Ann Todd

Ann Todd

Born: January 24, 1909
Died: May 6, 1993
in Hartford, Cheshire, England
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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.

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I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Title: I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Character: Self
Released: May 2, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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The McGuffin
Title: The McGuffin
Character: Mrs. Forbes-Duthie
Released: January 12, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Maelstrom
Released: February 5, 1985
Type: TV
A millionaire leaves his fortune to an unknown woman, Catherine Durell, who travels to Norway to take over her newly inherited property. Soon, she finds herself caught in a maelstrom of murder and terror.
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James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Title: James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Character: Self - Interviewee (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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The Human Factor
Title: The Human Factor
Character: Castle's Mother
Released: December 18, 1979
Type: Movie
A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his unimportant position, when his office partner is hauled in as a suspect he realises he has got himself into very deep water.
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The Fiend
Title: The Fiend
Character: Birdy Wemys
Released: April 30, 1972
Type: Movie
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!
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90° in the Shade
Title: 90° in the Shade
Character: Mrs. Kurka
Released: October 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to cover up the thefts committed by the manager at the shop she works at.
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The Son of Captain Blood
Title: The Son of Captain Blood
Character: Arabella Blood
Released: July 27, 1962
Type: Movie
The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman.
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Taste of Fear
Title: Taste of Fear
Character: Jane Appleby
Released: June 5, 1961
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Sylvia Lawrence
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: TV
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Title: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Character: Helen
Released: March 25, 1960
Type: Movie
A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short story.
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Time Without Pity
Title: Time Without Pity
Character: Honor Stanford
Released: March 21, 1957
Type: Movie
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.”
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Sylvia Leeds Kent
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Jane Palmer
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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The Green Scarf
Title: The Green Scarf
Character: Solange Vauthier
Released: August 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A deaf, dumb and blind man, Jacques Vauthier (Kieron Moore), confesses to committing a murder, apparently without motive. He depends on his defense attorney, Delfot (Michael Redgrave), to unravel the mystery behind his actions.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Cynthia Spence
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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The Sound Barrier
Title: The Sound Barrier
Character: Susan Garthwaite
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
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Madeleine
Title: Madeleine
Character: Madeleine Hamilton Smith
Released: February 16, 1950
Type: Movie
The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
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The Passionate Friends
Title: The Passionate Friends
Character: Mary Justin
Released: January 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.
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So Evil My Love
Title: So Evil My Love
Character: Olivia Harwood
Released: August 2, 1948
Type: Movie
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.
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Daybreak
Title: Daybreak
Character: Frances "Frankie" Tribe
Released: May 18, 1948
Type: Movie
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
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The Paradine Case
Title: The Paradine Case
Character: Gay Keane
Released: December 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Attorney Anthony Keane agrees to represent Londonite Mrs. Paradine, who has been fingered in her husband's murder. From the start, the married lawyer is drawn to the enigmatic beauty, and he begins to cast about for a way to exonerate his client. Keane puts the Paradine household servant on the stand, suggesting he is the killer. But Keane soon loses his way in the courtroom, and his half-baked plan sets off a stunning chain of events.
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Gaiety George
Title: Gaiety George
Character: Kathryn Davis
Released: July 15, 1946
Type: Movie
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
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The Seventh Veil
Title: The Seventh Veil
Character: Francesca Cunningham
Released: October 18, 1945
Type: Movie
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
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Perfect Strangers
Title: Perfect Strangers
Character: Elena
Released: October 15, 1945
Type: Movie
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
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We Serve
Title: We Serve
Released: June 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
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Ships with Wings
Title: Ships with Wings
Character: Kay Gordon
Released: November 10, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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Danny Boy
Title: Danny Boy
Character: Jane Kaye
Released: August 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.
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Poison Pen
Title: Poison Pen
Character: Ann Rider
Released: July 3, 1939
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
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South Riding
Title: South Riding
Character: Madge Carne
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
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.
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The Squeaker
Title: The Squeaker
Character: Carol Stedman
Released: November 11, 1937
Type: Movie
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).
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Action for Slander
Title: Action for Slander
Character: Ann Daviot
Released: July 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
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Things to Come
Title: Things to Come
Character: Mary Gordon
Released: March 31, 1936
Type: Movie
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.
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The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Title: The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Character: Phyllis Drummond
Released: April 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
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The Water Gipsies
Title: The Water Gipsies
Character: Jane Bell
Released: March 21, 1932
Type: Movie
Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies
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Keepers of Youth
Title: Keepers of Youth
Character: Millicent
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colleagues and the headmaster alike, and then attempts to force himself on Millicent, the assistant matron.
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The Ghost Train
Title: The Ghost Train
Character: Peggy Murdock
Released: September 22, 1931
Type: Movie
The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasingly threatened by a latent external force. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
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These Charming People
Title: These Charming People
Character: Pamela Crawford
Released: July 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton