Richard Todd

Richard Todd (1919 - 2009)
==Film Deaths==
*The Hasty Heart (1949) [Cpl MacLachlan]: Wounded on the last day of WW2 in the Burma campaign, surgeons remove a kidney but discover his other one is deteriorating and cannot be saved. He is alive at the end of the movie but has been told he will eventually die. Included here for that reason.
*Stage Fright (1950) [Jonathan Cooper]: Crushed to death when the theater curtain falls on his while he's fleeing from the police.
*A Man Called Peter (1955) [Peter Marshall]: Dies (off-screen) of a heart attack; we are only informed of his death.
*D-Day the Sixth of June (1956) [Lt. Col. John Wynter]: Blown up when he unknowingly steps on a mine.
*The Long And The Short And The Tall (Jungle Fighters) (1961) [Sgt. Mitchem]: Shot in the head by a Japanese soldier as the patrol gets cornered.
*The Love-ins (1967) [Dr. Jonathan Barnett]: Shot in the chest by James MacArthur while Richard is speaking at a rally in a stadium.
*Asylum (1972) [Walter]: Killed by Sylvia Syms's reanimated severed body parts.
*Bloodbath (Las Flores del vicio; The Sky Is Falling) (1975) [Terence]: Executed via firing squad.
*No. 1 of the Secret Service (1977) [Arthur Loveday]: Shoots himself in the head while playing Russian Roulette with Nicky Henson; we hear the shot over a close-up of Nicky flinching, and his body is shown sitting in his chair immediately afterwards.
==Television Deaths==
*Midsomer Murders: Birds Of Prey (2003) [Charles Edmonton]: Dies of a fatal injection of unknown substances by Alexandra Gilbreath, while Richard is asleep. His body is shown when Anton Lesser discovers him in a freezer.
==Notable Connections==
* Ex-husband of Virginia Mailer
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