Name
Robert Donat
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1905-03-18
Deathday
1958-06-09 (53 years old)
Place of Birth
Withington, Manchester, England, UK
Biography
Robert Donat (born Friedrich Robert Donat) was a star English film and stage actor. He is best remembered for his roles in The 39 Steps (1935) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), the latter which earned him a Best Actor Academy Award.
Known For
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Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with ...
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All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was where she belonged. Unqualif...
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Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a s...
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Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this ti...
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This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film cl...
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Young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor Andrew Manson arrives in Wales and take...
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In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but h...
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Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinven...
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Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. W...
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Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handso...
- 1935 The 39 Steps as Richard Hannay
- 1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Charles Edward Chipping aka 'Mr. Chips'
- 1933 The Private Life of Henry VIII as Thomas Culpeper
- 1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness as The Mandarin of Yang Cheng
- 1934 The Count of Monte Cristo as Edmond Dantes
- 1943 The Adventures of Tartu as Captain Terence Stevenson, aka Jan Tartu
- 1952 The Magic Box as William Friese-Greene
- 1938 The Citadel as Dr. Andrew Manson
- 1948 The Winslow Boy as Sir Robert Morton
- 1937 Knight Without Armour as Ainsley J. Fothergill / Peter Ouronov
- 1972 Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
- 1935 The Ghost Goes West as Murdoch Glourie / Donald Glourie
- 1945 Perfect Strangers as Robert Wilson
- 1983 Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1933 Cash as Paul Martin
- 1954 Lease of Life as Rev William Thorne
- 1947 Captain Boycott as Charles Stewart Parnell
- 1973 The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor as Self (archive footage)
- 1943 The New Lot as Actor
- 1942 The Young Mr. Pitt as William Pitt / The Earl of Chatham
- 1932 Men of Tomorrow as Julian Angell
- 1932 That Night in London as Dick Warren
- 1940 Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self (archive footage)
- 1976 That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1944 Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
- 1940 A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
- 1949 The Cure for Love as Sergeant Jack Hardacre
- 2009 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)
- 2000 A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years as Self (archive footage)
