Ann Todd

Dorothy Anne Todd (24 January 1909 – 6 May 1993) was an English actress and producer.

Spouses:

Victor N. Malcolm (1933-?)
Nigel Tangye (1945-1949)
David Lean (1949-1957)

Life and career

She was born in Hartford, Cheshire and was educated at St. Winifrid's School,Eastbourne, Sussex. 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 asGregory Peck's long-suffering wife in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case(1947). She later produced a series of travel films. Her autobiography is entitledThe Eighth Veil, an allusion to the film which made her a star in Britain. Todd was known as the "pocket Garbo" for her diminutive, blonde beauty.

Ann Todd married three times. Her first husband, Victor N. Malcolm, was a grandson of Lillie Langtry; she had a son with him named David Malcolm. Her second and third husbands (Nigel Tangye and David Lean) were first cousins. She had a daughter with Nigel Tangye called Ann Francesca Tangye. She married film director Lean in 1949 and starred in a number of his films, includingThe Passionate Friends (1949), Madeleine (1950) and The Sound Barrier (1952). Lean and Todd divorced in 1957.

Ann Todd died on 6 May 1993 from a stroke aged 84.

Filmography

• Maigret (TV) - One episode, "The Patience of Maigret" (1992), Mlle Josette
• Screen Two (TV) - One episode: "The McGuffin" (1986), Mrs Forbes-Duthie
• Maelstrom (TV miniseries) (1985), Astrid Linderman
• The Human Factor (1979), Castle’s mother
• The Fiend (1972), Birdy Wemys
• Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV) - One episode: "The Keys on the Streets" (1967), The woman
• Armchair Theatre (TV) - Two episodes: "Ready for Glory" (1966), Lady Baynton; "The Lady of Camellias" (1958), Marguerite Gautier
• Ninety Degrees in the Shade (1965), Mrs Kurka
• Figlio del capitano Blood II [Son of Captain Blood] (1962), Arabella Blood opposite Errol Flynn's son Sean
• Thriller (TV) - One episode: "Letter to a lover" (1961), Sylvia Lawrence
• Taste of Fear (1961), Jane Appleby
• Playhouse 90 (TV) - Two episodes: "The Grey Nurse Said Nothing" (1959), Laura Mills; "Not the Glory" (1958), Lady Diane Goodfellow
• The Offshore Island (TV) (1959), Rachel Verney
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV) - One episode: "Sylvia" (1958), Sylvia Leeds Kent
• General Electric Theater (TV) - One episode: "Letters from Cairo" (1958), Cynthia Spence
• Climax! (TV) - One episode: Shadow of a Memory (1957), Jane Palmer
• Time Without Pity (1957), Honor Stanford
• The United States Steel Hour (TV) - One episode: "Edward My Son" (1955), Evelyn Holt
• The Alcoa Hour (TV) - One episode: "The Black Wings" (1955), Jane Cornish
• The Green Scarf (1954), Solange Vauthier
• BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV) - Two episodes: "Tovarich" (1954), Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna; "Her Royal Highness" (1952), Princess Louise
• The Sound Barrier (1952), Susan Garthwaite
• Madeleine (1950), Madeleine Smith
• The Passionate Friends (1949), Mary Justin
• So Evil My Love (1948), Olivia Harwood
• Daybreak (1948), Frankie
• The Paradine Case (1947), Gay Keane
• Gaiety George (1946), Kathryn Davis
• The Seventh Veil (1945), Francesca
• Perfect Strangers (1945), Elena
• Ships with Wings (1942), Kay Gordon
• Danny Boy (1941), Jane Kaye
• Poison Pen (1939), Ann Rider
• Tower of London (1939), Princess - uncredited
• Ann and Harold (TV) - unknown episodes, (1938), Ann Teviot
• The Old and the Young (TV) (1938)
• Black Magic (TV) (1938), Mary Chalfont
• South Riding (1938), Midge Carne
• The Squeaker (1937), Carol Stedman
• Action for Slander (1937), Ann Daviot
• Things to Come (1936), Mary Gordon
• The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934), Phyllis Drummond
• The Water Gipsies (1932), Jane Bell
• The Ghost Train (1931), Peggy Murdock
• These Charming People (1931), Pamela Crawford
• Keepers of Youth (1931), Millicent