Ann Todd

Ann Todd
Todd in The Paradine Case, 1948.
Born	24 January 1909 Hartford, Cheshire, England
Died	6 May 1993(1993-05-06) (aged 84) London, England
Occupation	actress, producer
Spouse	Victor N. Malcolm (1933-?) Nigel Tangye (1945-1949) David Lean (1949-1957)

Dorothy Anne Todd (24 January 1909 – 6 May 1993) was an English actress and producer.

She was born in Hartford, Cheshire and was educated at St. Winifrid's School, Eastbourne, Sussex. She became a popular actress from appearing in such films as Perfect Strangers (1945) (as a nurse) and The Seventh Veil (1945) (as a troubled concert pianist). She is perhaps best known to American audiences as Gregory Peck's long-suffering wife in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947). She later produced a series of travel films. Her autobiography is entitled The Eighth Veil, an allusion to the film which made her a star in Britain. Todd was known as the "pocket Garbo" for her diminutive, blonde beauty.^[1]

Personal life

Ann Todd was married three times. Her first husband, Victor N. Malcolm, was a grandson of Lillie Langtry, while her second and third husbands (Nigel Tangye and David Lean) were first cousins. She married film director Lean in 1949 and starred in a number of his films, including The Passionate Friends (1949), Madeleine (1950) and The Sound Barrier (1952).

Ann Todd died on 6 May 1993 from a stroke aged 84.

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[Son of Captain Blood] (1962), Arabella Blood opposite Errol Flynn's son Sean
• 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 (1939), 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), Midge 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

References

1. ^ ¹ Passages by Maria Speidel. People Magazine. 24 May 1993. p. Vol. 39 No. 20. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20110480,00.html. 

External links

Biography portal

• Ann Todd at the Internet Movie Database
• performances listed in Theatre Archive University of Bristol
• Ann Todd at the Internet Broadway Database
• Ann Todd at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
• Ann Todd at Find a Grave