Donald Calthrop
Born: 1888-04-11 in London, England, UK
Died: 1940-07-15
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
1941
- Major Barbara as Peter Shirley
1940
- Let George Do It! as Frederick Strickland
- Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt as Guide
- Band Waggon as Hobday
1937
- Fire Over England as Don Escobal
- Love from a Stranger as Hobson
- Thunder in the City as Dr. Plumet
- Café Colette as Nick
1936
- The Man Who Changed His Mind as Clayton
- The Man Behind the Mask as Dr. Harold E. Walpole
- Broken Blossoms as Old Chinaman
1935
- Scrooge as Bob Cratchit
- The Clairvoyant as Derelict (uncredited)
- Man of the Moment as Godfrey
- The Phantom Light as David Owen
- Me and Marlborough as Drunken Yokel
- The Divine Spark as Judge Fumaroli
1934
- It's a Cop as Charles Murray
- Red Ensign as Macleod
- Sorrell and Son as Dr. Richard Orange
1933
- I Was a Spy as Cnockhaert
- Friday the Thirteenth as Hugh Nicholls
- F.P.1 as Sunshine, the Photographer
- Early to Bed as Potsdam Guide
- This Acting Business as Milton Stafford
1932
- Number Seventeen as Nora's Escort Brant
- Fires of Fate as Sir William Royden
- Rome Express as Poole
- Money for Nothing as Hotel Manager
1931
- Uneasy Virtue as Burglar
- The Bells as Mathias
- The Ghost Train as Saul Hodgkin
- Potiphar's Wife as Counsel for Defense
- Cape Forlorn as Parson
- Many Waters as Compton Hardcastle
- Industrial Britain as Self - Commentator (uncredited)
1930
- Murder! as Ion Stewart
- Star Impersonations as George Arliss
- Elstree Calling as Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew
- We Take Off Our Hats as 'erb
- All Riot on the Western Front
- The Night Porter as George, the Night Porter
- Two Worlds as Mendel
- Song of Soho as Nobby
- Loose Ends as Winton Penner
- Almost a Honeymoon as Charles, the butler
- Spanish Eyes as Mascoso
1929
- Blackmail as Tracy
- Atlantic as Pointer
- The Clue of the New Pin as Yeh Ling
- Up the Poll as The Candidate
1928
- Shooting Stars as Andy Wilkes
1918
- Nelson as Horatio Nelson
- Nelson; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero as Horatio Nelson
1917
- Masks and Faces as Lovell