Robert Donat
Born: 1905-03-18 in Withington, Manchester, England, UK
Died: 1958-06-09
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2009
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)
2001
- A Profile of Hitchcock: The Early Years as Self (archive footage)
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1973
- The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor as Self (archive footage)
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1958
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness as The Mandarin of Yang Cheng
1954
- Lease of Life as Rev William Thorne
1952
- The Magic Box as William Friese-Greene
1949
- The Cure for Love as Sergeant Jack Hardacre
1948
- The Winslow Boy as Sir Robert Morton
1947
- Captain Boycott as Charles Stewart Parnell
1945
- Perfect Strangers as Robert Wilson
1944
- Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
1943
- The Adventures of Tartu as Captain Terence Stevenson, aka Jan Tartu
- The New Lot as Actor
1942
- The Young Mr. Pitt as William Pitt / The Earl of Chatham
1940
- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound as Self
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self (archive footage)
1939
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Charles Edward Chipping aka 'Mr. Chips'
1938
- The Citadel as Dr. Andrew Manson
1937
- Knight Without Armour as Ainsley J. Fothergill / Peter Ouronov
1935
- The 39 Steps as Richard Hannay
- The Ghost Goes West as Murdoch Glourie / Donald Glourie
1934
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Edmond Dantes
1933
- The Private Life of Henry VIII as Thomas Culpeper
- Cash as Paul Martin
1932
- That Night in London as Dick Warren
- Men of Tomorrow as Julian Angell