Editing Richard Todd (section)

===Unmade projects===
Todd was the first choice of author [[Ian Fleming]] to play [[James Bond]] in ''[[Dr. No (film)|Dr. No]]'', but a scheduling conflict gave the role to [[Sean Connery]]. In the 1960s, Todd unsuccessfully attempted to produce a film of Ian Fleming's ''[[The Diamond Smugglers]]''<ref name=caught/> and a television series based on true accounts of the [[Queen's Messenger]]s.<ref name=caught/> He was also announced for a proposed film about [[William Shakespeare]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55851326 |title=Hope tops list for popularity. |newspaper=[[The Mail (Adelaide)|The Mail]] |location=Adelaide |date=30 December 1950 |access-date=10 July 2012 |page=5 Supplement: Sunday Magazine |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

In his book ''British Film Character Actors'' (1982), Terence Pettigrew described Todd as "an actor who made the most of what he had, which could be summed up as an inability to sit still while there was a horse to leap astride, a swollen river to swim or a tree to vanish into."