Michael Todd (real name Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen) (June 22, 1909 - March 22, 1958) was an American film producer who is best known for his production of Around the World in Eighty Days in 1956, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Todd married actress Joan Blondell in 1947; they divorced in 1950. He married again to actress Elizabeth Taylor on February 2, 1957, and they had a daughter, Elizabeth Frances (Liza) Todd , who was born on August 6, 1957.
Todd died in an airplane crash in New Mexico in 1958.
