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Ann Todd

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Ann Todd

Born January 24, 1909 in Hartford, Cheshire, EnglandDied May 6, 199332 films

Dorothy Anne Todd (24 January 1907, Hartford, Cheshire – 6 May 1993, London) was an English actress and producer.

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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.

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Ranked by acclaim and reach
Things to Come poster6.5Things to Come1936The Paradine Case poster6.2The Paradine Case1947The Passionate Friends poster6.8The Passionate Friends1949The Sound Barrier poster6.5The Sound Barrier1952Time Without Pity poster6.5Time Without Pity1957

Filmography

32 films as actor
  1. 1986The McGuffinMrs. Forbes-Duthie
  2. 1979The Human FactorCastle's Mother
  3. 1972The FiendBirdy Wemys
  4. 196590° in the ShadeMrs. Kurka
  5. 1962The Son of Captain BloodArabella Blood
  6. 1961Taste of FearJane Appleby
  7. 1960The Snows of KilimanjaroHelen
  8. 1958The Lady of the CamelliasMarguerite Gautier
  9. 1957Time Without PityHonor Stanford
  10. 1954The Green ScarfSolange Vauthier
  11. 1952The Sound BarrierSusan Garthwaite
  12. 1950MadeleineMadeleine Hamilton Smith
  13. 1949The Passionate FriendsMary Justin
  14. 1948So Evil My LoveOlivia Harwood
  15. 1948DaybreakFrances "Frankie" Tribe
  16. 1947The Paradine CaseGay Keane
  17. 1946Gaiety GeorgeKathryn Davis
  18. 1945The Seventh VeilFrancesca Cunningham
  19. 1945Perfect StrangersElena
  20. 1942We Serve
  21. 1941Ships with WingsKay Gordon
  22. 1941Danny BoyJane Kaye
  23. 1939Poison PenAnn Rider
  24. 1938South RidingMadge Carne
  25. 1937The SqueakerCarol Stedman
  26. 1937Action for SlanderAnn Daviot
  27. 1936Things to ComeMary Gordon
  28. 1934The Return of Bulldog DrummondPhyllis Drummond
  29. 1932The Water GipsiesJane Bell
  30. 1931Keepers of YouthMillicent
  31. 1931The Ghost TrainPeggy Murdock
  32. 1931These Charming PeoplePamela Crawford