Ann Todd

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Ann Todd (January 24, 1909 - May 6, 1993) was a popular English actress and producer.

She was born in Hartford, Cheshire and was educated at St Winifrid's School in Eastbourne. She became a popular actress in such films as Perfect Strangers (1945) (as a nurse) and The Seventh Veil (1947) (as a troubled concert pianist), as well as several of David Lean's films including Madeleine (1949) and The Sound Barrier (1952). Lean became her third husband. She later produced a series of travel films. Her autobiography is entitled "The Eighth Veil".

She died from a stroke aged 84.

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[edit] Personal

Ann Todd was married three times. Her first husband Victor Malcolm was a grandson of Lillie Langtry, while her second and third husbands (Nigel Tangye and David Lean) were first cousins.

[edit] Filmography

  • “Maigret” - One episode, "The patience of Maigret" (1992), Mlle Josette
  • “The McGuffin” (1986), Mrs Forbes-Duthie
  • “Maelstrom” (1985), Astrid Linderman
  • “The Human Factor” (1979), Castle’s mother
  • “The Fiend” (1972), Birdy Wemys
  • "Thirty Minute Theatre TV series" - One episode: "The keys on the streets" (1967), ?
  • "Armchair Theatre (TV series)" - Two episodes: "Ready for glory"(1966), Lady Baynton; "The Lady of Camellias" (1958), Marguerite Gautier
  • "Ninety degrees in the shade" (1965), Mrs Kurka
  • "Figlio del capitano Blood II" (1962), Arabella Blood
  • "Thriller TV series" - One episode: "Letter to a lover" (1961), Sylvia Lawrence
  • "Taste of Fear" (1961), Jane Appleby
  • "Playhouse 90 TV series" - Two episodes: "The grey nurse said nothing" (1959), Laura Mills; "Not the glory" (1958), Lady Diane Goodfellow
  • "The Offshore Island" (1959) (TV), Rachel Verney
  • "Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series" - One episode: "Sylvia" (1958), Sylvia Leeds Kent
  • "General Electric Theater TV series" - One episode: "Letters from Cairo" (1958), Cynthia Spence
  • "Climax TV series" - One episode: "Shadow of a Memory" (1957), Jane Palmer
  • "Time Without Pity" (1957), Honor Stanford
  • "The United States Steel Hour TV series" - One episode: "Edward My Son" (1955), Evelyn Holt
  • "The Alcoa Hour TV series" - One episode: "The Black Wings" (1955), Jane Cornish
  • "The Green Scarf" (1954), Solange Vauthier
  • "BBC Sunday Night Theatre: Tovarich" (1954) (TV), Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna
  • "The Sound Barrier" (1952), Susan Garthwaite
  • "Madeleine" (1950), Madeleine Smith
  • "The Passionate Friends" (1949), Mary Justin
  • "So Evil My Love" (1948), Olivia Harwood
  • "Daybreak" (1948), Frankie
  • "The Paradine Case" (1947), Gay Keane
  • "Gaiety George" (1946), Kathryn Davis
  • "The Seventh Veil" (1945), Francesca
  • "Perfect Strangers" (1945), Elena
  • "Ships with Wings" (1942), Kay Gordon
  • "Danny Boy" (1941), Jane Kaye
  • "Poison Pen" (1940), Ann Rider
  • "Tower of London" (1939), Princess - uncredited
  • "Ann and Harold TV series" - unknown episodes, (1938), Ann Teviot
  • "The Old and the Young" (1938) (TV), ?
  • "Black Magic" (1938) (TV), Mary Chalfont
  • "South Riding" (1938), Madge Carne
  • "The Squeaker" (1937), Carol Stedman
  • "Action for Slander" (1937), Ann Daviot
  • "Things to Come" (1936), Mary Gordon
  • "The Return of Bulldog Drummond" (1934), Phyllis Drummond
  • "The Water Gipsies" (1932), Jane Bell
  • "The Ghost Train" (1931), Peggy Murdock
  • "These Charming People" (1931), Pamela Crawford
  • "Keepers of Youth" (1931), Millicent


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