

Yeah.

Yes.

Um, Elizabeth Sellers we talked about in Goompod when she played Richard Todd's wife in Never Let Go.

Wow.

The Peter Sellers film.

What's going on? And it worries him.

So I think Richard Todd is amazing.

And Nerys Hughes as well.

So, yes, I really like it, even so.

Fun point about Richard Todd.

He is one of a very small subset of classic series Doctor Who guest stars who have been nominated for an American Academy Award.

There was a World War II picture called The Hasty Heart.

It takes place in Burma after the war is over and convalescing American soldiers are in an army hospital before rotating back to the States.

Mm.

I mean, it's clearly a story where they realize, yeah, three companion doesn't work, particularly if we wanna add in Todd as a f- as kind of a companion-

Mm

... for the story.

And the idea this kind of very, like, British Empire have kind of gone to India and it's kind of subdue and, and take over the local sort of thing going on with the, with the Kindra.

It is fascinating because in one sense it, it very much caricature.

I mean, Richard Todd plays Sanders like some kind of British commander-

Yeah [laughs]

Yeah.

He went in with the 7th Battalion, some Major Howard and the actor Richard Todd.

Some viewers may know him or heard of him.

He was with that team, that company.

I'm better when I go sort of, Method.

I'm a bit like De Niro.

Method actor.

Christian Bowe or

I know.

But now they went back to the Richard Todd ones, and it was kinda nice for a minute to be, oh yeah, yeah, the Wesley Walker, Richard Todd, Freeman McNeil one.

You mean just where it says Jets in white?

Yeah.