Another passing - Richard Todd

[Marc]

Richard Todd who's probably best rememberd for playing Wing Commander Guy Gibson in The Dam Busters has passed away at age 90.

Doctor Who fans may remember him as Sanders in Kinda

Todd had a very unique attribute. He was also a war hero depicted him movies such as The Longest day where he appeared opposite the actor who was playing "Richard Todd"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/05/2762844.htm?section=justin

British actor and World War Two hero Richard Todd died on Thursday aged 90, British media reported.
Todd was one of the first British officers to land in Normandy in advance of the main D-Day landings and then went on to become Britain's highest-earning post-war matinee idol.
His most memorable screen role was that of Wing Commander Guy Gibson in the 1955 film The Dam Busters.
But the Dublin-born Todd was also a real-life hero, one of the first British soldiers to parachute into France on D-Day 11 years earlier.

 

[Starkers]

RIP Mr Todd

 

[ancientone51]

I did love the irony of him playing opposite "himself" in The Longest Day.

RIP, sir

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[Captaindemotion]

^ Additionally, during WWII he had also met the real-life man who he was playing in that movie.

I never knew until he died that he was Ian Fleming's first choice to play James Bond. I'd always heard that it was Cary Grant. I can't see Todd making the same success of it that Connery did. He was too old fashioned and gentlemanly; even though he was a real-life war hero, he would have been more of a Bond for the 1950s and 1940s. He wouldn't have had the animal-like quality that Connery brought so aptly to the 1960s. Still, an interesting 'what if?'

 

[Haggis and tatties]

90 is a good kick at the ball so R.I.P.

 

[barnaclelapse]

RIP indeed.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

90 is a good kick at the ball so R.I.P.

It is indeed, R.I.P. sir.

 

[John Clark]

Sad news

I did enjoy him in The Longest Day and Dambusters and had only heard about the Bond thing yesterday.

RIP.