Ann Todd

Ann Todd (24 January 1909, Hartford, Cheshire — 6 May 1993, London) 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 (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 married director David Lean in 1949 and starred in a number of his films, including The Passionate Friends, Madeleine (1949) and The Sound Barrier (1952).

She later produced a series of travel films. Her autobiography is entitled "The Eighth Veil," an allusion to the film which made her a U.K. star.

She died on May 6, 1993 from a stroke aged 84.

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. She was affectionately known as "The Pocket Garbo" in the movie press.

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 (film) (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 Flynn
• 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), 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

External links

• Ann Todd at the Internet Movie Database