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Ann Todd
Acting · 1909–1993 · Hartford, Cheshire, England
Biography
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.
Known for

Climax!
Jane Palmer

Thriller
Sylvia Lawrence

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Sylvia Leeds Kent

Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Woman

General Electric Theater
Cynthia Spence

Armchair Theatre
1956

Maelstrom
1985

Poison Pen
Ann Rider

The Paradine Case
Gay Keane

The Human Factor
Castle's Mother
Filmography
- 2021I Am Alfred HitchcockSelf (archive footage)
- 1986The McGuffinMrs. Forbes-Duthie
- 1985Maelstrom
- 1984James Mason: The Star They Loved to HateSelf - Interviewee (uncredited)
- 1979The Human FactorCastle's Mother
- 1972The FiendBirdy Wemys
- 1965Thirty-Minute TheatreThe Woman
- 196590° in the ShadeMrs. Kurka
- 1962The Son of Captain BloodArabella Blood
- 1961Taste of FearJane Appleby
- 1960ThrillerSylvia Lawrence
- 1960The Snows of KilimanjaroHelen
- 1958The Lady of the CamelliasMarguerite Gautier
- 1957Time Without PityHonor Stanford
- 1956Armchair Theatre
- 1955Alfred Hitchcock PresentsSylvia Leeds Kent
- 1954Climax!Jane Palmer
- 1954The Green ScarfSolange Vauthier
- 1953General Electric TheaterCynthia Spence
- 1952The Sound BarrierSusan Garthwaite
- 1950MadeleineMadeleine Hamilton Smith
- 1949The Passionate FriendsMary Justin
- 1948So Evil My LoveOlivia Harwood
- 1948DaybreakFrances "Frankie" Tribe
- 1947The Paradine CaseGay Keane
- 1946Gaiety GeorgeKathryn Davis
- 1945The Seventh VeilFrancesca Cunningham
- 1945Perfect StrangersElena
- 1942We Serve
- 1941Ships with WingsKay Gordon
- 1941Danny BoyJane Kaye
- 1939Poison PenAnn Rider
- 1938South RidingMadge Carne
- 1937The SqueakerCarol Stedman
- 1937Action for SlanderAnn Daviot
- 1936Things to ComeMary Gordon
- 1934The Return of Bulldog DrummondPhyllis Drummond
- 1932The Water GipsiesJane Bell
- 1931Keepers of YouthMillicent
- 1931The Ghost TrainPeggy Murdock
- 1931These Charming PeoplePamela Crawford
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