Ann Todd
Birthday: Born in 1909-01-24 in Hartford, Cheshire, England
Deathday: 1993-05-06
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.
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General Electric Theater
Character: Cynthia Spence
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....
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Sylvia Leeds Kent
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries....
Thriller
Character: Sylvia Lawrence
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....
Climax!
Character: Jane Palmer
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....
Maelstrom
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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....
Movie Credits
Things to Come
Character: Mary Gordon
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....
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Character: Self - Interviewee (uncredited)
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....
The Paradine Case
Character: Gay Keane
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....
Time Without Pity
Character: Honor Stanford
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.”...
The Seventh Veil
Character: Francesca Cunningham
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory....
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Character: Helen
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....
Taste of Fear
Character: Jane Appleby
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....
The Human Factor
Character: Castle's Mother
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....
Madeleine
Character: Madeleine Hamilton Smith
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....
Daybreak
Character: Frances "Frankie" Tribe
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy....
So Evil My Love
Character: Olivia Harwood
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....
The Passionate Friends
Character: Mary Justin
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband....
The Sound Barrier
Character: Susan Garthwaite
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight....
90° in the Shade
Character: Mrs. Kurka
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....
South Riding
Character: Madge Carne
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. " Cor...
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Character: Phyllis Drummond
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson....
The Squeaker
Character: Carol Stedman
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)....
Perfect Strangers
Character: Elena
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion....
The Fiend
Character: Birdy Wemys
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 Green Scarf
Character: Solange Vauthier
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....
Ships with Wings
Character: Kay Gordon
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....
The Water Gipsies
Character: Jane Bell
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...
Danny Boy
Character: Jane Kaye
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....
Action for Slander
Character: Ann Daviot
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ....
The Ghost Train
Character: Peggy Murdock
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....
Poison Pen
Character: Ann Rider
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts....
The McGuffin
Character: Mrs. Forbes-Duthie
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....
Gaiety George
Character: Kathryn Davis
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....
The Son of Captain Blood
Character: Arabella Blood
The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman....
These Charming People
Character: Pamela Crawford
A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton...
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Character: Self
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....