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
- Band Waggon as Hobday
- Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt as Guide
1937
- Fire Over England as Don Escobal
- Thunder in the City as Dr. Plumet
- Love from a Stranger as Hobson
- 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)
- Me and Marlborough as Drunken Yokel
- The Divine Spark as Judge Fumaroli
- The Phantom Light as David Owen
- Man of the Moment as Godfrey
1934
- Red Ensign as Macleod
- Sorrell and Son as Dr. Richard Orange
- It's a Cop as Charles Murray
1933
- Friday the Thirteenth as Hugh Nicholls
- F.P.1 as Sunshine, the Photographer
- Early to Bed as Potsdam Guide
- I Was a Spy as Cnockhaert
- This Acting Business as Milton Stafford
1932
- Number Seventeen as Nora's Escort Brant
- Money for Nothing as Hotel Manager
- Rome Express as Poole
- Fires of Fate as Sir William Royden
1931
- 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)
- The Bells as Mathias
- Uneasy Virtue as Burglar
1930
- Murder! as Ion Stewart
- Elstree Calling as Himself / Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew
- Two Worlds as Mendel
- Almost a Honeymoon as Charles, the butler
- Loose Ends as Winton Penner
- The Night Porter as George, the Night Porter
- Song of Soho as Nobby
- All Riot on the Western Front
- Spanish Eyes as Mascoso
- Star Impersonations as George Arliss
- We Take Off Our Hats as 'erb
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