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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1888-04-11 (137 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Donald Calthrop

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop (11 April 1888 – 15 July 1940) was an English stage and film actor.

Calthrop made his first stage appearance at eighteen years of age. His first film was The Gay Lord Quex released in 1917. He starred as the title character in the successful musical The Boy in the same year. He then appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1940, including five films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

He died in Eton, Berkshire from a heart attack while he was filming Major Barbara (1941).

Known For

Acting

1941

Major Barbara as Peter Shirley

1940

Let George Do It! as Frederick Strickland
Band Waggon as Hobday

1937

Fire Over England as Don Escobal
Thunder in the City as Dr. Plumet

1936

The Man Behind the Mask as Dr. Harold E. Walpole
Broken Blossoms as Old Chinaman

1935

Scrooge as Bob Cratchit
The Phantom Light as David Owen
Me and Marlborough as Drunken Yokel
The Divine Spark as Judge Fumaroli
The Clairvoyant as Derelict (uncredited)

1934

Red Ensign as Macleod
Sorrell and Son as Dr. Richard Orange
It's a Cop as Charles Murray

1933

Early to Bed as Potsdam Guide
I Was a Spy as Cnockhaert
F.P.1 as Sunshine, the Photographer
This Acting Business as Milton Stafford
Friday the Thirteenth as Hugh Nicholls

1932

Number Seventeen as Nora's Escort Brant
Rome Express as Poole
Fires of Fate as Sir William Royden
Money for Nothing as Hotel Manager

1931

Industrial Britain as Self - Commentator (uncredited)
Cape Forlorn as Parson
The Ghost Train as Saul Hodgkin
The Bells as Mathias
Potiphar's Wife as Counsel for Defense
Many Waters as Compton Hardcastle
Uneasy Virtue as Burglar

1930

Murder! as Ion Stewart
Loose Ends as Winton Penner
Elstree Calling as Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew
The Night Porter as George, the Night Porter
Almost a Honeymoon as Charles, the butler
Spanish Eyes as Mascoso
Song of Soho as Nobby
Two Worlds as Mendel
Star Impersonations as George Arliss

1929

Blackmail as Tracy
Up the Poll as The Candidate
Atlantic as Pointer

1928

Shooting Stars as Andy Wilkes

1918

Nelson as Horatio Nelson

1917

Masks and Faces as Lovell