Ann Todd

Acting

Ann Todd

Born 1909-01-24 · Hartford, Cheshire, England

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dorothy Anne Todd (24 January 1907, Hartford, Cheshire – 6 May 1993, London) was an English actress and producer. She was born in Hartford, Cheshire and was educated at St. Winifrid's School, Eastbourne. 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, blond beauty. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ann Todd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

The Paradine Case poster
6.3

In London, barrister Anthony Keane takes the case of Maddalena Paradine, a beautiful woman accused of poisoning her blind husband. Though happily married, Keane becomes infatuated with his enigmatic client and convinced of her innocence. His obsession clouds his judgment as he builds a defense implicating her servant, André Latour—an act that leads to devastating consequences both in court and at home.

The Paradine Case

1947

I Am Alfred Hitchcock poster
7.3

Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of the most influential and studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.

I Am Alfred Hitchcock

2021

Things to Come poster
6.5

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

Things to Come

1936

Taste of Fear poster
7.1

A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.

Taste of Fear

1961

The Passionate Friends poster
6.8

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who's married to someone else, and her older husband.

The Passionate Friends

1949

The Human Factor poster
5.8

When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.

The Human Factor

1979

Time Without Pity poster
6.5

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”

Time Without Pity

1957

So Evil My Love poster
6.4

In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.

So Evil My Love

1948

Poison Pen poster
6.7

The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.

Poison Pen

1939

Perfect Strangers poster
6.6

After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.

Perfect Strangers

1945

The Sound Barrier poster
6.5

A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service.

The Sound Barrier

1952

The Son of Captain Blood poster
6.7

The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman.

The Son of Captain Blood

1962

Ships with Wings poster
6.0

Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.

Ships with Wings

1941

Daybreak poster
6.0

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

Daybreak

1948

The Seventh Veil poster
6.6

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

The Seventh Veil

1945

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate poster
NR

Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

1984

Madeleine poster
6.8

Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.

Madeleine

1950

These Charming People poster
10.0

A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton

These Charming People

1931

90° in the Shade poster
5.7

In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock discrepancies. A test of loyalties and a questioning of values concludes in tragedy.

90° in the Shade

1965

The Squeaker poster
6.3

London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).

The Squeaker

1937

The Return of Bulldog Drummond poster
6.0

Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

The Return of Bulldog Drummond

1934

South Riding poster
6.6

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.

South Riding

1938

The Fiend poster
5.0

Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!

The Fiend

1972

The McGuffin poster
6.5

Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a double murder occurs across the street after some mobsters cannot find an incriminating negative. After Hatcher discovers where the negative is hidden, he is bumped to the top on the assassins' hit list.

The McGuffin

1986