Ann Todd
1907–1993 · British actress
Dorothy Ann Todd was an English film, television and stage actress who achieved international fame when she starred in The Seventh Veil (1945). From 1949 to 1957 she was married to David Lean who directed her in The Passionate Friends (1949), Madeleine (1950), and The Sound Barrier (1952). She was a member of The Old Vic theatre company and in 1957 starred in a Broadway play. In her later years she wrote, produced and directed travel documentaries.
Ann Todd, in order
- 1931 Keepers of Youth: acted · directed by Thomas Bentley
- 1931 The Ghost Train: acted · directed by Walter Forde
- 1932 The Water Gipsies: acted · directed by Maurice Elvey
- 1934 The Return of Bulldog Drummond: acted · directed by Walter Summers
- 1936 Things to Come: acted · directed by William Cameron Menzies
- 1937 Action for Slander: acted · directed by Tim Whelan
- 1938 Ann and Harold (TV series): acted
- 1938 South Riding: acted · directed by Victor Saville
- 1938 Zaza: acted · directed by George Cukor
- 1939 Destry Rides Again: acted · directed by George Marshall
- 1939 Poison Pen: acted · directed by Paul L. Stein
- 1940 Brigham Young: acted · directed by Henry Hathaway
- 1945 Perfect Strangers: acted · directed by Alexander Korda
- 1945 The Seventh Veil: acted · directed by Compton Bennett
- 1947 The Paradine Case: acted · directed by Alfred Hitchcock · critics 71%, audiences 50% · streaming on Fawesome
- 1948 Daybreak: acted · directed by Compton Bennett
- 1948 So Evil My Love: acted · directed by Lewis Allen
- 1949 The Passionate Friends: acted · directed by David Lean · streaming on YouTube (free), Plex, Prime Video (free)
- 1950 Madeleine: acted · directed by David Lean · streaming on Criterion Channel, YouTube (free), Plex
- 1952 The Sound Barrier: acted · directed by David Lean · critics 77%, audiences 59% · streaming on fuboTV, Kanopy
- 1957 Time Without Pity: acted · directed by Joseph Losey
- 1960 The Snows of Kilimanjaro (TV movie): acted · directed by John Frankenheimer
- 1961 Taste of Fear: acted · directed by Seth Holt
- 1962 The Son of Captain Blood: acted · directed by Tulio Demicheli
- 1965 Ninety Degrees in the Shade: acted · directed by Jiří Weiss
- 1972 The Fiend: acted · directed by Robert Hartford-Davis
- 1979 The Human Factor: acted · directed by Otto Preminger